http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 22 May 2013 19:27:02 PDT Wed, 22 May 2013 19:27:02 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90891 Extensive information about the Victorian era is available in sections such as: the Victorians, political history, social history, gender matters, philosophy, religion, science, technology, genre and technique, authors, viusal arts, Victorian design, and much more. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89686 Presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, The Webby Awards is the preeminent honor for Web sites. It is an institution dedicated to testing the intersection of culture and technology and to finding the most influential people and the best works in emerging technologies. The annual Webby Awards feature 25 categories, Activism, Broadband, Commerce, Community, Education, Fashion, Film, Finance, Games, Government & Law, Health, Humor, Kids, Living, Music, News, Personal Web Sites, Politics, Print & Zines, Radio, Science, Services, Spirituality, Sports, TV, Travel, and Weird. The 2004 Webby Awards nominees exemplify the kinds of sites that Internet users should visit every day for information and entertainment. In addition, The Academy honors individuals for significant achievements and major contributions that have shaped the industry. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=84349 The WorldImages database contains almost 50,000 images, is global in coverage and is not limited to art. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images can be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images can be located using many search techniques, and for convenience they are organized into some 440 portfolios. Portfolio categories include the following WorldImages sets:Art & Art History,Cultural & Social Interactions,History, Politics & Warfare,Science, Technology & Mathematics,Music, Drama & Literature,Natural World,People & Portraits,Religion, Myth & Magic, andMaterial Culture & Daily Life. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=85071 The ARTstor Image Gallery will serve as the beginning of a broad and deep online resource for the teaching and research in the arts, humanities and social sciences - a resource that will be expanded and updated continuously over time with the help of a range of institutional and individual partners. Among the significant early contributors has been the University of California, San Diego, which has allowed ARTstor to digitize significant portions of its well-photographed and professionally cataloged slide library. At present, the majority of the images in the Image Gallery are, like the majority of the images routinely employed by teachers in art history and related fields, derived from 35mm color slides made from high-quality reproductions in the scholarly literature. The Image Gallery is meant to offer the scale and cohesion typically associated with an academic slide and photograph collection. In its initial phase, the Image Gallery includes over 200,000 images made from slides created in response to fairly representative teaching needs in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Registered users can download an offline image viewer. Documents are available to explain about ARTstor's Standards & Policies, including Image Quality, Descriptive Data,Technology, Permitted Uses, and Intellectual Property. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=300557 University Library of Regensburg offers the "Electronic Journals Library," which contains over 25,000 titles, of which over 10,500 journals can be read free-of-charge. There are journal articles in the following areas: Agriculture, Archeaology, Civil engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Art, Computer Science, Education, Economics, History, Mathematics, Media, Medicine, Linguistics, Philosophy, Sociology, Science,Technology and many more. For more information about Electronic Journals Library see: http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml?bibid=AAAAA&colors=7&lang=en. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=287739 MIT OCW is a large scale, web-based electronic publishing initiative whose goals are to : Provide free, searchable access to MIT's course materials for educators, students an self - learners around the world, and extend the reach and impact of MIT OCW and the "open courseware" concept. There are courses available in the following areas:Architecture and Planning, Engineering, Health Sciences and Technology, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Management, Science, Atheltics, Physical Education and Recreation, Experimental Study Group and Special Programs. This website also contains the following features: images/graphics, links to related material,learning assignments and teacher's guide to help further understand the courses. For more information about MIT Open Courseware Collections go to: http://ocw.mit.edu http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=85196 The SMITHSONIAN website is almost as fascinating as visiting the museums. It hasinformation about exhibits and upcoming events, affiliated museums, and research. Someof the subjects that are covered on the website are Art and Design, History and Culture,and Science and Technology. This site is multilingual, offering about a dozen languagesincluding, Chinese, Dutch, Arabic, Japanese, and French. You can also look at thepublications and magazines the Smithsonian offers and shop at the gift shop. This siteprovides any information that a visitor would desire including, contact information, hoursof operation, locations, and group tours. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=405844 This website is great for inspiring our youth to explore various careers. The site offers a fun formula for exploring careers depending upon one's interest. It is cleverly divided into "interest" categories such as; music, medicine, law, technology, art / design, sports, exploration, science and math. The goal is for students to explore different areas while relating them to what they enjoy. Students will find many games and job descriptions and might be cleverly surprised to find careers that they might have not known existed. It is enormously helpful for planting a seed on the importance of college in respect to career choices. What a great tool for getting students to start thinking about how they can use their talents and interests professionally! http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=225832 River City Project is a National Science Foundation-supported multi-user simulation environment for learning scientific inquiry and 21st century skills. It is an interactive computer simulation of a river town, based in the late 1800s, that combines digitalized Smithsonian artifacts with an inquiry-centered curriculum to engage middle and high school students. As visitors to River City, students travel back in time, bringing their 21st century skills and technology to address 19th century problems. River City Project is a National Science Foundation-supported multi-user simulation environment for learning scientific inquiry and 21st century skills. It is an interactive computer simulation of a river town, based in the late 1800s, that combines digitalized Smithsonian artifacts with an inquiry-centered curriculum to engage middle and high school students. As visitors to River City, students travel back in time, bringing their 21st century skills and technology to address 19th century problems. Contributors in implementing River City includes, The National Science Foundation, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, approximately 60 teachers and almost 4,000 students on two continents (North America and Australia).   River City Project is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and is provided free of charge to schools. Those who are interested in cooperating with the River City Project can join with the team. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=591427 In this seminar, students will design and perfect a digital environment to house the activities of large-scale organizations of people making bottom-up decisions, such as with citizen-government affairs, voting corporate shareholders or voting members of global non-profits and labor unions. A working Open Source prototype created last semester will be used as the starting point, featuring collaborative filtering and electronic agent technology pioneered at the Media Lab. This course focuses on development of online spaces as part of an interdependent human environment, including physical architectures, mapped work processes and social/political dimensions. A cross-disciplinary approach will be taken; students with background in architecture, urban planning, law, cognition, business, digital media and computer science are encouraged to participate. No prior technical knowledge is necessary, though a rudimentary understanding of web page creation is helpful.