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White Papers: White Paper on White Papers (examples) Writing White Papers Preparing White Papers (CWRL) Blakesley excerpt (html) SAGE Guidelines White Papers FAQ On Writing White Papers What are White Papers? IT Papers Writing White Papers for the US IT Market Plain Language: Plain Language.gov Govt Mandates comparisons standard advice headings Center for Plain Language Plain Conference (DC Nov. 3- 6) Plain Language Network Plain Train SEC Plain English Handbook Revisiting Plain Language (article) Web Design: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Web Standards Project 508 Tutorials (Thatcher) Donald Norman Essays Usability.gov Blogs: Software Motime (free server side blog site) Blogger (free server side blog site) Blog City (free server side blog site, pay for upgrades) Live Journal (free server side blog site, pay for upgrades) TypePad (subscription server side software) Spaces (Microsoft's new foray into blogs) GSU blogs (free server side site at Georgia State) Movable Type (blog software to download) Drupal (content manage software to download, has blog features/capability) Wordpress (free blog software to download) Academic Jenny Edbauer Collin Brooke Adrian Miles Dave Rieder Jeff Rice Johndan Johnson-Eilola Steven Johnson Mark Bernstein Douglas Kellner Matt Kirschenbaum Christina Wodtke Kevin Brooks Kairos Blog List Political Blogs of War GOP Flog Wonkette Blog for Democracy Rhetorica Doc in the Box and Dagger Jag (soldier blogs) Audio (MP3) Music for Robots Fluxblog MP3blogs.org Christopher Porter Scenestars Said the Gramophone Tofu Hut Soul Sides Articles/Websites Blogs and Pedagogy (UT white paper) Blogs and Pedagogy (Kochis) Weblogs: a history and perspective Blogging Against Convention Blogging the DNC Composing the Self: Of Diaries and Lifelogs The academic contributions of blogging? Learn to blog, blog to learn A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator Blog Overkill How to Blog CJ.Web (blogs in journalism, links to articles) Metro Blogging Bloggies (2005 weblog awards, go vote!) Networking (RSS) Technorati (search engine that tracks blogs by number of links - about) del.icio.us - social bookmarks (online link organizing tool, also see this how-to article) Bloglines (a web-based RSS aggregator - free service for searching, subscribing, publishing news feeds, blogs, and web content) Motime blog post (how-to set up an RSS feed for your blog) RSS Described in Plain English (nice, simple explanation of RSS) What Are Webfeeds (RSS), and Why Should You Care? (article/tutorial) Huge list of RSS/webfeed programs (software, plug-ins, and web-based) Feedfinder (helps find RSS urls for a site) Pluck (free online RSS site, downloadable plug-in for IE) How to Create an RSS Feed With Notepad, a Web Server, and a Beer Bloglines, Flickr, and del.icio.us make RSS delectable RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces What is RSS/XML/Atom/Syndication? Blogging and RSS Say farewell to Blogs and Bookmarks and get your Furl on The network is the blog PowerPoint: Tutorials Beginning Tutorial (FGCU) Basics Tutorial ( IUPUI) PP for Teachers (OSU) Beginner and Advanced Basics Some Advanced Tutorials PowerPoint Class Templates, Tips, and Tools Advanced Stuff Very Simple More Basics Links to tutorials PowerPoint Links Quick Presentation Tips Using Colors to Connect with Your Audience Choosing the Right Colors for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint Guides, Tips, and Help Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint Dos and Don'ts Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips Presentation help and tips PowerPoints on PowerPoint English for Special Purposes: Using PowerPoint Writing with PowerPoint (from Purdue's OWL) If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations. PowerPoint viewer for Windows PowerPoint viewer for Macintosh Articles + Michael Kapper, Mixing Media: Textual, Oral, and Visual Literacies (and then some) in Teaching PowerPoint Dale Cyphert, The Problem of PowerPoint: Visual Aid or Visual Rhetoric? (click on full text pdf link) Debbie D. DuFrene, Concept, Content, Construction, and Contingencies: Getting the Horse Before the PowerPoint Cart (click on full text pdf link) David Byrne, Learning to Love PowerPoint (contrast w/ Tufte below) Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Byrne Interview) A Clash of Rhetorical Cultures (Cliff Atkinson interview) Beyond Bullets (Cliff Atkinson's blog) Think Before you PowerPoint Reign in PowerPoint Abuse Don't Blame the Tool To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, take a kid's-eye view Power has always been the Point Microsoft PP home page Critiques Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely PowerPoint ReMix (PP remix of Tufte's book on PP) Cancer survival rates: tables, graphics, PP (Tufte) PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (Tufte) Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? 3 PP critiques PowerPointless Gettysburg Address PowerPoint
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Plain Language: Plain Language.gov Govt Mandates comparisons standard advice headings Center for Plain Language Plain Conference (DC Nov. 3- 6) Plain Language Network Plain Train SEC Plain English Handbook Revisiting Plain Language (article) Web Design: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Web Standards Project 508 Tutorials (Thatcher) Donald Norman Essays Usability.gov Blogs: Software Motime (free server side blog site) Blogger (free server side blog site) Blog City (free server side blog site, pay for upgrades) Live Journal (free server side blog site, pay for upgrades) TypePad (subscription server side software) Spaces (Microsoft's new foray into blogs) GSU blogs (free server side site at Georgia State) Movable Type (blog software to download) Drupal (content manage software to download, has blog features/capability) Wordpress (free blog software to download) Academic Jenny Edbauer Collin Brooke Adrian Miles Dave Rieder Jeff Rice Johndan Johnson-Eilola Steven Johnson Mark Bernstein Douglas Kellner Matt Kirschenbaum Christina Wodtke Kevin Brooks Kairos Blog List Political Blogs of War GOP Flog Wonkette Blog for Democracy Rhetorica Doc in the Box and Dagger Jag (soldier blogs) Audio (MP3) Music for Robots Fluxblog MP3blogs.org Christopher Porter Scenestars Said the Gramophone Tofu Hut Soul Sides Articles/Websites Blogs and Pedagogy (UT white paper) Blogs and Pedagogy (Kochis) Weblogs: a history and perspective Blogging Against Convention Blogging the DNC Composing the Self: Of Diaries and Lifelogs The academic contributions of blogging? Learn to blog, blog to learn A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator Blog Overkill How to Blog CJ.Web (blogs in journalism, links to articles) Metro Blogging Bloggies (2005 weblog awards, go vote!) Networking (RSS) Technorati (search engine that tracks blogs by number of links - about) del.icio.us - social bookmarks (online link organizing tool, also see this how-to article) Bloglines (a web-based RSS aggregator - free service for searching, subscribing, publishing news feeds, blogs, and web content) Motime blog post (how-to set up an RSS feed for your blog) RSS Described in Plain English (nice, simple explanation of RSS) What Are Webfeeds (RSS), and Why Should You Care? (article/tutorial) Huge list of RSS/webfeed programs (software, plug-ins, and web-based) Feedfinder (helps find RSS urls for a site) Pluck (free online RSS site, downloadable plug-in for IE) How to Create an RSS Feed With Notepad, a Web Server, and a Beer Bloglines, Flickr, and del.icio.us make RSS delectable RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces What is RSS/XML/Atom/Syndication? Blogging and RSS Say farewell to Blogs and Bookmarks and get your Furl on The network is the blog PowerPoint: Tutorials Beginning Tutorial (FGCU) Basics Tutorial ( IUPUI) PP for Teachers (OSU) Beginner and Advanced Basics Some Advanced Tutorials PowerPoint Class Templates, Tips, and Tools Advanced Stuff Very Simple More Basics Links to tutorials PowerPoint Links Quick Presentation Tips Using Colors to Connect with Your Audience Choosing the Right Colors for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint Guides, Tips, and Help Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint Dos and Don'ts Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips Presentation help and tips PowerPoints on PowerPoint English for Special Purposes: Using PowerPoint Writing with PowerPoint (from Purdue's OWL) If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations. PowerPoint viewer for Windows PowerPoint viewer for Macintosh Articles + Michael Kapper, Mixing Media: Textual, Oral, and Visual Literacies (and then some) in Teaching PowerPoint Dale Cyphert, The Problem of PowerPoint: Visual Aid or Visual Rhetoric? (click on full text pdf link) Debbie D. DuFrene, Concept, Content, Construction, and Contingencies: Getting the Horse Before the PowerPoint Cart (click on full text pdf link) David Byrne, Learning to Love PowerPoint (contrast w/ Tufte below) Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Byrne Interview) A Clash of Rhetorical Cultures (Cliff Atkinson interview) Beyond Bullets (Cliff Atkinson's blog) Think Before you PowerPoint Reign in PowerPoint Abuse Don't Blame the Tool To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, take a kid's-eye view Power has always been the Point Microsoft PP home page Critiques Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely PowerPoint ReMix (PP remix of Tufte's book on PP) Cancer survival rates: tables, graphics, PP (Tufte) PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (Tufte) Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? 3 PP critiques PowerPointless Gettysburg Address PowerPoint
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Web Design: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Web Standards Project 508 Tutorials (Thatcher) Donald Norman Essays Usability.gov Blogs: Software Motime (free server side blog site) Blogger (free server side blog site) Blog City (free server side blog site, pay for upgrades) Live Journal (free server side blog site, pay for upgrades) TypePad (subscription server side software) Spaces (Microsoft's new foray into blogs) GSU blogs (free server side site at Georgia State) Movable Type (blog software to download) Drupal (content manage software to download, has blog features/capability) Wordpress (free blog software to download) Academic Jenny Edbauer Collin Brooke Adrian Miles Dave Rieder Jeff Rice Johndan Johnson-Eilola Steven Johnson Mark Bernstein Douglas Kellner Matt Kirschenbaum Christina Wodtke Kevin Brooks Kairos Blog List Political Blogs of War GOP Flog Wonkette Blog for Democracy Rhetorica Doc in the Box and Dagger Jag (soldier blogs) Audio (MP3) Music for Robots Fluxblog MP3blogs.org Christopher Porter Scenestars Said the Gramophone Tofu Hut Soul Sides Articles/Websites Blogs and Pedagogy (UT white paper) Blogs and Pedagogy (Kochis) Weblogs: a history and perspective Blogging Against Convention Blogging the DNC Composing the Self: Of Diaries and Lifelogs The academic contributions of blogging? Learn to blog, blog to learn A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator Blog Overkill How to Blog CJ.Web (blogs in journalism, links to articles) Metro Blogging Bloggies (2005 weblog awards, go vote!) Networking (RSS) Technorati (search engine that tracks blogs by number of links - about) del.icio.us - social bookmarks (online link organizing tool, also see this how-to article) Bloglines (a web-based RSS aggregator - free service for searching, subscribing, publishing news feeds, blogs, and web content) Motime blog post (how-to set up an RSS feed for your blog) RSS Described in Plain English (nice, simple explanation of RSS) What Are Webfeeds (RSS), and Why Should You Care? (article/tutorial) Huge list of RSS/webfeed programs (software, plug-ins, and web-based) Feedfinder (helps find RSS urls for a site) Pluck (free online RSS site, downloadable plug-in for IE) How to Create an RSS Feed With Notepad, a Web Server, and a Beer Bloglines, Flickr, and del.icio.us make RSS delectable RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces What is RSS/XML/Atom/Syndication? Blogging and RSS Say farewell to Blogs and Bookmarks and get your Furl on The network is the blog PowerPoint: Tutorials Beginning Tutorial (FGCU) Basics Tutorial ( IUPUI) PP for Teachers (OSU) Beginner and Advanced Basics Some Advanced Tutorials PowerPoint Class Templates, Tips, and Tools Advanced Stuff Very Simple More Basics Links to tutorials PowerPoint Links Quick Presentation Tips Using Colors to Connect with Your Audience Choosing the Right Colors for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint Guides, Tips, and Help Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint Dos and Don'ts Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips Presentation help and tips PowerPoints on PowerPoint English for Special Purposes: Using PowerPoint Writing with PowerPoint (from Purdue's OWL) If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations. PowerPoint viewer for Windows PowerPoint viewer for Macintosh Articles + Michael Kapper, Mixing Media: Textual, Oral, and Visual Literacies (and then some) in Teaching PowerPoint Dale Cyphert, The Problem of PowerPoint: Visual Aid or Visual Rhetoric? (click on full text pdf link) Debbie D. DuFrene, Concept, Content, Construction, and Contingencies: Getting the Horse Before the PowerPoint Cart (click on full text pdf link) David Byrne, Learning to Love PowerPoint (contrast w/ Tufte below) Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Byrne Interview) A Clash of Rhetorical Cultures (Cliff Atkinson interview) Beyond Bullets (Cliff Atkinson's blog) Think Before you PowerPoint Reign in PowerPoint Abuse Don't Blame the Tool To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, take a kid's-eye view Power has always been the Point Microsoft PP home page Critiques Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely PowerPoint ReMix (PP remix of Tufte's book on PP) Cancer survival rates: tables, graphics, PP (Tufte) PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (Tufte) Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? 3 PP critiques PowerPointless Gettysburg Address PowerPoint
Web Design:
Blogs: Software Motime (free server side blog site) Blogger (free server side blog site) Blog City (free server side blog site, pay for upgrades) Live Journal (free server side blog site, pay for upgrades) TypePad (subscription server side software) Spaces (Microsoft's new foray into blogs) GSU blogs (free server side site at Georgia State) Movable Type (blog software to download) Drupal (content manage software to download, has blog features/capability) Wordpress (free blog software to download) Academic Jenny Edbauer Collin Brooke Adrian Miles Dave Rieder Jeff Rice Johndan Johnson-Eilola Steven Johnson Mark Bernstein Douglas Kellner Matt Kirschenbaum Christina Wodtke Kevin Brooks Kairos Blog List Political Blogs of War GOP Flog Wonkette Blog for Democracy Rhetorica Doc in the Box and Dagger Jag (soldier blogs) Audio (MP3) Music for Robots Fluxblog MP3blogs.org Christopher Porter Scenestars Said the Gramophone Tofu Hut Soul Sides Articles/Websites Blogs and Pedagogy (UT white paper) Blogs and Pedagogy (Kochis) Weblogs: a history and perspective Blogging Against Convention Blogging the DNC Composing the Self: Of Diaries and Lifelogs The academic contributions of blogging? Learn to blog, blog to learn A Personal Information and Knowledge Infrastructure Integrator Blog Overkill How to Blog CJ.Web (blogs in journalism, links to articles) Metro Blogging Bloggies (2005 weblog awards, go vote!) Networking (RSS) Technorati (search engine that tracks blogs by number of links - about) del.icio.us - social bookmarks (online link organizing tool, also see this how-to article) Bloglines (a web-based RSS aggregator - free service for searching, subscribing, publishing news feeds, blogs, and web content) Motime blog post (how-to set up an RSS feed for your blog) RSS Described in Plain English (nice, simple explanation of RSS) What Are Webfeeds (RSS), and Why Should You Care? (article/tutorial) Huge list of RSS/webfeed programs (software, plug-ins, and web-based) Feedfinder (helps find RSS urls for a site) Pluck (free online RSS site, downloadable plug-in for IE) How to Create an RSS Feed With Notepad, a Web Server, and a Beer Bloglines, Flickr, and del.icio.us make RSS delectable RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators How Blogs Work in 7 Easy Pieces What is RSS/XML/Atom/Syndication? Blogging and RSS Say farewell to Blogs and Bookmarks and get your Furl on The network is the blog PowerPoint: Tutorials Beginning Tutorial (FGCU) Basics Tutorial ( IUPUI) PP for Teachers (OSU) Beginner and Advanced Basics Some Advanced Tutorials PowerPoint Class Templates, Tips, and Tools Advanced Stuff Very Simple More Basics Links to tutorials PowerPoint Links Quick Presentation Tips Using Colors to Connect with Your Audience Choosing the Right Colors for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint Guides, Tips, and Help Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint Dos and Don'ts Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips Presentation help and tips PowerPoints on PowerPoint English for Special Purposes: Using PowerPoint Writing with PowerPoint (from Purdue's OWL) If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations. PowerPoint viewer for Windows PowerPoint viewer for Macintosh Articles + Michael Kapper, Mixing Media: Textual, Oral, and Visual Literacies (and then some) in Teaching PowerPoint Dale Cyphert, The Problem of PowerPoint: Visual Aid or Visual Rhetoric? (click on full text pdf link) Debbie D. DuFrene, Concept, Content, Construction, and Contingencies: Getting the Horse Before the PowerPoint Cart (click on full text pdf link) David Byrne, Learning to Love PowerPoint (contrast w/ Tufte below) Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Byrne Interview) A Clash of Rhetorical Cultures (Cliff Atkinson interview) Beyond Bullets (Cliff Atkinson's blog) Think Before you PowerPoint Reign in PowerPoint Abuse Don't Blame the Tool To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, take a kid's-eye view Power has always been the Point Microsoft PP home page Critiques Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely PowerPoint ReMix (PP remix of Tufte's book on PP) Cancer survival rates: tables, graphics, PP (Tufte) PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (Tufte) Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? 3 PP critiques PowerPointless Gettysburg Address PowerPoint
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PowerPoint: Tutorials Beginning Tutorial (FGCU) Basics Tutorial ( IUPUI) PP for Teachers (OSU) Beginner and Advanced Basics Some Advanced Tutorials PowerPoint Class Templates, Tips, and Tools Advanced Stuff Very Simple More Basics Links to tutorials PowerPoint Links Quick Presentation Tips Using Colors to Connect with Your Audience Choosing the Right Colors for Your Next Presentation PowerPoint Guides, Tips, and Help Tips for PowerPoint PowerPoint Dos and Don'ts Aristotle's Top 10 PowerPoint Tips Presentation help and tips PowerPoints on PowerPoint English for Special Purposes: Using PowerPoint Writing with PowerPoint (from Purdue's OWL) If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations. PowerPoint viewer for Windows PowerPoint viewer for Macintosh Articles + Michael Kapper, Mixing Media: Textual, Oral, and Visual Literacies (and then some) in Teaching PowerPoint Dale Cyphert, The Problem of PowerPoint: Visual Aid or Visual Rhetoric? (click on full text pdf link) Debbie D. DuFrene, Concept, Content, Construction, and Contingencies: Getting the Horse Before the PowerPoint Cart (click on full text pdf link) David Byrne, Learning to Love PowerPoint (contrast w/ Tufte below) Turning Heads With PowerPoint (Byrne Interview) A Clash of Rhetorical Cultures (Cliff Atkinson interview) Beyond Bullets (Cliff Atkinson's blog) Think Before you PowerPoint Reign in PowerPoint Abuse Don't Blame the Tool To Avoid the Perils of PowerPoint, take a kid's-eye view Power has always been the Point Microsoft PP home page Critiques Edward Tufte, PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely PowerPoint ReMix (PP remix of Tufte's book on PP) Cancer survival rates: tables, graphics, PP (Tufte) PowerPoint Does Rocket Science (Tufte) Ian Parker, Absolute Powerpoint: Can a software package edit our thoughts? 3 PP critiques PowerPointless Gettysburg Address PowerPoint
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If you don't have Microsoft PowerPoint on your computer, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer which will allow you to view and print the presentations.
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