http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/nye/index.html

Captain Pearl R. Nye was a man cut from a bit of different cloth, and his life and the music he loved so dearly are celebrated as part of this wonderful online collection created by the staff members of the Library of Congress’s American Memory Project. Nye was born in 1872 and raised on a canal boat on the Ohio and Erie Canal. He was committed to preserving the songs and stories that were part of the Canal’s very essence, and this website features recordings of 75 songs sung by Nye. First-time visitors should look over the timeline of related events that span both Nye’s personal history and that of the Canal. Then they can also read through the two informative essays offered here, including “An Informant in Search of a Collector: Captain Pearl R. Nye of Ohio”, authored by Rebecca B. Schroeder. Visitors should then listen to the songs, which include such ditties as “Lord Vaniford’s Life” and “Mr. Frog”. [KMG]

http://campustechnology.com/

Campus Technology is a print magazine that has been tracking changes in the ways technology is harnessed on college campuses for years, and their website complements the magazine quite nicely. Here, visitors can read through sections that address current news items related to campus technology, take a look at their latest newsletter, and read articles from the print edition. One section that is particularly useful for those in the world of information technology is the “Resources” area. Here, visitors can look over white papers on distance learning advances, and sign up to take part in “webinars” that deal with data protection, web-based classrooms, and digital authentication. It’s a helpful website for anyone dealing with a host of technology-related issues in campus settings, and those who teach in college settings may also pick up a few technology tips for the classroom. [KMG]

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/

Novice journalists who hope to follow in the footsteps of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite or even Maria Shriver may find themselves puzzled about how to start in the world of multimedia reporting. This lovely site, sponsored by the Knight Media Center, offers a number of tutorials that will help such persons learn about choosing a story, doing fieldwork, editing their piece, and even offer a few tips on shooting video. The site is divided into sections that provide tips on picking the right video camera for the assignment and those that give some useful information on the various audio recording devices that might come in handy. Students of multimedia journalism will want to let friends know about the site, and instructors working in this area can point students to this site as well. [KMG]

The International Virginia Woolf Society [pdf]
http://www.utoronto.ca/IVWS/
BBC Four: Virginia Woolf [Real Player]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/woolfv1.shtml

During her life, Virginia Woolf distinguished herself through her novels and her excellent essays. She is counted as an important influence by many of today’s preeminent writers, and there are a plethora of websites dedicated to her. The first website offered here leads to the homepage of the International Virginia Woolf Society, which is an allied organization of the Modern Language Association of America. On their site, visitors can learn about the events they sponsor, look over their annual bibliography of Woolf studies, and join up to receive the postings of the Virginia Woolf listserv. The next site is a real treat, as it leads to a seven minute excerpt of a radio feature recorded by the BBC in 1937. Here visitors can listen as Woolf gives “a eulogy to words”. It’s rather delightful, and those with a passion for Woolf will enjoy both websites. [KMG]

http://www.nydic.org/

The National Youth Development Information Center (NYDIC) was created with generous support from the John T. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and a number of other charitable organizations. The site is designed to function as a place for youth workers to look through information on funding, programming, research, policy, and job training opportunities. These materials are divided into sections that include “Funding”, “Programming”, and “Policy & Advocacy”.
The “Funding” section is quite well-developed, and interested parties can scroll through a list of available grants that include those that deal with crime prevention, youth education, and teen driver safety. The “Staffing & Training” section is a great resource for individuals who may be looking for a new position, as it features jobs in the field of youth development from across the country. [KMG]

http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourses.asp

The BBC has provided various distance-learning opportunities for listeners for decades, and this set of online materials reaches across the globe to provide anyone with an Internet connection a set of multimedia training exercises and tutorials. These particular guides and modules were originally designed for in-house use with BBC staff, and few editorial changes have been made in the interim. Visitors can browse through such sections as “Television”, “Radio”, “Broadcast Technology”, and “Journalism”. While some of the materials can bit a bit technical, there are many that provide basic operating procedures on creating effective radio interviews and editing existing video segments. Overall, it’s a fine site, and students and educators will benefit from the sage advice contained within these various teaching documents. [KMG]

http://www.learner.org/resources/series180.html

The field of geography is undergoing something of a renaissance, and more and more schools are including it in their basic curriculum. Educators (and the generally curious) will be delighted to learn about this informative series created by the Cambridge Studios in 2003. It has since made its way online to the Annenberg Media website, and it can be viewed in its entirety here. The series includes academic commentary from various scholars, maps, illustrative animations, and it covers a wide range of topics. Some of the individual episodes include “The Transforming Industrial Heartland”, “Global Interaction”, and “Ethnic Fragmentation in Canada”. Visitors can watch any of these twenty-six episodes after completing a free online registration form, and they can also look at a separate website created just for this particular program. [KMG]

http://dl.lib.brown.edu/sheetmusic/yiddish/

The Center for Digital Initiatives at Brown University has produced a number of excellent digital collections over the past years, including strong collections of digitized sheet music. The Yiddish Sheet Music collection continues in that tradition by offering a wide range of pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. Visitors can browse the collection by creator, title or even thumbnail images of the first page of each piece of music. The collection offers an inside glimpse into the world of Yiddish music that dominated many a stage in places like the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and for persons with an interest in cultural history or ethnomusicology, this site is a real find. [KMG]