MEDIA & CULTURE STUFF
Mixing Pop and Politics
- The Atlantic
- The Baffler
- Bitch Media
- Pop Matters
- Sounding Out!
- Souciant
- Ars Technica
- Color Lines
- Cyborgology
- Ada – Gender, New Media & Technology
- Maximum Rocknroll
- The Nation
- The New Inquiry
- The New Yorker
- Real Life
- Vox
- Bad Subjects
News Sources & Resources
- New York Times (students can click here to access the NY Times online, for free)
- Democracy Now!
- Pro Publica
- BBC News
- Al Jazeera
- The Intercept
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Pittsburgh City Paper
- Tube City Online (McKeesport news)
- Valley News Dispatch (via TribLive)
- Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting
- Nieman Lab at Harvard University
- Center For Investigative Reporting
- Politifact
- Quill
Good Things on the Web
COLLEGE & STUDENT STUFF
Penn State Greater Allegheny
- COMM @ PSUGA (The Communications Program at Penn State Greater Allegheny)
- Pittsburgh Cultural Resources – an interactive Google Map created for PSUGA students
- Academic Calendars
- Financial Aid
- Student Activities
- Learning Center
- Career Services
- Health Services
- Links to Title IX resources
- Commuting to Campus
- Teaching International Events Calendar
- Center for Academic and Career Excellence (ACE) – Federal program that provides academic and non-academic services to students who meet federal eligibility requirements and agree to participate in the program. This includes first generation college students, those from low-income families, physically challenged students, and students with learning disabilities.
Technology Resources
- Sites – Create your own free blog, website, or digital portfolio using WordPress.
- Box – 50GB of free online storage for Penn State students and faculty.
- Downloads – Free software for Penn State students and faculty.
- WebApps – Access popular applications (such as Microsoft Office) from a wide array of devices.
- Lynda – Free video tutorials on Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and more.
- Click! – Technology jumpstart guide.
- Media Commons – A university-wide initiative to enrich the teaching and learning experience through multimedia technology, classroom training and direct support for students, faculty and staff.
- Free Media Library (via Media Commons)
Writing Resources
- Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) – an indespensible collection of articles, tools and tips related to all aspects of the research and writing process, including valuable information on formatting and citations.
- The Chicago Manual of Style (Quick Guide) – this is your professor’s preferred format for writing. If you want to access the entire text of The Chicago Manual of Style, you can read it online through the Penn State library, or click here.