Here are some interesting and useful URLs (web addresses).
I will be adding to this list from time to time, so you may want
to visit occasionally. If you find some valuable web resources
related to communication studies, please let me know so I can
further develop this resource. Just click on the addresses or
the logo and you will go directly to the page you wish to review.
Page Topics:
Interactive
Instructional
Sites
Research Tools
Writing Tools
Critical Tools
Interactive
Instructional Sites
Web Log: Explanation, Goals and
Assignment
The web log or "blog" assignment helps you
experience the blogging process. A blog is a kind of online
journal or column about a specific topic or issue that interests
you. The blog allows you to speak your mind to others about what
you feel is important. In doing so, you present yourself to the
world in particular ways that often merit some analysis after you have
created a body of writing. To explore the assignment, click on
the Blogger logo below.
Deep Poster: Model and Assignment
The "deep poster" is a tool for making
presentations of substantial content online. Using both internal
and
external links, well-designed deep posters
provide rich and dynamic information on a specific topic, issue, or
concern. Click the cartoon below to
see a model deep poster.
The Thirty Second Candidate
The Thirty Second Candidate is an interactive teaching unit from
the Public Broadcasting System. It is a fascinating tutorial in
how the 30 second spot came into existence, and how the concept has
developed over time. The site allows you to "construct" a spot of your
own. This site is worth visiting for insight into the practice of
campaign message making.
http://www.pbs.org/30secondcandidate/
Research Tools
Communication Theories Pod Casts
These are brief introductions to communication theories of note created
by students in CST 301 Theories of Communication taught by Dr. Rick
Rodrick. These can provide a useful overview, but I caution you
in citing these as in any way authoritative. Treat them as you
would something from Wikipedia.
CSUS Information Competence Page
(Communication
Studies Exercises)
If you have not done these exercises
before,
and you are in ComS 4 Public Speaking or ComS 5 The
Communication Experience, you are required
to complete the tutorial. When you
do
the exercises,
make sure you identify me as your
instructor
using the drop menu so that your responses will be
automatically emailed to me.
Otherwise,
you will not receive proper credit for your work.
http://library.csus.edu/services/inst/ICES/infocomp/index.htm
This site provides a useful abstract
of
most popular internet search engines. You get a
quick and handy reference regarding how
to structure the best searches using each.
http://www.notess.com/search/
This site provides handy reviews of the best search engines,
classified by user need or purposes. It
also includes great tips on how to search the web most
effectively
and how to evaluate material you
find there. Take a look.
http://www.searchiq.com/
Here you can find an explanation of what the most popular search
engines do, and how they do it. All
search engines are not created equal! Here you can find
out which ones will work best for you.
http://searchenginewatch.com/links/major.html
Internet Detective: An interactive tutorial
on evaluating the quality of Internet resources
Not everything on the internet is
necessarily
accurate or authoritative. If you are doing research using the
web,
you must assess the material you find there--this is a job you
typically
don't have to do using reference material in
a university library. I recommend
you take a few minutes and work through the tutorials here. This
site is
well designed and easy to use.
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
Writing Tools
APA (American Psychological Association) is
most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This
resource, revised according to the 5th edition of the
APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research
papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Critical Tools
Index to and growing database of
5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public
speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews,
other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
(Temporarily taken down.)
A cultural theory and new media literacy Web site run by Dougie
Bicket at SUNY Geneseo. This site is an evolving resource for
critical
study of mediated messages primarily from a post-modern
perspective.
Although a bit odd-ball in structure and style, it is a provocative and
potentially useful site--especially for those interested in
visual/mediated
communication.
The aim of SIMILE is to provide a venue for scholarly articles
which will bridge the subject areas of information literacy and media
literacy.
The journal is wide-ranging in topics from analysis of popular culture
(e.g.
Homer Simpson explains our postmodern identity crisis, whether we like
it or not: Media literacy after "The Simpsons") to studies
in
instructional communication (Storied
lives, dialog - retro-reflections: Melding Critical Multicultural
Education
and Critical Race Theory for pedagogical transformation). This
is an interesting journal of high quality research.