WebCT Support Pages
Mac OS X and Mac OS9 Software and Utilities
Links
Unit Links
Capturing and Processing
Digital Imagery
Museums and Galleries
General Writing Resources
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
This software makes web albums of your digital images.
http://www.datadosen.se/jalbum/install.htm - click here to download software
http://jalbum.net/usermanual.jsp - click here to view user manual
http://jalbum.net/tutorials.jsp - click here to view tutorials
* Recommended - Stuffit Standard Edition (demo version)
http://www.stuffit.com/mac/standard/index.html
ZipIt - Create and expand WebCT-friendly Zip files (Mac) shareware
WinZip - Create and expand WebCT-friendly Zip files (Win) shareware
Links for FINA
130
This is a good website for artists working in wood,
metals, mixed
media, plastics, paper
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Sculptors
Unit 1 Introduction
Willem de Kooning
http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?G=9&aid=9740
Unit
2 Wood
Contemporary Wood Arts (many
links)
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Sculptors/Wood
Willem de Kooning
http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?G=9&aid=9740
Contemporary
Northwest Coast Native Art
http://www.coastalarts.net/site/totem/index.html
Richard Deacon
http://www.sculpture.org.uk/image/525016521067
Unit 3 Metal
Links to artists working with metal
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Sculptors/Metals
Unit 4 Plastics
Links to artists working with plastics
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Sculptors/Plastics/
http://www.sculpture.org.uk/image/525016521036
Unit 5 Paper
Links to artists who use paper in their work.
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Sculptors/Paper
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Sculptors/Mixed_Media
Making paper by hand (illustrated)
http://www.tappi.org/paperu/art_class/makingPaper.htm
Unit 6 Fibres
An Introduction to Fibres
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/gernot/skin/fiber_index.html
Centre for Canadian Fashion and
Design
Information resource on textile fabrics and fashion design.
Complete
list and descriptions of natural fibers
http://www.ntgi.net/ICCF&D/plant.htm
Fiber and Fabric links site
http://www.42explore.com/fibers.htm
Unit
7 Particles
Unit 8 Stone
Links to artists who us stone.
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Sculptors/Stone
Stephen Cox
http://www.sculpture.org.uk/image/000000100065
Glynn Williams
http://www.sculpture.org.uk/image/324620110505
Unit 9 Earth
Earthworks and Site Art Study
Images
http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/art107/EarthworksStudyImages.htm
These slides illustrate different approaches of artists
working from
the nature in the degree of realism or abstraction
(i.e.
essentialization and reduction) employed in expressing the
human
figure.
http://www.smcm.edu/users/lnscheer/lecture%20web%20pages/102natderiv/deriv.html
Unit
10 Liquid
Sand and Ice
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture/Sculptors/Sand_and_Ice
Archie Held (Water
Sculpture)
http://modernsculpture.com/held.ph
Unit 11 Space
Richard Deacon
http://www.sculpture.org.uk/image/525016521067
Sculptor
Links
Archive site of British
Sculptors
http://www.sculpture.org.uk/archive/
Historical Sculptors Links
http://www.sculpture.org/ - select the Educational Resources link – then the
Historical Sculptors link
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.