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

http://www.umb.edu/

 

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

http://www.lib.umb.edu/

 

Healey Library's Information Literacy Tutorial

http://umb.libguides.com/index.php?gid=1219

 

Internet Public Library

www.ipl.org/

 

Librarians' Internet Index

http://www.lii.org/

 

The Online Books Page

digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

 

Oxford English Dictionary On-line

http://www.oed.com/

 

Merriam-Webster OnLine

www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

  

The Elements of Style

www.bartleby.com/141/

 

Diana Hacker's A Pocket Style Manual's documenting sources webpage

www.dianahacker.com/resdoc

 

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.)

owl.english.purdue.edu/

 

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)

www.mediaed.org/

 

Sherry Turkle's personal website at MIT

web.mit.edu/sturkle/www

 

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)

web.mit.edu/sturkle/techself

 

Charles C. Mann's webpage

http://www.charlesmann.org/

 

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

http://www.bolivian.com/cnm

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

http://www.calendarzone.com/

 

Today's Calendar and Clock Page

www.ecben.net/calendar.shtml

 

Calendars through the Ages

webexhibits.org/calendars/

 

Sciences and Studies [glossary]

phrontistery.info/sciences.html

 

Voice of the Shuttle

vos.ucsb.edu/

 

Netiquette Core Rules

www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

 

 

Other websites/pages of interest:

 

Beth Teitell's "Connected, Exhausted" (Boston Globe article)

http://articles.boston.com/2011-03-27/lifestyle/29353142_1_text-message-amanda-lenhart-senior-research-specialist

 

Lisa Graves's "FOX to Be Fined by FCC..." [also NBC] (from PR Watch)

http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2011/03/10471/fox-be-fined-fcc-fake-news-cmds-complaint-video-news-releases-nets-new-fines

 

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]

web.mit.edu/hemisphere

 

MIT Museum

http://web.mit.edu/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)

http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp