Research and Education
The Lannan Foundation was founded in 1960 by J. Patrick Lannan, Sr., a self-educated scholar and financier who believed in the cultural importance of innovative and controversial forms of visual and literary art. As the mission statement notes, the Foundation supports these types of long-term projects, along with "inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities." Specifically, the program areas supported by the Foundation include the visual arts, literature, indigenous communities, and cultural freedom. At the homepage, visitors may learn about these various initiatives, along with the readings and programs sponsored by the Foundation, many of which take place in Santa Fe, where the Foundation is located. There are two very valuable resources on the site for the general public, namely the audio archives section and the Bookworm area. The audio archives contain over 65 audio programs that feature some of the many writers that have been part of the Reading & Conversations series sponsored by the Foundation. Visitors can listen to any of these recordings, which feature such individuals as Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, Mark Strand, Eduardo Galeano, and Billy Collins. The Bookworm section contains archived programs from the nationally syndicated radio interview program, and features such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, and Oliver Sacks. [KMG]
Working together to establish an internet presence, journalism.org is the brainchild of the Project of Excellence in Journalism and the Committee of Concerned Journalists. The Web site effectively serves as a portal and utility for persons interested in journalism, and contains a catalog of tools, techniques and ideas, empirical research, job links, and numerous other helpful materials for the general public, practicing journalists, and journalism students. Visitors can move to any of the site's sections from the homepage, and they will most certainly want to peruse the new quarterly online newsletter that is available. The site also features a number of research reports for the general public, dealing with such topics as Jessica Lynch: Media Myth-Making in the Iraq War, Quality and the Bottom Line and Does Ownership Matter in Local Television News. Overall, the site is a good resource for persons interested in print and television journalism, and will be of specific interest to those studying journalism. [KMG]
Stretching from Russia in the east to Portugal in the west, Eurostadiums.com is dedicated to providing a host of images and information about the hundreds of soccer stadiums across Europe. Visitors can feel free to use the search engine provided on the homepage, or they may elect to use a clickable map of Europe to browse through the stadiums currently covered by the site. The stadiums of the United Kingdom are well covered, ranging from Celtic Park (home of Celtic Glasgow) in Scotland all the way to The Den in London, which serves as the home of the Millwall Football Club. As a bonus feature, some prominent soccer stadiums in other countries (such as the United States, Germany and Japan) are also covered. Finally, visitors may also sign the site's guestbook and look through a list of additional soccer related Web sites. [KMG]
Designed for young people, this multimedia site that takes as its theme About Work was funded by the government of Saskatchewan, and provides a number of insights into the various work activities of people in this Prairie province from the First Nations groups to the present day. Using an embedded timeline, visitors can elect to browse through one of the four temporal periods, and read stories about various work activities, including such activities as fur trading and buffalo hunts. Each written story is complemented by various images, and the text contains highlighted terms for which additional information is offered in a small balloon that appears above the text. Each timeline section also contains a short video, a highly interactive map of the region (with themes that can be toggled on and off), and a help feature. Visually stimulating and interactive, this well-designed learning tool will help young people learn about this sometimes neglected region of Canada. [KMG]
Started in 1993 after a government white paper called for more coherence in the reporting and collection of higher education statistics in the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is "the central source for higher education statistics." Not surprisingly, the site features a detailed area devoted to publications and data sets available from the HESA, some of which are available for no cost on the Web site, and others which may be ordered on CD-ROM. There are also a number of data sets available at no charge that may be viewed and printed, or downloaded for free. The data sets are mostly from 1994 to 2002, and include statistics on students (such as ethnicity, subject of study, and institution level), staff, and institutional incomes and expenditures. The site is rounded out with a collection of related links that lead to related government bodies and funding councils. [KMG]
http://www.cio.com/research/behavior/
This virtual research center has numerous resources that address the role human behavior plays in the development of the Internet and, conversely, how the Internet affects human behavior. Most of the site's content is in the form of online articles that deal with some aspect of this broad topic. The articles are generally from two magazines published by the company that operates the site, but occasionally an external source is cited as well. Several topic pages separate the site into distinct themes, such as Privacy and Ethics, Human-Web Interaction, and more. Many excellent insights into the "relationship between humanity and the Web" can be gleaned from the articles that are archived at this site. This site is also reviewed in the October 10, 2003 NSDL MET Report. [CL]
Located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Ancient World Mapping Center is funded by the UNC College of Arts and Sciences and the American Philological Association. The Center is primarily designed to promote the usage of cartography and geographic information science within the field of ancient studies. The Center's main web page begins with a host of recent news events related to ongoing research dealing with the ancient world from various fields, including geography, archaeology, and history. Equally helpful is the New Sites and Finds area, which gathers together new and useful sites dedicated to investigating various aspects of the ancient world. Of course there is also the map room area where visitors can download any one of a number of detailed maps (many of which have been created by the staff at the Center) of the ancient world. Some of these maps include those of Byzantine Constantinople, Ptolemaic Egypt, and several of ancient Greece. [KMG]
http://www.classicsunveiled.com
Classics Unveiled was developed by Neil Jenkins, Sumair Mirza and Jason Tang as a way to teach the web-browsing public about the various aspects of the ancient world, ranging from the massive world of Greek and Roman mythology, Roman history, Roman culture, and the Latin language and its pervasive influence on English. The site is divided into four primary areas, and visitors may opt to browse through any of them and their accompanying features, which include primary extended essays and informative games and quizzes. In Rome Exposed for example, users will learn about Roman residences, entertainment, attire, cuisine, and several other aspects of Roman culture and mores. In MythNET visitors can learn about the twelve Olympian gods, read about the Trojan War, and explore genealogical charts that trace the various relationships between the pantheon of Rome and Greece. [KMG]
