WebCT Support Pages
Unit Links
Online Colour Theories and Tools
Capturing and Processing
Digital Imagery
Museums and Galleries
General Writing Resources
Whiteboard Overview
http://courseware.utoronto.ca/webct/help/whiteboard/whiteboard.html
The Whiteboard allows groups of users to share a common, dynamic graphical palette in real-time. The current toolkit includes many of the functions found in standalone drawing tools, including the ability to insert text and graphics, choose fonts and colours, fill and un-fill objects, move objects, and modify them. This is a useful tool for online group discussions where diagrams are needed.
Browser Zone
Browsers come and browsers go, visit the Browser Zone
frequently to find out what browsers have been tested by WebCT and are
supported.
This page includes Browser Links, Browser Plugins and a few
others
http://www.webct.com/drc_vista/viewpage?name=ask_drc_browser_zone
Ask Dr. C for Students
Ask Dr. C is a user forum, moderated by a group of
experienced WebCT users. Ask Dr. C is here to provide students with help using
WebCT, not for answering homework
questions.
http://www.webct.com/ask_drc/viewpage?name=ask_drc_student
WebCT Browser Tune-up
The browser tune-up will ensure
that you are using a supported browser. It includes step-by-step instructions to
make sure your browser settings are optimized for the best possible WebCT
experience.
http://www.webct.com/quickstart/viewpage?name=exchange_browser_tuneup
Click on the image to see details
with large areas of related (analagous) colours)
http://home.att.net/~s.a.joyce/docs/monet.htm
Picasso
http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/
Van Gogh - Use of complementary colour: an extensive site
Matiss - Use of complementary colours
http://www.musee-matisse-nice.org/anglais/index3.html
Bonnard - Bonnard's use of complementary colour
http://www.nga.gov.au/Bonnard/
Picasso - Picasso's 1905 use of
complementaries
http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/
Howard Hodgkin - Intensely coloured paintings frequently using
complementaries
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/honigman/honigman11-24-03.asp
Ron Kitaj
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/K/kitaj/ifnotnot.jpg.html
Intensely coloured paintings using
pairs of complementaries and other colour structures
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/honigman/honigman11-24-03.asp
Van Gogh - try using your wheel to see Van Gogh's use of colour
structures
Bonnard - Bonnard's use of Colour structures
http://www.nga.gov.au/Bonnard/
Frank Stella
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_lg_148_1.html
Monet - Monet's use of chromatic greys and
whites
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/monet/rouen/
Therese Oulton - use of Chromatic Greys and Whites
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/20years/oulton.htm
Matisse – Matisse’ use of greys as contrasts for more intense
colours
http://www.abcgallery.com/M/matisse/matisse70.html
Leon Kossoff
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=20758&searchid=7251&tabview=image
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=20513&searchid=4932&tabview=image
http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartdetail.asp?aid=6467&wid=423878671&page=4&group=&max_tn_page=
Bonnard - Example of use of Discords
http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000067625.html
Elizabeth Murray
Large abstract paintings that use some
discords
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/spotlite/news/110303.htm
Andy Warhol - Try your own online discord version of
"Marilyn"
http://webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html
Wayne Thiebaud
Frank Auerbach - Urban landscapes
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/auerbach_frank.html
Wayne Thiebaud - Intense coloured landscapes
http://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/ThiebaudW/ThiebaudWFile/ThiebaudWPics/WThiebaud5.html
Elizabeth
Blackadder - Closely observed paintings of
flowers
Richard Diebenkorn -
urban landscapes
http://www.thomastallis.greenwich.sch.uk/tallis/departments/hoa/lesson101.jpg
David Bomberg
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=1239&searchid=5157&tabview=image
Colour in design
http://www.colormatters.com/appmatters.html
colour in
food
http://www.colormatters.com/accident.html
Colour Theory
http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs092/VA10/HTML/start.html
The Colour Wheel
http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html
Colour Site - Lots of Resources
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html
Color Contrast and Dimension
http://www.poynterextra.org/cp/index.html
Color Contrast and Dimension
http://www.poynterextra.org/cp/index.html
Top Ten Digital Photography Tips
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/digi_photo_tips.html
Digital Imaging Resources
http://idea.uwosh.edu/nick/digitalimaging.htm
MUSEUMS
and GALLERIES
The
Getty Museum
Canadian
Centre for Architecture
Canadian
Museum of Civilization
List of
Museums in the United States on the Web
A
good starting point for finding Museums and Cultural Resources on the Web, by
country.
Royal
Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
The Virtual
Library Another Museum Directory
World Wide Virtual Galleries
online
http://vlmp.museophile.com/galleries.html
An online archive of papers in social
sciences and new technologies.
Discussion group on art and the brain,
based at Boston University.
Artbrain.org has been created to provide
a structure through and upon which artists, art historians, writers, architects
who are tethering their practices to issues which are also of interest to
neuroscientists can publish their work.
Members of the ArtCognition association
are interested in exploring the relations between artistic theory and practice
and cognitive science. They organize meetings, write texts and take part in
events that involve issues of art and cognition.
The International Center for
Transdisciplinary Research (CIRET) is a non-profit organization, located in
Paris and founded in 1987. The aim of our organization is to develop research in
a new scientific and cultural approach - the transdisciplinarity - whose aim is
to lay bare the nature and characteristics of the flow of information
circulating between the various branches of knowledge.
Multi-authored digital extravaganza,
curated by the Guggenheim. A must.
Project Zero is a Harvard University
program whose mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and
creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the
individual and institutional levels.
A
tutorial site to demonstrate how visual information is used in art, devised by
John H. Krantz.
The following Web resources may be useful to you as you work through your Course. (Note that links that are external to OLA open in a new window.)
General Writing
Resources
UBC Writers' Workshop (http://www.writingcentre.ubc.ca/workshop/index.html) offers you guidance on essay writing. In
the Writer's Toolbox, you can learn about different parts of the essay and
topics related to the essay. In many cases, student writing samples along with
instructor comments are included. The Writers' Workbench allows you to submit
short samples of your work for feedback from online writing
tutors.
Paradigm Online Writing Assistant (http://www.powa.org/) provides you with guided exercises in the following areas: discovering what to write; organizing, revising, and editing your writing; as well as writing different types of essays.
The University of Illinois Writers Workshop (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/index.htm) offers you tips and techniques to improve your writing. The grammar handbook explains and provides examples for each part of speech. You can also find writers' resources for business and technical communication as well as resources for English as a second language.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/) provides over 130 printer-friendly instructional handouts organized into the areas of general writing concerns, English as a second language, grammar, spelling and punctuation, research/documenting sources, and professional writing.
Grammar, Style and
Usage
A Writer's Reference: Interactive Exercises (http://bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/exercises/) is developed by the publishers of your course textbook. These additional exercises correspond to the sections in your handbook exercises and use the same categories (eg. grammatical sentences) and codes (eg. G1-1). While some of the questions are repeats of those in your book, there are a number of new questions as well. Work through these exercises if you think you need some extra practice. This site uses Macromedia Shockwave. If you don't have it installed, you can dowload it for free at the Macromedia Download Center.
Punctuation from the University of Ottawa (http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/punct.html) offers a comprehensive overview of punctuation rules. Examples of correct and incorrect usage for each type of punctuation are provided along with additional exercises.
Guide to Grammar & Writing (http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/) covers common problems in writing. You also have an option to submit a grammar or usage question. Take a look at the interactive quizzes if you require more help with grammar.
Cliché Finder (http://www.westegg.com/cliche/) will help you avoid using too many cliché’s in your writing. This site indexes over 3,300 cliché’s and explains what a cliché’s.
The Elements of Style (http://www.bartleby.com/141/ ) written by William Strunk, Jr., in 1918 and later revised by E.B. White (author of the ever-popular children's classic, Charlotte's Web), is provided online, with concise rules of usage and composition and lists of many commonly misused and misspelled words. The writing is elegant; splendid examples are provided in this original and still relevant book.
Common Errors in English (http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/) is a fairly comprehensive list of common English errors along with descriptions as to the reason for the error. If you get confused between the difference between words such as your and you're, dying and dyeing or compliment and complement, then take a look at this site to find out the answer.
Dictionaries and
Thesauruses
Wordsmyth Thesaurus Dictionary (http://www.wordsmyth.net/searches.html ) is a user-friendly resource that provides you with a list of definitions for your selected word, organized by usage. You are provided with a list of definitions, an example of how the word can be used in a sentence for each type of usage, as well as hyperlinked synonyms and similar words and phrases for each definition.
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus (1995 edition) (http://www.bartleby.com/62/) lists hyperlinked synonyms for each word you choose divided into the parts of speech.
Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus (http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/index.html) is an unusual thesaurus that allows you to visualize the relationship between words in an interactive and graphical way by presenting the relationships between words in the form of a map. The site uses Java, and you may find it slow to load.
yourdictionary.com (http://www.yourdictionary.com/
) is a portal for language products with more than 1800 dictionaries in 250
languages. The featured English dictionary is the Merriam-Webster Collegiate
Dictionary. You can read your chosen word's definition, function, date of
origin, and hyperlinked synonyms. You can also search through the specialty
dictionaries on topics ranging from accounting to
publishing.
