Institute for Distributed Creativity
iDC on Facebook.
An international network of advanced creative production, research, events, and documentation. Conferences focus on new media learning; its forum is for new media researchers ranging from media artists, urbanists, librarians, scientists, designers, and educators.
Academic Commons
A community of educators who are interested in two interlocking questions: how do creative uses of new technology support the project of liberal education, and, perhaps more interestingly, how do they force us to re-think what it means to be liberally educated?
Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning
CCNMTL was founded at Columbia University in 1999 to enhance teaching and learning through the purposeful use of new media.
The World Simulation
A radical experiment in learning at Kansas State University, that was created in a fit of frustration with the large lecture hall format.
Digital Media Pedagogy
a mindmeister map by Trebor Scholz
The Machine is Using Us, and
A Vision of Students Today
Two videos by Michael Wesch
Media Commons
A network in which scholars, students, and other interested members of the public can help to shift the focus of scholarship back to the circulation of discourse.
Rhizome: New Media Art
Rhizome is dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.
Original WWW Proposal
W3C (governing consortium)
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community working together to develop Web standards. Led by WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee, its mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.
HTML/CSS — what is it?
HTML and CSS are core technologies for building Web pages. HTML provides the “structure” of the page. CSS describes the display.
W3 Schools Tutorials
Elizabeth Castro (tutorials)
CSS Examples (Zen Garden)
Mimo y Mima (tutorials)
Mimo y Mima (part 2)
Eric Meyer (CSS examples)
Beautiful CSS (forum)
Visual Quickstart Guide /Photoshop for Windows & Macintosh (Peachpit Press)
A visual synopsis. Easy to follow. Not too much detail.
These are more in-depth:
Adobe Photoshop One-on-One
by Deke McClelland.
Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers
by Martin Evening.
These are specialized but highly useful:
Mastering Digital Black and White
by Amadou Diallo.
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
by John Beardsworth
Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center
ASMP Copyright FAQ & Tutorials
Creative Commons (definition)
Creative Commons (licenses)
Lawrence Lessig
A Professor of Law at Stanford, focusing on law and technology as it affects copyright.
The Opte Project
The Internet Mapping Project
Lumeta Network Visualizations
Lynda.com
Thousands of video tutorials.
Adobe for Educators
Adobe Press (IT Network)
Adobe Press Chapters & Articles (free online learning examples)
Safari Books Online
Visual Quickstart Guide Series
Adobe TV (free tutorials)
Adobe Communities (aggregator)
Final Cut (training and resources)
Final Cut Express (tutorials)
Final Cut Express Apple Forum
O’Reilly Forums
O’Reilly Academic Solutions
Wikipedia: A definition.
The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for photographers.
Universal Digital Imaging Guidelines
Archiving: DAM—The Art of Archiving
Wikipedia
Fact Monster
How PCs work
Digital Video Aspect Ratios
Introduction to Computers from URI
Part A
Part B
Part C
Part D
Part E
Part F
Part G
Part H