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BBC - A History of the World - About - British Museum - 100 Objects - 8 views

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    This is a really cool site! There is also a podcast to accompany each object. There is an audio podcast and an enlargeable graphic of the object. These are great to use as bellwork, or within a lesson, or even as homework! I usually devise my own set of question(s) to go with the podcast and object - whether quiz style questions or longer discussion style questions.
HistoryGrl14 .

The Differentiator - 0 views

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    Differentiating objectives
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    cool application to create objectives and goals for lessons! Can help you see possibilities
Michelle DeSilva

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tour - 3 views

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    The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
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    The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
Bob Maloy

5 ways women influenced politics before they got to vote | National Museum of American ... - 2 views

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    Women did the following: 1) persuade male voters; 2) crusades against social evils; 3) compelling narratives; 4) political organizing; and 5) transforming everyday objects in political vehicles
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    Women did the following: 1) persuade male voters; 2) crusades against social evils; 3) compelling narratives; 4) political organizing; and 5) transforming everyday objects in political vehicles
Lance Mosier

OurStory : Find Books - 10 views

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    A project of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, OurStory is designed to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through children's literature, everyday objects, and hands-on activities.
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    I manage the online outreach programs at NMAH. I'd love to hear from anyone who is using OurStory or our teacher site Smithsonian's History explorer. We're getting ready to do some site updates and would appreciate good constructive feedback.
David Hilton

A History of the World in 100 objects › The British Museum - 15 views

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    This interesting series from the British Museum has an accompanying podcast easily downloadable on iTunes. 
spoutnik ogik

musée du quai Branly: highlights visits - 2 views

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    "the musée du quai Branly carried out the 3D digitisation of several hundred objects. The 3D flash tour invites you to discover a selection, accompanied by cards and detailed descriptions. "
David Hilton

The Object of History | Behind the Scenes with the Curators of the National Museum of A... - 14 views

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    Might be a great resource for a lesson using historical artefacts or during an archaeology unit.
Kay Cunningham

Why preserve books? The new physical archive of the Internet Archive, by Brewster Kahle... - 3 views

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    'Internet Archive is building a physical archive for the long term preservation of one copy of every book, record, and movie we are able to attract or acquire. Because we expect day-to-day access to these materials to occur through digital means, the our physical archive is designed for long-term preservation of materials with only occasional, collection-scale retrieval. Because of this, we can create optimized environments for physical preservation and organizational structures that facilitate appropriate access. A seed bank might be conceptually closest to what we have in mind: storing important objects in safe ways to be used for redundancy, authority, and in case of catastrophe.'
Deven Black

picturing the thirties - 14 views

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    Learn about the 1930s through eight exhibitions: The Depression, The New Deal, The Country, Industry, Labor, The City, Leisure, and American People. Artworks from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection are supplemented with other primary source materials such as photographs, newsreels, and artists' memorabilia. Users can explore this virtual space and find information by clicking on people and objects. Visitors can gather artworks and place them in their bin for later documentary production. The theater's feature presentation is a series of interviews produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Abstract Artists Describe the 1930s. Additionally, user-created documentaries can be viewed from the theater's balcony. Go to the theater's projection booth to find PrimaryAccess and a movie-making tutorial.
Eric Beckman

Hayakawa Shōkosai I | Bowler Hat | Japan | Meiji period (1868-1912) | The Met - 1 views

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    Intriguing item from Meiji Japan, combines traditional and western influence. Useful object for student inquiry
Kay Bear

Mobile Museum Service - 6 views

I am conducting some general Market Research in relation to launching a new National mobile Museum Service that will provide a dynamic and flexible on-line and remotely accessible Museum service to...

started by Kay Bear on 15 Jul 12 no follow-up yet
Iris Yin

art sideshow to compare 3 "religions of the book" - 17 views

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    Teaching Comparative Religion Through Art and Architecture Center for Middle Eastern Studies - University of California - Berkeley Three Monotheistic Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam Objectives: This exercise is intended in part to communicate information about the three major monotheistic religions of the Middle East--Judaism, Christianity and Islam--about beliefs, events, symbols, institutions and practices important to the three religions.
Natalie Jounquay

EMPIRE17.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) - 8 views

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    Awesome flash vid of empires expanding/declining based on Middle East.
David Hilton

Museum Artifacts - Smithsonian's History Explorer - 0 views

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    High-quality, well-organised images of selected artefacts from the Smithsonian, with accompanying information. Great for student research into American material culture.
David Hilton

SPIRO - 1 views

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    Searchable database of images of buildings, objects, people, etc. Is run out of UC Berkeley so will probably focus on West Coast USA. That's just a guess though.
Ed Webb

How we remember them: the 1914-18 war today | openDemocracy - 6 views

  • After the war, however, the problem of reintegrating into society both those who had served and those who had lost, and finding a narrative that could contain both, found one answer by an emphasis on the universality of heroism. A British society that has since the 1960s grown increasingly distant from the realities of military service - whilst remaining dedicated to it as a location for fantasy - has been unable to move on from this rhetorical standpoint
  • The war's portrayal has always been shaped by contemporary cultural mores, and commemorative documentaries demonstrate just how much the relationship between the creators and consumers of popular culture has changed over the last fifty years. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1914, the BBC commissioned the twenty-six part series The Great War, based around archive footage and featuring interviews with veterans. There was an authoritative narrative voice, but no presenters. For the eightieth anniversary, it collaborated with an American television company on a six-part series littered with academic talking-heads. For the ninetieth anniversary, it has had a range of TV presenter-celebrities - among them Michael Palin, Dan Snow, Natalie Cassidy and Eamonn Holmes - on a journey of discovery of their families' military connections. These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect.   The focus of these programmes - family history as a means of understanding the past - is worthy of note in itself. It is indicative of the dramatic growth of family history as a leisure interest, perhaps in response to the sense of dislocation inherent in modernity
  • The search for family history is usually shaped by modern preconceptions, and as such it seldom results by itself in a deeper understanding of the past. The modern experience of finding someone who shares your surname on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, taking a day trip to France and finding his grave (perhaps with a cathartic tear or few) might increase a person's or family's sense of emotional connection to the war, and may bring other satisfactions. Insofar as it is led not by a direct connection with a loved one, however, but by what television has "taught" as right conduct, it can seldom encourage a more profound appreciation of what the war meant for those who fought it, why they kept fighting, or why they died.
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  • Projects such as The Great War Archive, which combine popular interest in the war with specialist expertise, and which recognise that an archive is different from a tribute or a memorial, suggest that it is possible to create high-quality content based on user submissions.
  • the exploitation of popular enthusiasm to encourage thought, rather than to enforce the "correct" opinion
  • It is certainly true that the 1914-18 war is popularly seen as the "bad war" and 1939-45 as the "good war." I think the one view is sustained in order to support the other. Although no expert, it seems to me that in reality the two world wars were marked more by their similarities than their differences (Europe-wide military/imperial rivalry causes collapse of inadequate alliance system > Germany invades everywhere > everywhere invades Germany). However, there is an extreme reluctance in Britain to admit that WW2 was anything other than a Manichean struggle between the elves and the orcs, so WW1 becomes a kind of dumping-ground for a lot of suppressed anxiety and guilt which might otherwise accrue to our role in WW2 - just as it might in any war. So we make a donkey out of Haig in order to sustain hagiographic views of Churchill. "Remembrance" of both wars continues to be a central feature of British public consciousness to an extraordinary, almost religious degree, and I think this has a nostalgic angle as well: if "we" squint a bit "we" can still tell ourselves that it was "our" last gasp as a global power. Personally I think it's all incredibly dodgy. "Remembrance," it seems to me, is always carried out in a spirit of tacit acceptance that the "remembered" war was a good thing. Like practically all of the media representation of the current war, Remembrance Day is a show of "sympathy" for the troops which is actually about preventing objective views of particular wars (and war in general) from finding purchase in the public consciousness. It works because it's a highly politicised ritual which is presented as being above politics and therefore above criticism. All these things are ways of manipulating the suffering of service personnel past and present as a means of emotionally blackmailing critics of government into silence. I reckon anyway.
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