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Better Googling May 23, 2011, 8:00 am By George Williams One of the greatest strengths of the world’s most widely used Internet search engine is also one of its greatest weaknesses: comprehensiveness. For example, a search using the keyword poverty results in almost 90,000,000 results, which is far too many for any individual person to …
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Just returned from this year's THATCamp at CHNM, and I have to say--wow. I'm exhausted but oddly energized, as are most other campers (if the twitter stream is to be believed!). For those who've never been to a THATCamp, you will find Alexandra Cartert's excellent post on her experience enlightening. I, too, arrived early for …
Research 1: Aladin, Google Preview, CLS, Bookbag from T. Howe on Vimeo. Research 2: Articles & Databases, Literature Resource Center, Content Types, Marked Lists, Citation Tools from T. Howe on Vimeo. Research 3: Following the Cheese from T. Howe on Vimeo.
Using our Wiki from T. Howe on Vimeo.
MLA Formatting with Microsoft Works from T. Howe on Vimeo.
Improve Your Writing with Find/Replace from T. Howe on Vimeo.
http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf Invigorating the lecture on Prezi
http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf Anatomy of a film: Developing student thinking through collaborative analysis on Prezi
"The Silent Era." Movies in American History (Forthcoming, 2011) The silent film era extends from the late nineteenth century, with the earliest work by the Lumière Brothers in France and Edison in America, into the early 1930s, when silent film gave way to “talkies.” However, most scholars situate the silent era in America during the …
"City Lights." Movies in American History (Forthcoming, 2011) At the conclusion of City Lights (United Artists, 1931), the Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) looks wistfully at the Flower Girl (Virginia Cherrill) and asserts, with the hopeful inflection of a question, “You can see now?” She replies, “Yes, I can see now,” and it seems as if the …
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