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National Agriculture Statistics Service -- US Crop Rankings
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This spreadsheet includs arces planted, yield, and price. Moving this data into a spreadsheet and removing some of the columns would leave students with a file of data in which they could install formulas to calculate comparative values of different crops. [87]
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Students might look at this data comparing crops and relative quantities of crops with nutritional needs of people.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
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3D Animated Molecules
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 This is a typical clipart site with many images that can be integrated into personal web sites. However, this section, "3D Animated Molecules" might be of special use chemistry teachers to demonstrate various molecular structures. [249]
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Chemistry teachers can use these images published on web pages to demonstrate to students various aspects of molecular structure. Students might also use the images to illustrate their learning.
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IconBazaar
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3D Body Scanner
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Body scanning is a focus of research at Cornell University that uses three-
dimensional visualization technology to create accurate digital models of
the human body, with the goal of enabling cost effective, custom-fit
apparel. This Web site describes the process of capturing a 3D image and how
it can be applied to enhance online shopping. The section called Virtual
Try-On illustrates how "a consumer's body scan is merged with scans of pants
sized for a set of fit models."
Includes Flash media [427]
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Students might be asked to speculate on other products that might be customized by 3D scanning.
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Cornell University
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African Burial Ground
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As the city of New York has grown up, out, and over an increasingly vast
area of land during the past few centuries, various sites of human activity
and habitation have become one of the many layers that continue to interest
urbanologists, sociologists, planners, and anthropologists. One such layer
is the African burial ground that was found in lower Manhattan in 1991, and
which has been celebrated by a diverse group of individuals ever since.
Visitors will want to start by looking at the "Rites of Ancestral Return"
section. Here they may elect to view video clips from past celebrations and
view an interactive map that highlights the various ways in which the
colonial African experience has been relived and commemorated along the
Eastern seaboard. The other section on the site is also quite engaging, as
it allows visitors to explore the African burial ground through educational
features about the artifacts and graves found within the context of the
bustling city which had grown up around the site through the ensuing
centuries. [516]
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The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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American Museum of the Moving Image
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The power of television in determining the successful candidate for
president of the United States over the past fifty years has been immense --
and something that every candidate is aware of, for better or for worse.
This engaging online exhibit from the American Museum of the Moving
Candidate offers television commercials for each presidential candidate from
the years 1952 to 2000, along with an analysis of each major party, their
advertising campaigns, and a map showing the results of each election. There
are some real gems here including the advertisements from the fractious
campaign of 1968, the powerful uses of various shock issues in the campaign
of 1988, and Harry Belafonte speaking on behalf of John F. Kennedy in 1960.
The site is rounded out by a selection of helpful educational materials,
including a teacher's guide and a complete program guide to the presidential
campaign television advertisements. [495]
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American Museum of the Moving Image
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American Radio Works
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Radio documentaries have been around almost since the beginning of regularly
scheduled radio programming, but not all are created equal (or with great
aplomb), and the American Radio Works is certainly one of the finer
documentary production units in the field. Based at Minnesota Public Radio
in St. Paul, Minnesota, Radio Works' primary themes include public affairs
documentaries on major social and economic issues, investigative reporting,
and the Living History series, which seeks to document the 20th century
American experience "through the lives of those who witnessed it." The web-
browsing public will be glad to know that all of the radio projects are
available online here, and can be listened to in their entirety. Visitors
can listen to close to 40 of their productions, including their most recent
production which deals with the extensive phone conversations recorded by
Presidents Johnson, Kennedy, and Nixon during their terms in the White House
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Minnesota Public Radio
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American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States
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"Rationalize rhetoric, and it speaks to your mind. Personify her and she speaks to your soul." I wide range of sources of rhetoric, including christian rhetoric, movie speeches, rhetoric of 9-11, speach bank, top 100 speeches, etc. [481]
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Michael Eldenmuller
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American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States
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A wonderful web site with links to important speeches, both real and ficticious. They include christian rhetoric, movie speeches, news, rhetoric of 9-11, top 100 speeches, and more. [541]
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American Rhetoric
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Audio & Video Clips: The Voice of America
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Throughout the history of America, great personalities have made great speeches. These speeches have, many times changed the course of history. Declaring ideals and beliefs held by the speaker, speeches have moved, humored and irritated certain people. This list of multimedia files, while not comprehensive, will give you a taste of great Americans speaking. Includes: - Grover Cleveland 1892 speech. - William McKinley Front-Porch Speech, 1896 - Theodore Roosevelt on Taft and Wilson - William Howard Taft on a sense of humor - Woodrow Wilson on politics - Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 Inaugural Address - Harry S. Truman's 1949 Inaugural Address - Dwight D. Eisenhower 1952 Stump Speech - John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address - Lyndon B. Johnson's Oath of Office, November 22, 1963.
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ThinkQuest Project
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Bach Digital
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To say that Johann Sebastian Bach was a gifted and prodigious composer would
be like saying that Shakespeare merely wrote a few plays. This Web site is a
loving tribute to his work, undertaken by the main repositories of Bach's
compositions, including the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig and the University of
Leipzig. [381]
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University of
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Beetle Science
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As this Web site proclaims, "We live in the age of beetles," and given that
one out of five species of all living things is a beetle, this seems like a
fairly accurate claim. This engaging site, developed at Cornell University,
highlights material related to bugs and beetles in an informative and well-
designed fashion. Visitors will want to start by clicking on the "Species-
Scape" illustration, which symbolically portrays the relative abundances of
various life forms on earth. Clicking on each image (such as an elephant or
an earthworm) will bring up a text box that gives a brief overview of the
species. The "Virtual Beetles" section offers visitors the ability to
manipulate three different beetles, including the Japanese rhinoceros
beetle. Finally, visitors also have the ability to explore the research
laboratories of Professor Quentin Wheeler, an entomologist at Cornell. Flash [424]
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This would be an excellent springboard for a small group project for middle school or high school students doing a project on beetles.
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Cornell University
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Best of History Web Sites
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Best of History Web Sites is a portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Here you'll find sites, rated for usefulness and accuracy, that will help you study or teach a wide variety of topics and periods in History. [306]
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This site can be used in a wide variety of ways. It is so rich, that you might assignment students exclusively to this site as a portal reresources for any specific product, especially multimedia projects.
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Thomas Daccord
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Biology in Motion
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Here you will find animations, interactive activities, and cartoons designed to make learning biology a richer, more engaging experience. After years of teaching biology in various colleges and universities, I began developing my own graphics and multimedia, mainly for in-class presentation. [331]
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This site would make an effective supplemental tool for students, or an excellent presentation tool for presenting to the entire class.
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Leif Saul
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers\
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Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. [532]
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Chemistry Comes Alive! Sample Movies
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Sample Movies from Chemistry Comes Alive!
The movies on Chemistry Comes Alive! CD-ROMs have been carefully produced, edited, and compressed into high quality QuickTime movies. Movies are only available on the Chemistry Comes Alive! CD-ROMs, but several samples are provided here. Please note that the movies were designed to play from CD-ROMs. Downloading via the Internet may cause delays. You must have QuickTime 4 or later to play these movies. If you do not have QuickTime, you can download a free copy from Apple Computer. [540]
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Journal of Chemical Education
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Civilisations
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Civilisations is an entirely new way to explore human history - a multi-dimensional picture of the world, where you're in charge of the timeline. [408]
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BBC
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Columbia University Excavations at Amheida
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Columbia’s excavation at Amheida is a unique multidisciplinary project that innovatively links the sciences and humanities. This site features a graphical/geographic navigation of the excavation site with QTVR files for exploring. [327]
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Students can use this site to speculate on the finds at Amheida and what they tell us about the society, culture, and technology of the people who built this city.
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Columbia University, Department of Art, History, & Archaeology
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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
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The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 11,000 maps online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, childrens and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history. [538]
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David Rumsey
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Digital History
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This is a rich site with features that include: onloine textbook, encyclopedia, biographies, essays, interactive timeline, primary sources, visual history, and special resources for teachers and students.
This site was created through a partnership with University of Houston, Chicago Historical Society, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American history, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Project for the Activie Teaching of American History, and the National Park Service. [514]
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Digital History
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Digital Libraries Working Group
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Listen to the recording of mechanical musical instruments from history including:
- Flute Clock, Vienna about 1815
- Musical box movement, Vienna about 1860
- Orchestrion, Prague about 1860
Also available are selections of ethnic music styles including:
- Biertrinklied der Yukpa (Venezuela)
- Arbeitslied aus Nuristan (Afghanistan)
- Lied der Wagogo (Tansania)
All in Real Audio!
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These audio files might be used in music appreciation classes or unites to study varying music styles from different cultures. The mechanical musical instruments are, in a way, our first attempts at computing. They involve software the causes the machine to operate (play music) in a defined fashion. This can be used in discussions of the history of computing.
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Arbeitsgruppe Digitale Bibliotheken und Archive
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Digital Saskatchewan : Width=(1344)
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Digital Saskatchewan is designed for use by Saskatchewan teachers and students, although its contents are available to the world through the WWW. Teachers may use the resources of Digital Saskatchewan to stimulate interest in Saskatchewan studies and to create presentations and instructional materials for their classrooms. Students can use its resources to illustrate reports, to create multimedia presentations, and to see what other students and teachers throughout the province are doing and learning. [533]
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Tisdale School Division
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Discovering Lewis & Clark
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 A detailed synopsis of the expedition by historian Harry Fritz is enhanced by photographs, interactive maps, audio files, and illustrations from the expedition journals. [486]
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Discovering Lewis & Clark
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Discovery Channel :: Colosseum: A Gladiator\
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Serving as the inspiration for countless other arenas of sport and battle
over subsequent millennia, the Colosseum in Rome (finished in AD 80),
continues to hold a great deal of interest for both scholars and the general
public. Recently, the Discovery Channel teamed up with the BBC to create a
special television program dedicated to this most august structure, along
with a nice website that contains some useful features. Visitors will want
to start by heading to the section that allows them to explore a virtual
reconstruction of the Colosseum, which includes the opportunity to learn
about the importance of different architectural elements and, of course, the
Gate of Death. [480]
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Discovery Communications Inc.
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Earth Observatory
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This is a fabulous web site with a vast amount of information and data about our planet. Not only does it contain valuable information, but it allows teachers and students create images and animations based on data comparisons. A highly recommended site and also the winner of the 2002 Webby awards in the category of Science. [305]
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Students can create animations that trace various atmosphic conditions over a series of months and include them in science presentations. This is only the tip of the iceberg for this wonderful web site.
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NASA
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EarthCam
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This free
site is a helpful way to take a peek at literally thousands of places
(including some rather unusual ones) around the world. Visitors will want to
begin by exploring some of the fun cameras set up by the EarthCam group in
Philadelphia, New Orleans, Seattle, Dublin, and Las Vegas. Also featured on
the Web site's home page are the Top Ten Cam Sites, which feature the most
popular Web cams from around the world. [420]
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It can help to set atmosphere in your room when you have a Webcam display up of the place that your are studying showing as students come into the room.
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EarthCam Inc.
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EuroNews
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Created in 1992 in Lyons, France, EuroNews is a European Broadcasting Union initiative that was started by a group of European public broadcasters interested in providing European viewers with a diverse set of perspectives
of regional and international news. The site will be of interest to anyone with an interest in viewing recent news briefs about a number of important topics of relevance, such as political affairs within the European Union, cultural activities, and technological innovations within various parts of the EU. Visitors can also view a weekly schedule for EuroNews, or elect to view the latest news update from EuroNews. As might be expected, the site may be viewed in a number of languages, including German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. [500]
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EuroNews.Net
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European Space Agency: Mars Express
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Europe reclaims a stake in Mars exploration! The European Space Agency has
launched this informative site in conjunction with the Mars Express mission
which lifted off on June 3, 2003. Before the live Webcast of the craft
arrival in December, 2003, visitors to this well organized site can track
the progress of the spacecraft. You can also learn a lot about early
attempts to explore mars and investigate the possibility of life on Mars.
The European Space Agency also has given the public detailed technical
information on Mars Express and the Beagle 2 Lander that will actually land
on the surface of the red planet. This site is an exciting way for
educators, students and the general public to be actively involved with this
historic event. [416]
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ESA
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Experiencing War: Stories from the Veterans History Project
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Developed by the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, this
site offers visual and written testimony about the experiences of United
States veterans ranging from those who served in World War I, to those who
served in the first Gulf War. The documents are organized into three main
topical areas, including courage, patriotism, and community. The community
section features recollections of the communal experience found by many who
served in the Armed Forces, including those of John Walter Earle, who was a
Special Services Officer during World War II. [400]
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The Library of Congress
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FindSounds - Search the Web for Sounds
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Welcome to FindSounds.com, a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples. Take a look at the types of sounds you can find. [347]
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Comparisonics Corporation
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Free Speech Movement Digital Archive
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Thirty-four years later, thanks to a $3.5 million gift from Stephen M. Silberstein, the University of California Berkeley Library and the Bancroft Library began an ambitious program to document the role of Mario Savio and other participants in the Free Speech Movement - a legacy that can still be traced in political activism and educational reform throughout the country. [298]
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Students might read through some of the texts and view selected video clips. Then they might create posters supporting or condeming the protests. Each student or team should back up their poster with facts.
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Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Geologic Explorations
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Geologic Explorations allows you to explore a variety of unique geological formations using Quicktime Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas and digital still imagery. [14]
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Students might be asked to select from images provided from this site, the one(s) that illustrates the geologic formation being covered in class. The QTVR files can also be used by the teacher to illustrate geologic characteristics using a data projector.
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Science Junction/North Carolina State University
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Global Trees Campaign
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With some of the most exquisite frescoes in Europe, the Vatican created this
Web site that highlights some of their remarkable holdings, many of which
are situated within the various rooms of the Apostolic Palace. As many
travelers may be unable to wait in the seemingly endless lines that are a
hallmark of visiting the Vatican, the site offers a nice overview of some of
the works that have been commissioned by different popes over the past five
hundred years. In the "Vatican Museums Online" section, visitors can browse
through the various rooms, including the Sistine Chapel, the Ethnological
Missionary Museum, and the Gregorian Egyptian Museum. Visitors may also take
a virtual tour of each room, aided by a Java interface that includes a zoom
and scroll feature. Additionally, a highlights section features 30 works of
great importance within the Vatican, among them the works of Raphael,
Botticelli, and Michelangelo. [Java VR] [434]
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Vatican Museums
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Hamrick Software - U.S. Surname Distribution
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Enter a surname (last name) into the form below and you'll get a map of the United States showing the distribution of people with this surname within the 50 United States. [492]
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Hamrick Software
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Historical Photographs Online
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Nearly 200 links to a wide variety of photo archives on the Internet including the Library of Congress, Rotch Library, Wisonsin Historical Society, Palais de la découverte, and the Australian National University ArtServe.
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University of California, Riverside
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How Everyday Things Are Made
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It is difficult for many individuals to fathom the exacting and complex
processes used to manufacture an airplane, car, or even candy. Stepping in
to help explain how many everyday things are made is this fine Web site
developed by the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford
University and design 4x, a company that develops online courses on
manufacturing topics. The site begins with a brief introductory video clip
orienting new visitors to the materials available on the site, and on how
best to navigate the site's features. Dozens of products are covered here,
including airplanes, motorcycles, cars, jelly beans, chocolate, glass
bottles, crayons, and golf clubs. Additionally, the site also contains
information on various careers in manufacturing, along with a list of books
on the field of manufacturing. Another helpful aspect of the site is the
Think About It feature, where visitors are asked to offer their comments on
how they think a certain process works, along with reading the previous
comments of other visitors. [432]
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Stanford University
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Indepth Analysis of Macbeth
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This site is essentially an online cliff notes for MacBeth. It has one added feature that uniquely takes advantage of the Internet. The authors created a Shakespeare dictionary and hypertexted the dictionary to the play. Cool! [253]
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My classic assignment for literature is to have students,pretending to be selected characters of a play or book, pose questions through a message board to other characters that explore their motivations. Then they return, read a question posed by a classmate, and do some research to answer the question speculating on the motivations. This site would be an ideal resource for such an activity.
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ThinkQuest
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Interactive Weather Information Network
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A variety of images and animations indicating the curren weather conditions around the country. One feature is an animation that illustrates cloud movement across the country over the past six hours. [272]
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Using QuickTime or other video tools, students might splice together many videos available through this site to track a weather pattern across the country.
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The National Weather Service
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Internet Archive: Moving Images Archive
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The creative people at the
Internet Archive have also created this wonderful Moving Images Archive
which contains thousands of various educational films, television
commercials, and a number of other visual materials. The best part is that
viewers can add their comments about the films after watching them. Of
course, visitors can perform keyword searches within the Archive or view
lists of the most popular films located here. One rather amusing film is the
social hygiene educational adventure titled Are You Popular? (from 1947),
which shows examples of proper and improper dating etiquette and how to be
courteous to one's parents. [459]
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Internet Archive
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Internet Public Library: POTUS
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 Welcome! In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents. Links to biographies, historical documents, audio and video files, and other presidential sites are also included to enrich this site. [361]
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The Internet Public Library
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IRIS
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The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology is a university research consortium dedicated to exploring the Earth's interior through the collection and distribution of seismographic data.
IRIS programs contribute to scholarly research, education, earthquake hazard mitigation, and the verification of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. [444]
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National Science Foundation
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Jack London's Ranch Album
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In 1905 American writer, Jack London, had purchased 129 acres of ranch land in the Sonoma valley, and over time he continued to add adjoining acreage. While writing remained his vocation, farming became his avocation. As an enthusiast of scientific farming, he set out to make his "Beauty Ranch" the most modern in the west. [349]
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Jack London's Ranch Album
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Journey Through Tikal
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This is another QTVR tour of ancient places by the folks at Studio 360. This tour features Tikal, the ruins of the Mayan city that flourished in Central America 2000 years ago. An interesting feature of this site is a map of the city with spots marked where QTVR panoramas are provided. [74]
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Studio 360
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LibriVox
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LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project. [544]
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LibriVox
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Lost Cities Adventure
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A variety of QuickTime VR panoramas of the ancient city of Machu Picchu. The quality is quite good.
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Studio 360
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Lycos Multimedia Search
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A search tool that helps you search for video, audio, or images on the Internet. [304]
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Lycos, Inc.
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Macau: A Selection of Cartographic Images
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In order to provide scholars and
other interested parties with a selection of maps and visual ephemera
related to the area's history and development, the American Memory Project
at the Library of Congress developed this fine online collection. The entire
online collection consists of 16 maps, ranging from a 1655 Dutch map of the
coastline around Macau to a 1991 map that shows the three areas that
constitute the Territory of Macau produced by the Portuguese cartographic
service. One gem in the collection is the map depicting Macau that was taken
from the British Buccaneer Atlas of 1696 that was prepared and used by the
infamous pirate Bartholomew Sharpe. Uses Mr Sid [425]
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This wold be a gem for studying the history of Asia.
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Medieval Writing
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Developed and maintained by Dr. Dianne Tillotson, this site is a good
location to begin learning about handwriting and manuscript production in
the Middle Ages. Needless to say, the art and science of deciphering these
manuscripts is terribly time-consuming and complicated. The site is divided
into approximately thirteen sections, and first-time visitors would do well
to read the "What is paleography?" essay first, in order to learn about this
elaborate decoding process. The other sections of the site describe (through
words, illustrations, and photographs) the life of a scribe during the
Middle Ages, the tools utilized to produce the manuscripts, and the various
forms that manuscripts took during this historical era. One rather
delightful aspect of the site are the paleography exercises where visitors
can try their hand at deciphering various passages from medieval
manuscripts, including Dante's Inferno and the Book of Hours. [Flash] [435]
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Memory of the World Register
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Just a few excerpts from the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv, the first sound archive in the world, founded in 1899 by members of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and representing over 7000 hours of recorded audio history and culture. These excerpts include:
- Traditional shamanic heeling ceremony of the Azande people in Zaire
- Sirmatikos at a wedding ceremony on the island of Karpathos, Greece
- Polyphonic song of Nuristan, Afghanistan
- Language of the Kung¹-Bushmen
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These audio files can be used to introduce a unit on culture in different parts of the world to help students understand the dramatic differences between what constitutes culture from divergent societies.
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UNESCO
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MicrobeLibrary.org
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This site, provided by the American Society for Microbiology,
showcases a searchable database of over 150 images of microbes. The
images, submitted by professional microbiologists, have been
carefully reviewed for their educational quality and are presented in
formats ranging from high-powered microscopic stills to QuickTime
animations and film footage. [215]
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This site contains a wealth of multimedia material that can be used by teachers in their presentation of microbiological concepts and by students in their reports and presentations.
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Millennium: A Thousand Years of History
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An educator's guide to the CNN program series. Lots of maps, timelines, and perspectives.
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CNN
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Motion Pictures from 1894 to 1915
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Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized for the first time (62 are also available in other American Memory presentations). Highlights include films of the United States Postal Service from 1903, cattle breeding, fire fighters, ice manufacturing, logging, calisthenic and gymnastic exercises in schools, amusement parks, boxing, expositions, football, parades, swimming, and other sporting events. [269]
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These motion pictures will make excellent presentation media for teacher and student.
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Library of Congress
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Motion Pictures of the Edison Manufacturing Co.
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Information and MPEG & QuickTime files of early Edison movies, brought to us by The Library of Congress.
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The Library of Congress
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Moving Image Archive
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Our goal in digitizing these movies and putting them online is to provide easy access to a rich and fascinating core collection of archival films. [325]
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This resource provide access to a rich archive of movies including old advertisements, propaganda of the '50s, educational files, etc. The clips could be included as multimedia components of lessons or incorporated into digital products by students.
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Internet Archive
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Mysteries of the Nile
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Explore the Pyramids, temples, and other monumental architecture of ancient Egypt through riveting 360° photos shot during this NOVA/PBS Online Adventure.
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PBS
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NationMaster.Com
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Welcome to NationMaster.com, a handy way to graphically compare nations. Using the form, you can generate graphs with ease on all kinds of statistics. What's more, you can select exactly which countries you want to include. [399]
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NationMaster.com
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NOVA | Einstein\
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How would 10 top physicists—two Nobel Prize winners among them—describe Einstein's equation to curious non-physicists? Listen online by selecting Play All or choose individual clips below. Listen offline by downloading clips, or subscribe to our podcast. [537]
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PBS/NOVA
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Open Video Project
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While many digital image projects and archives offer a few brief video clips
of historical and other interests, the Open Video Project contains close to
2000 digitized clips and complete short films, and will be of great interest
to those researching visual culture. Sponsored and developed at the
Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library
Science and the University of North Carolina, the project began in 1998 with
approximately 195 video segments. The archive available here provides video
clips from a variety of sources, including quite a few obtained from U.S.
government agencies. The entire archive may be searched by keyword, or
browsed by genre, duration, or thematic collection. There are some rather
compelling files to peruse here, including a collection of classic early
television commercials (including one for Jello), a short silent film titled
2 A.M in the subway, and an educational film titled A is for Atom, produced
by the General Electric Company. [462]
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University of North Carolina
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PiNet Library -- The Landmark Project
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This site contains samples of Greek and Latin prose and poetry texxts, read by various scholars and in different styles. It is designed to help students of the classical languages to acquaint themselves with the sound of Greek and Latin and to practice their own reading skills. [383]
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Princeton University
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Radio Days
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A wealth of information about radio and its day and times. [259]
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James F. Widner
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Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS)
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At any particular time, the Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) is involved in providing visualization products, systems, and expertise to various NASA projects and missions. This page briefly describes our current activities, with links to more information. You can see a listing of series of SVS animations. [363]
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NASA
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T.rex the Killer Question
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This is the companion Web site to a new _Tyrannosaurus rex_ exhibit at the
Natural History Museum in London. The exhibit explores evidence that this
famous dinosaur may have actually been a scavenger, not the ferocious
predator we all know and love. Virtual visitors can weigh some of the
evidence for themselves with Predator or Scavenger? [422]
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This site is an excellent way to convey to students that there are still many misteries, even about the past that scientists continue to investigate and explain.
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The Natural History Museum
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Televisioncommercials.com
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They make us laugh, they make us spend money, they define our culture. They are commercials. This is an online database of television commercials in streaming video and audio. Great for history, media literacy, and for fun. [93]
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Televisioncommercials.com
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The Classical Music Archives
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A large archive of MIDI files of classical works organized by style and composer. [242]
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These MIDI files can help music teachers to illustrate nuances of music perhaps better than when listening to a full orchestra. The music can also be played between classes as a mood setter.
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Pierre R. Schwob
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The Dynamic Earth
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The reason we know that glaciers covered certain areas of the globe while
continental plates buckled elsewhere is because of rocks. Thanks to these
gatekeepers of the past, we are better able to understand the earth's
history and the present. The National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution, offers this really interactive and engaging site to teach about
science of the earth. The three main sections of the site include: Rocks at
Earth's Surface, Rocks Below Earth's Surface, and Mining. [409]
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Smithsonian Institution, The National Museum of Natural History
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The History Channel
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This is perhaps on of the most valuable and powerful history resources on the Internet. One of the more intriguing features of this site is the archive of recorded speeches from the past 100 years or so.
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The History Channel
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The History Place -- Great Speeches
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Another archive of famous and infamous speeches including some less frequently found on the web. Authors include:
- Susan B. Anthony
- Frederick Douglass
- Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
- Maximilien Robespierre
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The History Place
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The Jazz Age Page
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An archive of text, images, and sounds of the Jazz Age, the 1920s. [236]
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This site has many resources for constructing reports and presentations about the Roaring Twenties. Students might also use the audio files as part of their F2F presentations or multimedia products.
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R. Richard Savill
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The Open Science Project: Molecule Viewers and Editors
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This metasite is an excellent resource for chemical researchers and educators. It provides links to three free software programs:
JchemPaint, Jmol, and OpenChem. JchemPaint, developed at the Max
Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, is a Java program for drawing 2-D chemical structures. [212]
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Students may be motivated by being able to create their own 2D renderings of molecules. There may be a way to turn this into a contest.
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The Open Science Project
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The Open Video Project
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The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization, and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. Because researchers attempting to solve similar problems will have access to the same video content, the repository is also intended to be used as a test collection that will enable systems to be compared, similar to the way the TREC conferences are used for text retrieval. [491]
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The Open Video Project
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The Original Old Time Radio (OTR) WWW Pages. Old-Time Radio at its Best
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If you are interested in radio programs from "radio's golden age", these are the WWW pages for you. They are filled with many entertaining and educational topics for fans of nostalgic / old-time radio shows.
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The Original Old Time Radio
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The Real Thirteen Days: The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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The National Security Archive
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The Vincent Voice Library
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This site includes WAV and MPEG2 files of many U.S. Presidents going back to Benjamin Harrison. Talks include:
- William McKinley in one of his front porch speeches
- William H. Taft talks about having a sense of humor
Also included are Florence Nightingale and Will Rogers. [102]
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Michigan State University
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US Centennial of Flight Home Page
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At the heart of this site is the celebration of the Wright Brothers first Powered flight, here in North Carolina. The bulk of materials fall into three main sections: the timeline, essays,
and images. The essays provide helpful background reading on almost every
topic related to flight, ranging from the aerospace industry, inflight
refueling, air power, commercial aviation, and aerodynamics. The timeline
can be searched by year, keyword, or category. The image database can be
searched by category, most of which correspond to topical themes delineated
by the essays. For those looking to attend events related to the centennial,
a searchable calendar of events is also provided. [393]
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Fantastic video clips for use in the classroom. The timeline will also make a great story-starter tool.
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U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission
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VirtualTuner.com
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This website links to Real Audio radio stations from the US and Europe. Across the ocean, you can listen to radio stations from more than 30 countries including one station in Liechtenstein. If your class is studying Europe and you have classroom access to the Internet, then students can listen to a radio station from the country they are studying while working on classwork. [52]
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VirtualTuner.com
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Visible Earth
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The goal of Visible Earth is to provide a consistently updated central catalog/collection point to the superset of Earth science-related visualizations and images. These images will be useful to the
interested public-at-large, as well as representatives of the media, scientists, and educators. Whether it be for personal use or for presentations, hopefully this collection and its organization will provide maximum benefit. [222]
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This resource provides a wealth of media that can be used for presentation by teachers and for special projects by students.
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NASA
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Voices from the Dust Bowl
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Voices in casual talk and song in the migrant camps of California, 1940 to 1941. Includes MP3 files and other formats. [264]
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Between World War I and World War II, teaching about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression can be a challenge. Including voices from the time might serve to excite your students about this defining time.
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The Library of Congress
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Voices of Civil Rights :: Home
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AARP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) have teamed up to collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all. We invite you to explore this site, which serves as both a living memorial to those who were a part of the civil rights experience and a tribute to the quest for equality that continues today. Begin by learning about the power of a story.
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AARP
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Voices of the Civil Rights Era
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This site includes sound files (.wav) of major speeches of President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X. Because the files are .wav files, you can download and archive them for later use and for use away from the Internet. [111]
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Webcorp
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WeatherCAMs
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UM Weather's newly-expanded WeatherCams page provides access to over 800 weather cameras across North America, the largest list on the web! [221]
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This resource can be used in a number of ways, from identifying terrain of various locations, recording social characteristics.
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UM Weather
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Wired for Books
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For many years, most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. The one-on-one interviews typically lasted 30 to 45 minutes and then had to be edited down to a two-minute radio show. Wired for Books is proud to make these important oral documents publicly available for the first time in their entirety. Listen to the voices of many of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. [518]
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Ohio University Telecommunications Center
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World Heritage Tour
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The purpose of the World Heritage Tour site is to offer greater exposure to
the truly diverse set of cultural heritage sites designated by UNESCO around
the world. While there are over 750 cultural and natural sites on the World
Heritage List, only 52 sites are currently covered on the site. The site
itself features over 250 virtual reality movies from 52 sites, ranging from
the Philippines to Egypt. Visitors can browse a list of sites currently
covered, with each list noting how many virtual reality movies are
available, along with providing the UNESCO identification number assigned to
each site. From the site's homepage visitors can sign up to be notified when
new movies become available, contact staff members, and read a paper about
the World Heritage Tour. -- [QuickTime VR] [430]
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WHTour.net
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