Global Nomads Group: Project Voice: After The War
http://www.gng.org/projectvoice/index.html
Global Nomads Group is a Non-profit organization that promotes understanding among the world's youth. GNG transcends national and cultural boundaries by bringing young people from around the world together, face-to-face, to discuss today's world. As part of GNG's Project Voice, days before the US-led invasion of Iraq in March, 2003, a small group of Iraqi High School students from Baghdad College and American Students from the Metropolitan Learning Center in Connecticut met face-to-face via a videoconference. They discussed their lives, and the impending war. In June, 2003 the group met once again to share their post-war feelings and reactions. The Webcast of the meeting can be viewed at this Web site. There is also a very interesting online diary and a list of quality links for information on Iraq. This site is very educational and the general public could benefit from watching the Webcast. The site might also be a good educational resource for High school and College students. [TJS]
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Historic Pelham
http://www.historicpelham.com
Pelham, New York is a city rich with history, dating back to 1654 when Thomas Pell purchased the land from the Siwanoy Native American Indian tribe. The history of the city is detailed in a timeline that begins in the 1500s and includes significant event such as the Battle of Pelham fought in 1776 and the Pelhamville Train Wreck in 1885. This site also highlights some of the more famous people who have ties to Pelham. For example, it is rumored that Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in an infamous duel in 1804, spent a couple summers in Pelham with his wife. In addition to historical information on the city of Pelham, the Web site includes a section with ghost stories and legends, photographs of the city, and descriptions of historical landmarks. [KH]
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Agilent Technologies: Engineering and the Guitar
http://www.educatorscorner.com/index.cgi?CONTENT_ID=371
This series of five introductory modules comes from Agilent Technologies' massive Educator's Corner Web site. It is mainly intended to teach high school students about some of the most fundamental principles of engineering, using a guitar to demonstrate concepts like frequency and tensile strength. At the same time, the material stresses the importance of critical thinking and taking an analytical approach to problems -- characteristics that are the sign of a good engineer. To encourage this mentality, the modules lead the user through a basic derivation of the formula for the frequency of vibration of a guitar string. This is initially done with very little hard math; rather, the derivation is primarily based on intuition, and it can be verified with mathematical analysis. This site is also reviewed in the July 18, 2003 NSDL MET Report. [CL]
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By the Way Online
http://www.btwmagazine.com/
Road Age Media produces content for the heritage travel industry, focusing on back roads and main streets. Their fun and informative publication, By the Way Magazine, finds the "gems of the back roads" across America. Their colorful Web site offers the current issue as well as archived features and reports. The Features section on the site offers video reports of various interesting topics such as vintage diners on the move. The latest report follows Minella's Main Line Diner as it leaves its birthplace in Wayne, PA. Check out the gift shop to purchase back issues of the print edition, post card booklets, and a Diner Finder guide. Whether you are looking to discover gems of the backroads in your own hometown or planning a trip across America, this site and magazine are well worth stopping at along the way. [TJS]
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Amnesty International-Report 2003 [pdf]
http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/index-eng
Amnesty International recently released its 2003 Report, which "documents human rights abuses in 151 countries and territories during 2002" and "is a contribution to the work of human rights defenders struggling to achieve a safer world, a world where human rights take priority over political, military or economic interests." Those interested will find summaries of human rights situations around the world and Amnesty International's specific concerns in each. Although the full report must be ordered for a small charge, the Web site contains a significant amount of information including a message from the Secretary General, a 2002 "in focus" section, a description of Amnesty's activities, news stories, multimedia products, regional summaries, and information on each nation's specific activities. [JAB]
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Backcheck: A Hockey Retrospective [Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/hockey/index-e.html
In Canada, to grow up with ice in your veins is considered a terrifically good thing. For well over a hundred years, Canadians have lived --almost symbiotically-- with ice hockey. While their American neighbors claim ownership over a multitude of cultural identities --like baseball and basketball-- to varying degrees of seriousness, Canadians truly eat, sleep, and breath hockey as the sole definition of who they are. This site, produced by the National Library of Canada, does an exceptional job of providing visitors with very well arranged material reflecting on the history of hockey in Canada. In fact, while very few Web sites provide much of interest on their home pages, the letter of introduction by Roch Carrier truly makes you want to delve into Backcheck and take in some of this fascinating history. The site includes several historical articles, the gems of the site, that take you all the way back to the patent of the ice skate and the introduction of women in hockey --including a picture of Lord Stanley's daughter playing hockey circa 1890 (thought to be the earliest photograph of women playing the sport). Also a part of the site is a small, but interesting, educational resources section including lessons for grades 4 through 12. Check it out. [JPM]
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World Heritage: Welcome to the Wet Tropics [pdf]
http://www.wettropics.gov.au/
This Web site serves as a visitor’s guide to tropical North Queensland’s World Heritage Area -- "the sort of place you could travel to over and over again and still not see everything." The same might be said of this incredibly comprehensive Web site, which provides pages and pages of information about Australia’s wet tropics. Virtual visitors can read up on the flora and fauna of the region, check out some of the sights, learn about Aboriginal culture, and much more. The site also offers a downloadable Cassowary Education Kit (for grades 5-7) and a Wet Tropics Library, providing "a comprehensive and easy to access collection of information related to the Wet Tropics and the Wet Tropics Management Authority." [RS]
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