PUBLIC MARKS with tags culture & tools

The Italian podcast on the Italian language by Scuola Leonardo da Vinci. Together with our teachers, we have thought of a format for the Italian language, to learn words, expressions, and idioms and to practice listening and pronunciation. On "Italiano ON-Air" you can hear dialogue on a topical or cultural topic, and sometimes our students will be protagonists too!

Film professors can copy snippets from DVDs for educational compilations.

links to knowledge sharing or knowledge management site; larger site is most comprehensive listing of web2.0 sites I have seen, organized into many categories; blogger is from Netherlands

The site poses problems in lateral or logical thinking, from easy to hard, with both hints and answers. Great party conversation and something kids will like.

another social bookmarking site to find books to read like the ones you know, in genres you prefer, enjoyed by other readers with your tastes; it's one of the fun features of Amazon.com, now with whole sites for the purpose

business and technology for media artists; many interesting perspectives and tech histories

by Raqs Media Collective / September 2001; keywords not usually used by folks in literature and film, yet they will want to enter the fora where these ideas have a formative influence

again, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com

Metacritic is a usefully organized site, providing tips on what you might like to do.

a librarian teaches you about the dark web; originally written 2001, updated Oct. 2006

tell your favorite song, hear more like it; site learns your tastes

a radio listening site: schedule listings for thousands of public radio stations and programs around the world

tips and links for lots of aspects of the media, both print and visual

ongoing fiction sites that readers can contribute chapters to

how to create hotspots with popup notes on Flickr. Very useful for image analysis and assignment requiring students to comment on social aspects or formal aspects of image; or to formally critique them.

blog with news and good writing

many full text papers available from visualnathropology.net

portal to essays, museums, art work web reproductions

perhaps an improvement over Rotten Tomatoes, also gives links to blogs that dealt with a given film; worth a try

by a teacher, great handout for students on how to analyze a film sequence

major ejournal for field

lots of ways to visualized processes

documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US

one of the best sources for audio documentaries; here also are many how-to sessions