"The Film
The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute film that takes viewers on a provocative and eye-opening tour of the real costs of our consumer driven culture-from resource extraction to iPod incineration.
Annie Leonard, an activist who has spent the past 10 years traveling the globe fighting environmental threats, narrates the Story of Stuff, delivering a rapid-fire, often humorous and always engaging story about "all our stuff-where it comes from and where it goes when we throw it away."
Leonard examines the real costs of extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal, and she isolates the moment in history where she says the trend of consumption mania began. The Story of Stuff examines how economic policies of the post-World War II era ushered in notions of "planned obsolescence" and "perceived obsolescence" -and how these notions are still driving much of the U.S. and global economies today. Leonard's inspiration for the film began as a personal musing over the question, "Where does all the stuff we buy come from, and where does it go when we throw it out?" She traveled the world in pursuit of the answer to this seemingly innocent question, and what she found along the way were some very guilty participants and their unfortunate victims. "
"Welcome to Civil War Animated
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good animation is worth ten thousand. After reading book after book about the US Civil War and finding only complicated maps with dotted lines and dashed lines crisscrossing the pages, we decided to depict the key naval and land battles using animation technology."
"The map as history
The largest on-line collection of animated historical maps
* For students: a learning tool to increase comprehension and retention
* For teachers: a ready-made teaching tool to add visual impact in the classroom
* For history buffs: new technology to add new perspectives
Our on-line maps use animation, color and narration to bring history to life."
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See the 2010 nominations (PDF), as chosen by the fifteen book groups from YA Galley!
Promote the titles at your library with the 2010 Teens' Top Ten toolkit (Word doc), including program ideas, customizable reproducibles, and more.
YALSA is accepting applications from teen book groups for 2010-2012. Apply to be part of YA Galley.
Voting for the Teens' Top Ten will take place in August and September at this website, with the winner announced during Teen Read Week 2010."
from the site:
"Mission
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
The principal objectives of the WDL are to:
* Promote international and intercultural understanding;
* Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
* Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
* Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries. "
educational games built around science and social studies concepts, arranged into the following categories: peace games, war games, nation state/ politics games, environment games, climate change, energy games, and food games.
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
There are now nearly 700 maps. Maps 1-366 are also available as PDF posters. Use the menu above to find a map of interest.
Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces
