Hiya,

If you are a student, a teacher, or anyone looking for tips this semester, I've updated my web site with stuff. Feel free to use or adapt as you see fit.

This link leads to the Student Resources Main Page. There, you will find the following:

Writing Tips for Students

• How to Write a Cultural Studies Paper
  
• How to Create Strong Persuasive Speeches and Essays
  
• Worksheet and Template for Writing Abstracts
  
• How to Write a Pitch for a Popular Press Article
  
• How to Write a Preliminary Outline for a Popular Press Feature Article
  
• How to Write a Letter of Intent for Graduate School
  
• How to Write a Rationale (designed for Gallatin students, but useful to anyone thinking about developing an interdisciplinary project.)
  
• Colloquium Workbook(again, designed for Gallatin students, but useful to anyone cooking up a Senior or Master's Thesis.)
  

Presentation Tips for Students

• Terri's Tips for Unboring Class Presentations
  
• Terri's Guide to Running a Critique
  
• Terri's Tips for Giving a Tutorial
  
• A Checklist for making Informative Speeches (in MS Excel format)
  
• Terri's Tips for Creating Strong Persuasive Speeches and Essays
  

Research Help for Students

• Tips for those Doing Internet Research
  
• Tips for using your University's Online Databases
  
• Tips for Searching using Google and Amazon
  

Terri's General Lectures

• Postructuralism for Beginners</b>
  
• Postmodernism: An Intro. of Sorts
  
• Postcolonialism Riff
  

Terri's Feminism lectures

• What is a Feminist Theorist?
  
• Catching waves in feminism
  
• First Wave Feminism: 1848-1963
  
• Feminism's Second Wave: 1963-1982
  
• Third Wave Feminism: 1983-today
  
• What's a Cyberfeminist?
  
• Why it doesn't work to say "I'm a humanist."
  
• Terri's Top Ten Feminist Books
  

Close Readings for Students

• Reading notes for Douglas B. Holt's "Why Do Brands Cause Trouble?"
  
• Reading notes for Lawrence Lessig's, Future of Ideas (Part One)
  
• My reading notes for Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto"
  
• My essay on Derrida's Spectres of Marx (Introduction)
  
• A little paper on Mudimbe
  
• My essay on Gayatri Spivak's "More on Power/Knowledge"
  
• Writing (and) Independence: Gaytri Spivak and the Dark Continent of Ecriture Feminine
  

Technology Tips for Students

• LiveJournal for Beginners
  
• Blackboard for Beginners (written for UVI students, but general principles apply for anyone using Blackboard)
  
• Blackboard Intermediate: Using the Bulletin Board Feature
  
• PowerPoint Tips
  

Enjoy!!

Here is a short movie to get a sense of the different accents and personalities of three of my students: Mikyla Frederick (Antigua), Diane Francis (Dominica) and Miniminhya DeMund (St. Croix). They are talking about braids (or "plats".)

If hair braiding is part of your cultural heritage, do their thoughts mesh with yours? Have you ever used the word, "kango"?

http://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe/movies/BRAIDING_LESSONS_UVI.mov

I should probably compress this further but I was losing quality...

d_joshua weighs in on last season's America's Next Top Model and Tommy Hiligger's new show coming down the pipe. My fellow guilty pleasure indulgers, please swing by her journal and let her know your thoughts on this earth shattering information.

I was sort of shocked to run into a group of undergrads today who didn't know *any* of these electronic tools for research,available at most universities and even through some public libraries. If you surf in from home, you'll probably have to use your university's proxy server. Ask your librarian; they love questions about stuff like this.

Four online resources I couldn't live without:

Project Muse
Full-text online access to all journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Terri's notes: I find this the most user friendly of all the databases. It allows you to print from HTML or in PDF form.

J-Stor (Scholarly Journal Storage)
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Terri's notes: Be sure to check both J-Stor AND Project Muse, since they tend to cover different journals in overlapping fields.

ProQuest
This is where I search for newspaper and magazine coverage on topics.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations
This is what it sounds like. Dissertations from your home school are usually free; others are available at a cost to you. Really useful for estoteric stuff. Abstracts are useful for those hunting for dissertation topics.

Anything you can't live without?