FYS G114 Reality and the Americas McCarthy Spring 2013
Websites that we will use in computer lab, and other helpful links:
Main websites:
Reality and the Americas (FYS G114) webpage, Spring 2013:
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/meesh_mccarthy/G114_web_S13.htm
Reality and the Americas (FYS G114) wikispace:
http://fys114g-mccarthy.wikispaces.umb.edu
Academic Support Programs, UMass Boston (Meesh's office, where to go to get tutoring, etc.):
http://www.academicsupport.umb.edu/
UMass Boston
Libraries, online dictionaries, style guides, and writing labs:
FYS G114's wikispace at the Healey Library (this is the wiki that Janet built for us)
http://healeylibrary.wikispaces.com/FYS+G114+Reality+in+the+Americas
Healey Library online
Healey Library's Information Literacy Tutorial
http://umb.libguides.com/index.php?gid=1219
Internet Public Library
Librarians' Internet Index
The Online Books Page
digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Oxford English Dictionary On-line
Merriam-Webster OnLine
The Elements of Style
Diana Hacker's A Pocket Style Manual's documenting sources webpage
Andrea Lunsford's Easy Writer's documenting sources webpage
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/easywriter3e/docsource/default.asp
OWL (On-line Writing Lab at Purdue U.)
Websites associated with course authors (not necessarily the authors' official websites):
El sitio de Guaman Poma/The Guaman Poma Website (includes a facsimile of Poma's letter, from Det Kongeliege Bibliotek, and translations in English and Español)
http://www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/es/frontpage.htm
Media Education Foundation (for more on Sut Jhally's video)
Sherry Turkle's personal website at MIT
MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society
web.mit.edu/sts/index-css.html
which includes MIT Initiative on Technology and Self (which Turkle founded and directs)
Charles C. Mann's webpage
edtechnot's Neil Postman page
www.edtechnot.com/notpostman.html
Donna Haraway's "The Cyborg Manifesto"
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
The same document at Haraway's page at The European Graduate School
http://www.egs.edu/faculty/haraway/haraway-a-cyborg-manifesto.html
Other resources needed during our computer labs:
Unesco World Heritage Sites--Potosí
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=420
"History echoes in the mines of Potosi" BBC Online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3740134.stm
Casa Nacional de Moneda
especialmente la pagina "Guía del Museo"
http://www.bolivian.com/cnm/indexm.html
"The High Place: Potosi" from Common-Place
http://www.common-place.org/vol-03/no-04/potosi/
Calendar Zone
Today's Calendar and Clock Page
Calendars through the Ages
Sciences and Studies [glossary]
phrontistery.info/sciences.html
Voice of the Shuttle
Netiquette Core Rules
www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html
Other websites/pages of
interest:
Beth Teitell's "Connected, Exhausted" (Boston Globe article)
Lisa Graves's "FOX to Be Fined by FCC..." [also NBC] (from PR Watch)
Seth Stevenson's "There Are 12 Kinds of Ads in the World: Resist Them All" (from Slate)
http://www.slate.com/id/2170872/
A direct link to the video version is here
http://www.slatev.com/video/ad-report-card-the-12-master-formats/
MIT Western Hemisphere Project [sometimes a broken link]
MIT Museum
--direct link to directions to the museum: http://web.mit.edu/museum/visiting/directions.html
--link to Google map of the area, which includes Central and Kendall T locations (see the tiny blue M symbols): http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=265+mass+ave+cambridge+ma&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.945679,72.070313&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=42.365171,-71.098194&spn=0.014808,0.028925&om=1
Making of America (a digital library)