You won’t get a person’s attention by copying from a book to a chalkboard. — Mike Roberts (Educom Vice President)
The Internet makes it easy for any person to find instruction on any subject. But the most important thing we can learn from the Internet is that we must evaluate all information we read, watch, or hear, regardless of where it is. It’s not difficult. “Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.”
- Collegium for Research in Interactive Technologies
- The Internet and computers provide—require—a new way of looking at documents and at the world. Cooperative Computing in the 1990s and Computers, Telecommunications, and Western Culture. From the World Conference on Computers in Education, Birmingham, England, 1995.
- Evaluating Information
- Some things on the net are true, some things are not, and many are both. If you want to believe impossible things before breakfast, however, you can do so just as easily off the net as on the net. The best evaluation techniques will work for any information, not just Internet information. We have never been able to trust the printed word.
- Notes on Prohibition
- These are notes that I took while researching a “recreational drugs” comic book. These books also informed all of the writing that I have done for Strange Bedfellows and the Prohibition archive.
More Information
- The Cartoon Guide to the Computer•
- The author of “The Cartoon History of the Universe” has done it again with the computer.There’s too much emphasis on computer programming (he includes a page on each of the major BASIC language commands) but most of the information is either about the history of computers or the heart of what makes computers tick. You don’t need this book to switch your computer on. But if you’d like a better understanding of why some things always happen, such as why the numbers 256, 512, and 1024 keep popping up, you’ll not find a more entertaining way to learn.
- CensorWare
- Overview of the antics of web page blockers. Find out which net blocker won’t let you view the N.O.W. web page, and which blocker won’t let you view the U.S. constitution.
- Computer Mediated Communication
- Monthly magazine looking into issues of CMC and Internet culture in general. When in doubt, blame it on technology.
- Ethics Updates
- A site designed for use by ethics instructors and students, providing updates on popular and professional literature relating to ethics.
- How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
- Absolutely brilliant, and what I’ve been trying to say for years: “Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. For some reason we turn off this natural scepticism when we see things in any medium which require a lot of work or resources—like newspapers, television or granite. What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust, but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV.”
- Success Stories
- A project to collect, integrate, and broadcast examples of the successful use of new information and communication technologies in education. Doesn’t look like it’s been updated in years.
- Thinking Thru Linking
- “Students should be exposed to learning experiences that connect to prior knowledge, resonate with personal meaning, create links to other content areas, extend their cognitive schema, and prompt the construction of new meaning. It’s nice if they push in their chairs when they leave class, too.”
- Understanding Comics•
- Everyone who is interested in comics as an artform or as a medium of information exchange should read this book. You’ll have fun just leafing through it reading the various chapters.
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- Walkerville Reader
- Cerebus the Gopher
- FireBlade Coffeehouse
- Highland Games
- Mimsy
- Neon Alley
- Tutorials
- Your Children
- AppleScript Basics
- Breaking In to Mac OS X
- Carnival of HTML
- CSS
- Easy Web Design
- Education
- History of the Internet
- HTTP headers
- JavaScript for Beginners
- MySQL for Other Applications
- Negative Space Spaced Out
- Perls Before Swine
- Persistence of Text
- PHP: Hot Pages
- PowerShift
- PyTown
- Recommended Reading
- Simple Photorealism
- Software Select
- Evaluating Information
- Gender Neutral Instructions
- Strange Bedfellows
- Jerry Stratton
- Search Negative Space
- Elder Pages
