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eduweb News - 5/16/06
eduweb Sites Win Prestigious International Awards
Two Web sites developed by eduweb in collaboration with its clients
have won prestigious Internet awards in the past month.
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2005 Pirelli INTERNETional Award for Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull
Space Telescope Science Institute.
This site, developed in collaboration with Space Telescope Science Institute astronomers Roeland van der Marel and Gijs Verdoes Kleijn, won the top prize
in the 2005 Pirelli INTERNETional Award competition, the first international multimedia contest for the communication of science and technology on the
Internet.
Awards were given in five categories ranging from physics to life sciences. An international jury, which included Nobel laureates Riccardo Giacconi
and Harold Kroto, selected the Pirelli award winners from 1,000 entries representing more than 50 countries. Black Holes won the award for physics
and also beat the other category winners to claim the top prize "for its ability to explore one of the most fascinating subjects of modern astrophysics
through an entertaining tool that also provides sound scientific content." The award comes with a $30,000 prize. eduweb principal David T. Schaller
attended the awards ceremony on May 16 with van der Marel at the Temple of Hadrian in Rome, Italy.
Go to Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull
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MUSE Awards: Jim Blackaby Ingeniuty Award and Bronze Award for Art Interpretation for Street to Studio: The art of Jean-Michel
Basquiat
Brooklyn Museum
This site won two MUSE Awards from the Media and Technology Standing Professional Committee of the American Association of Museums. Now in its 17th year,
the MUSE awards competition recognizes outstanding achievement in museum media. The competition received 108 applications from a wide variety of museums
in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. This is the fifth year running that eduweb projects have won MUSE Awards.
The Street to Studio site, developed with the Brooklyn Museum as an online companion to a traveling exhibition of Basquiat's art, won the Bronze
MUSE Award for Art Interpretation as well as the Jim Blackaby Ingenuity Award. The Blackaby Award "recognizes a project that exemplifies the power of
creative imagination in the use of media and technology — a project that has a powerful effect on its audience, and one that stands above the others
in inventiveness and quality."
David Schaller accepted both awards on behalf of the Brooklyn Museum at a champagne reception on April 27 at the 2006 American Association of Museums
Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. MUSE judges said the Street to Studio site was "the quintessential Blackaby project. It reaches
out to teens who, in the midst of their growing, learning, and suffering, find a kindred soul in the troubled artist, and in Basquiat's work they discover
a vocabulary that they speak and intrinsically understand."
Go to Street to Studio: The art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
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New Science Web Site - 5/15/06
Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull
Space Telescope Science Institute
Black holes are places where ordinary gravity has become so extreme that it overwhelms all other forces in the Universe. Once inside, nothing can escape a
black hole's gravity — not even light. Yet we know that black holes exist. We know how they are born, where they occur, and why they exist in different
sizes. We even know what would happen if you fell into one. Our discoveries have revealed one of the strangest objects in the Universe, and there's still much
we don't know. The nearest black hole is many lightyears away, so we don't have to worry about threats to the Earth. This is as close as you'll ever get to one.
So come explore!
eduweb's role: Concept and content development, interactivity design, visual design, illustration,
animation, programming, and production.
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New History and Technology Web Adventures - 11/3/05
U-505 On-line Activities
Museum of Science and Industry
At the height of World War II, the U.S. Navy captured a German U-boat submarine prowling off the waters of Africa. The American efforts to capture the
U-505, and the German struggle to prevail instead, illuminate the human experience of duty, courage, and survival during wartime. This site features two
games and an interactive timeline about that fateful day:
- Find the U-505: As an American sailor, use cutting-edge (for 1944) technologies to track down the U-boat.
- Command the U-505: As skipper of the U-505, use your wits to attack the Americans and evade capture.
- Capture! An interactive timeline featuring oral histories by the men who where there.
eduweb's role: Concept and content development, interactivity design, visual design, illustration, animation,
programming, production, and user testing.
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New Science Web Adventure - 10/31/05
Amazing Reef
John G. Shedd Aquarium
There are a thousand stories on the amazing reef, each more incredible than the last. Stories of life, friendship, hunger and survival. Which story will
you tell?
In this movie-making interactive, you can make an animated film about life on a coral reef. Choose an exciting story, cast colorful characters, and
animate the movie yourself. Then add music and titles to complete your movie. You can even keep it by downloading it to your own computer.
eduweb's role: Concept
development, interactivity design, content development, visual design, video production and editing,
programming, and production.
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New History Web Site - 10/21/05
Harvest of History
The Farmers' Museum
The history of New York State agriculture is the story of our collective past.
Harvest of History makes this story come alive. Explore an 1845 agricultural village to
find out where food came from then and now, how and where
it grows, and compare life in 1845 with our modern world. Then turn what you've learned into a video with the online videomaker.
The site also features hundreds of primary sources about agricultural and rural history, and an interdisciplinary
fourth-grade curriculum.
eduweb's role: Concept
development, interactivity design, content development, visual design, video production and editing,
programming, and site production.
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"The eduweb team brought professionalism, expertise, and creativity to our project. They have a unique understanding of
how museums can use the internet as an educational tool. They pushed us to think bigger and more creatively, while never losing sight of our mission and
project goals. The product is a highly polished, easily navigable, and content-rich website that helps The Farmers' Museum reach students and teachers
across New York State and beyond."
Hannah Weisman
Education Specialist
New York State Historical Association
and The Farmers' Museum
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eduweb projects win Museum Awards
Two Web sites developed by eduweb in collaboration with its clients
have won prestigious Muse Awards. The Muse Awards are a juried competition
conducted by the American Association of Museums' (AAM) Media and Technology
Committee. Since 1989, the MUSE Awards have recognized excellence in educational media
produced by or for museums. eduweb's winning projects are:
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- Bronze: Architect Studio 3D, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.
Architect Studio 3D brings to young architects everywhere
the exciting process of designing a home—hands-on. Starting as
real architects do, with a client who has lifestyle preferences and
a site that has its own environmental considerations, users draw on
their imagination to design their own architectural solutions. And
state-of-the-art 3D modeling technology allows you to enter your creation
to personally experience the space. The judges said, "An ambitious
and creative introduction to the considerations behind good architectural
design. Unlike most educational sites, it goes beyond didactic overviews
and invites users to participate actively by choosing a client and
a site and designing a structure to suit them. ArchitectStudio3D is
a creative learning experience with a lighthearted tone and interactivity
that fully realizes its goals with flair. Although created for ages
11 - 14, it will be useful to people of all ages."
Go to Architect Studio 3D
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- Special Recognition: No Master Over Me, Colonial Williamsburg.
eduweb developed the online activities for this Electronic Field Trip, which
also includes a live interactive video broadcast, teacher materials,
and online forums. The judges said, "An immensely sobering, evocative
and engaging story of the life of a free black woman during the days
of slavery. A sensitive subject well thought out and well presented
using familiar techniques to engage and teach. Once again, the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation have used every possible means of media delivery,
both old and new, to tell their stories. An impressive effort."
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New Science Web Site- 4/21/05
Zoo Matchmaker
Minnesota Zoo
How can zoos help save endangered species? By breeding them in captivity,
in hopes of someday releasing animals back into their original habitats.
This interactive places you in charge of a breeding program for endangered
tigers. Choose from several breeding plans, then make the best matches
to ensure tiger survival. Along the way, you'll learn about tiger genetics
and the basic rules of inheritance.
eduweb collaborated with Minnesota Zoo staff to develop the matchmaker
game concept, balancing challenging gameplay with substantial genetics
content. And by incorporating the same calculations used by real breeding
managers, the game accurately reflects the real-world challenges facing
zoos today.
eduweb's role: Concept
development, interactivity design, content development, visual design,
programming, production, and user testing.
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"eduweb did a wonderful job helping us translate a difficult topic (small population genetics in zoos) into an
entertaining, educational and user-friendly interactive for 7-12 grade students. We were extremely pleased with eduweb's process for creating, developing,
testing and implementing the Zoo Matchmaker interactive."
Grant Spickelmeyer
Education Programs Supervisor
Minnesota Zoo
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New Art Web Site - 3/10/05
Street to Studio: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
The Brooklyn Museum
The extraordinary artist Jean-Michel Basquiat created paintings and drawings
filled with imagery that describes his ideas about life and the world
around him. eduweb collaborated with staff at the Brooklyn Museum and
its partner museums to develop this web site and kiosk program for a traveling
exhibition about Basquiat. Designed specifically to introduce teenagers
to Basquiat's art, the site offers a variety of ways to explore this artist's
life and work. Through interactive explorations of Basquiat's paintings,
an interactive biography of his life, a digital painting tool, and online
discussion forum, teens can gain insights into Basquiat's life and worldview—while
reflecting upon their own.
eduweb’s role: Interactivity
design, content development, visual design, programming, production, and user testing.
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"We feel lucky to have chosen eduweb
to design our educational website about the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Dave Schaller, eduweb principal, was the greatest professional to work
with. He understood his medium well and was more than willing to help
us achieve our vision. The site is visually exciting. The hundreds of
submissions to the virtual gallery tell us the 'Create Your Own Artwork'
section is working. We couldn't have asked for a better partner than eduweb.
They managed this process with ease. Our only question is when can we
work together again?"
Radiah Harper
Vice-Director for Education and Program Development
Brooklyn Museum
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eduweb News - 12/10/04
eduweb receives research grant from National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to eduweb for a study
investigating the relationship between children's learning styles and
online interactives. Working with museum researcher Minda Borun, eduweb
will be exploring ways to identify children's learning styles, and then
examining how learning styles may affect how they choose, interact, and
learn from different types of computer-based interactives. We will present
the results here on our Web site and at museum conferences over the next
few years.
Project Summary
Although virtual exhibits consisting of pictures and text are still common,
educational Web developers increasingly employ techniques borrowed from
interactive exhibit developers, video game producers, and museum educators
to create compelling activities that fully exploit the strengths of the
Web medium. However, such transfers from other learning environments to
the Web pose unique challenges. For example, the effective teacher in
a face-to-face learning environment responds to various cues about the
learner’s knowledge, interest, and ability. We do not have that
ability online. Instead we must attempt to formalize within the programming
of the activity much of the tacit feedback to which the teacher can react.
This task becomes even more difficult when we take into consideration
the diverse ways that people perceive and process information.
This research, a collaboration between educational
Web developers and museum researchers, will explore the impact of learning
style on preference for online informal learning experiences. Building
on our pilot study of user preferences for Web-based activity types (Schaller
et al., 2002), we will develop ways of measuring learning style among
children and test hypotheses about learning style, activity preferences,
engagement, and satisfaction. An understanding of individual differences
in learning styles through the proposed research can provide valuable
insights into the specific requirements of computer-based learning media
and guide developers to design more engaging and effective learning experiences
for a wide variety of learners.
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New Art Adventure - 9/22/04
From Cave Art to Your Art: 30,000 years of new media
Sanford
Cave painters first put charcoal to rock thirty thousand years ago. Ever
since, artists have created new media to help them express themselves.
Explore the ways that artists use art media and make a video showing what
they’ve inspired you to create. Watch video clips showing artists
at work, then make your own art and upload it to the web site. Add text
and music, and you’re ready to watch your video. You can even download
it to your computer to share with friends and family!
Note: This site has many large video files, so a fast internet connection
is highly recommended!
eduweb’s role: Concept
and content development, visual design, scriptwriting, illustration, programming,
production, and user testing.
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"It was a real pleasure working with
eduweb. Our requirements and standards for this site are high. eduweb
helped us reach our goals. We appreciate their expertise, responsiveness
and creativity."
Lynne Bowdon
Senior Channel Marketing Manager
Sanford
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New History Web Site - 9/5/04
The Dakota Experience
South Dakota State Historical Society
Civic and social life on the Dakota frontier developed out of competing
goals and visions: Some came looking for wealth in the mines of the Black
Hills. Others sought and found chances to take part in local or territorial
government. Missionaries carried their gospel, hoping to replace tribal
ways with Christianity. Native Americans sought to maintain their traditional
life in the face of change.
Explore this history through online interactives, historical artifacts,
photographs, and documents, and interpretive text. Journey to the gold
rush town of Deadwood to discover the "real" story of the Old
West. Make a magic lantern show to share online with your friends.
"Creating Community on the Frontier" is a pilot module for
The Dakota Experience, a much larger Web site which will ultimately explore
the breadth and depth of Dakota history.
eduweb’s role: Concept
and content development, information architecture, visual design, scriptwriting,
illustration, programming, production, and user testing.
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eduweb projects win Gold and Honorable Mention at the AAM Muse Awards
Two Web sites developed by eduweb in collaboration with its clients
have won prestigious Muse Awards. The Muse Awards are a juried competition
conducted by the American Association of Museums' (AAM) Media and Technology
Committee. Since 1989, the MUSE Awards have recognized excellence in films
and videos produced by or for museums. eduweb's winning projects are:
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Gold: Soldier of Liberty, for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Soldier of Liberty is a distance learning package containing
curricula and a live interactive broadcast as well as the Web site.
The judges said, " An extremely appealing and engaging presentation
of the issues and factors leading up to the American Revolution. An
exceptionally high quality project, offering multiple avenues for two-way
communication. Great attention to detail and compelling characters,
presented with a contemporary twist, while still capturing the period.
Not just your crusty, old retelling of the subject but an evocative
and timely discussion and presentation of the people and issues."
More about Soldier
of Liberty.
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- Honorable Mention: The Renaissance Connection for the
Allentown Art Museum. The judges said, "This design clearly states
that history is not boring! The Monty-Python-esque animation is particularly
attention-getting and inviting and especially effective when the visitor
becomes a 'Patron of the Arts.' The sound effects are used well in the
introductory pages to help the visitor follow the directions and the
teacher section is quite strong. This site hits the mark for younger
teens!" Explore the site!
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eduweb site wins "Best of the Web" Award
eduweb was honored at the recent Museums & the Web 2004
conference for a Web site it developed with the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts. The site won "Best Educational Use" at the conference's
Best of the Web awards. This is the third time since 2000 in which an eduweb
project has won this award in this international juried competition. The site, " World
Myths & Legends in Art," focuses on 26 works of
arts inspired by myths and legends from around the world. Web visitors
can explore those stories with these great works of art and a variety
of in-depth interpretation and interactive features. The Web site expands
and revises on the Institute's original "World Mythology" Web
site first launched in 1995.
In selecting the site for this award, the judges commented:
"I thought the original was great and have
used it as an example of an online teaching resource for years. The new
site is richer and shows evidence of thoughtfulness to the users' needs.
My first thought was 'so this is what a web site looks like when it grows
up...'"
"A fantastic resource for classroom
teachers as well as lifelong learners of all ages and intentions. The
compare and contrast feature is extremely useful and wonderfully simple!
The THINK questions are a feature that teachers surely love. I respect
that this site clearly put the needs of teachers first in their mind when
they designed the site. It's a fabulous museum education website, an exemplar
for this category."
"An elegantly designed site with
lots of thinking and teaching going on. They've taken universal teaching
ideas (compare and contrast) and have presented them in a simple, yet
sophisticated manner. The site is non-threatening for the technophobic
teacher, who will be a master in no time."
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New History Web Site - 3/15/04
What I Did for My Summer Vacation
Montana Historical Society
eduweb collaborated with the staff of Montana’s Museum to give
Web visitors an opportunity to learn about and tell their own stories
about historical artifacts. In order to add important context to selected
artifacts in the museum’s collection, we created an activity that
casts users as visitors to real families who lived across Montana. In
choosing objects to take home as souvenirs from a summer vacation visit
to their host family, users learn about the objects and add their own
interpretation and reaction to them. Material culture lives and breathes
as these stories are shared with the wider online audience. The site is
draws content directly from the museum’s collection management database,
allowing staff to add objects to the activity on a continuing basis.
eduweb’s role: Concept
and activity development, visual design, database integration, ASP programming,
production.
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"We wanted a kid-friendly interactive
that was Montana history-based, and one that would also highlight our
great collection of artifacts, photographs, and archival materials. The
expertise we needed was found in Steven Allison-Bunnell of eduweb. Steve's
hands-on, personal approach was greatly appreciated by our team. eduweb
proved to us that knowledgeable and supportive consultants are not a thing
of the past!"
Sue Near
Director of Museum Services
Montana Historical Society
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New Art Education Web Site - 2/23/04
The Renaissance Connection
Allentown Art Museum
Finalist, Best of the Web, Museums & the Web 2004!
eduweb collaborated with Allentown museum staff on this
multi-faceted Web site that explores Renaissance visual
arts and innovations and their role in the making of the
modern world. Applying research into learning styles and
user engagement, we developed a suite of online activities
and resources for middle school students and teachers: Explore
a timeline of Renaissance art and innovation, commission
an artwork as a patron of the arts, design your own innovation,
and much more, all enhanced with quirky visuals, irreverent
humor, and engaging interactivity that reveal the ways that
Renaissance life and culture resemble our own.
eduweb's role: Concept
and content development, visual design, illustration, animation,
programming, production, and user testing.
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"How do you make Renaissance
art and culture relevant and meaningful to today's middle
school students? We turned to eduweb,
which clearly understood both the goals and the challenges
of the project. eduweb helped define the big idea, establish
objectives, develop the themes, and define a humorous personality
for the site that would bring the Renaissance into the 21st
century. We are delighted with the results and thank eduweb
for their vision, creativity, and dedication to project."
Lise M. Dubé
Director of Education
Allentown Art Museum
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New Ecology Web Site - 2/12/04
PestWorld for Kids
National Pest Management Association
What are pests? Think of them as animals out of place.
Out in nature, they're just doing their jobs. But when they
move into our homes and yards, that's when we call
them pests.
Collaborating with the National Pest Management Assocaition
and its public relations agency, FCF Schmidt, eduweb developed
a diverse array of offerings to meet many user needs and
interests: amazing facts, in-depth information, interactive
games, and curricular lesson plans that get you up close
and personal with these bizarre yet all-too-familiar critters.
You'll never look at an ant or cockroach in the same way
again.
Designed primarily for elementary school-age kids and schoolteachers,
this site has something for everyone. Who can resist sending
a PestCard featuring a talking termite?
eduweb's role:
Concept development, information architecture, scriptwriting,
visual design, illustration, animation, programming, production,
and usability testing.
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"Charged with communicating
the importance of professional pest control to the next
generation of consumers, FCF Schmidt Public Relations recommended
development of an educational children’s website to
our client the National Pest Management Association. After
an exhaustive search of potential partners, eduweb surfaced
as the most qualified site developer. Their educational
background and ability to develop site content to meet national
curriculum criteria made them the easy selection. And throughout
the project's 6-month execution, they surely didn't disappoint.
“Working in tandem with
our account team, eduweb expertly assimilated sometimes
technical input to ultimately create a fun, engaging website
that features innovative and interactive activities, interesting
learning resources, and teacher lesson plans that adhere
to national education standards. Pestworldforkids.org is
already receiving praise from within the pest control industry,
as well as throughout the education community. Additionally,
it has provided us with a legitimate hook sure to garner
national media exposure for our client. Through the partnership
between FCF Schmidt PR and eduweb, there is no doubt that
more and more children will be learning about pests and
professional pest control by visiting www.pestworldforkids.org.”
Maribeth Roman Schmidt
President
FCF Schmidt Public Relations, Inc.
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New art exhibition Web site - 1/26/04
Picturing Women
The Picturing Women Project
Picturing Women explores how women are figured,
fashioned, turned into portraits, and told about in words
and pictorial narrative. Juxtaposing art and artifacts from
the past and present, it explores these questions:
- What constitutes female identity?
- How is it culturally constructed in images, artifacts and texts?
- What roles have these artifacts played in defining women's places in society, how they have been pictured historically and are pictured today?
The Picturing Women project team came to eduweb
seeking a highly interactive Web site for the exhibition.
They wanted the site to have strong community-oriented features
offering many forms of participation. We proposed a site
design that used object juxtapositions as a core element.
The curator, project staff, and any Web visitor can create
and publish juxtapositions online, blurring the traditional
line between curator and public. Online forums within each
juxtaposition encourage conversations among viewers and
the project team. These features, along with other interactives,
e-cards, and lesson plans, provide multiple ways for people
to deepen and extend their experience with the exhibition.
eduweb's role:
Information and interactivity design, visual design, animation,
programming, and production.
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"Working with David Schaller
and his team at eduweb has been an exceptionally
rewarding professional experience through and through. Dave's
sophistication, wit, his deep grounding in the literature
and practices of interactive learning, and his ability to
grasp the essence of a project in record time are wonderfully
matched by the elegant design work of his colleagues and
their incredible capacity to make a vision a workable, engaging
reality. I would recommend eduweb without reservation (and
have done so a number of times already)."
Susan Shifrin
Project Director and Curator
Picturing Women Project
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eduweb projects praised in District Administration magazine
An article in the latest issue of District
Administration has an article about Colonial Williamsburg's
Electronic Field Trip (EFT), with high praise for the online
activities that eduweb has developed for the program. The
article calls them "innovative and sophisticated
online activities" and quotes several educators:
- "The electronic
field trips meet the modality of all the different learning
styles," says Glenna Raper, fifth-grade teacher at
Davis Elementary School in Davis, Oklahoma. "I have
a lot of students who might be more challenged with written
words, and they can always relate to the online activities.
I had one special needs child who would become engulfed
in the Web activities, and he was so successful that other
students asked him for help. You could see the lights
coming on in his eyes."
- "The activities
are really good at promoting higher-level thinking,"
says Darryl Saunders, supervisor of elementary studies
for the School District of Hillsborough County, Florida,
"from presenting the questions and predicaments that
the characters encounter to showing cause and effect."
eduweb has been developing online activities for Colonial
Williamsburg since 1998. We are currently working on Web
activities for the 2004-05 program.
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New Music Education Web site! 10/28/03
Soul Learning
The Stax Museum of American Soul Music
This Web site and CD-ROM celebrate Stax soul music of the
1960s and 70s with lively interactives and lesson plans.
In "The Stax River" interactive, you can trace
musicial influences on the signature Stax sound with some
of Stax's biggest hits. "Mix a Song in the Stax Studio"
(CD-ROM only) lets you layer instrumental tracks to arrange
your own soul song. One sample lesson plan is available
on the Web site, with a complete five-lesson unit on soul
music for middle school students on the CD. (Middle school)
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eduweb projects win Silver and Honorable Mention at the AAM MUSE
Two Web sites developed by eduweb in collaboration
with its clients have won prestigious MUSE Awards. The MUSE
Awards are a juried competition conducted by the American
Association of Museums' (AAM) Media and Technology Committee.
Since 1989, the MUSE Awards have recognized excellence in
films and videos produced by or for museums. eduweb's projects
are:
- Silver:
Jefferson's West, for the Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation. Jefferson's West is a distance learning
package containing curricula and a live interactive broadcast
as well as the Web site. The judges said, "I particularly
like the Web game with its ability to move in different
directions to explore and collect data. A good example
of how integrated technology (electronic field trip and
website) can bring specific content directly into classrooms."
As a subscription site, it is not freely accessible to
the public, but a demo of the Web adventure is available.
Try
the demo!
- Honorable Mention: The Artist's Toolkit, for the Minneapolis
Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center. The judges
said, "The Artist's Toolkit is a great introduction
to basic concepts in art for students as well as teachers.
This should be every classroom teacher's essential tool.
It's also a great way to introduce the MIA collection
to visitors. It's very nice how the producers tried to
appeal to different learning styles. The animation of
the artworks is a terrific way to introduce children to
visual ideas." Explore
the site!
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New Art & History Web site! - 5/2/03
World Myths & Legends in Art
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Myths are stories that explain why the world is the way
it is. Throughout history, artists have been inspired by
myths and legends and have given them visual form. Explore
myths and legends from around the world with these great
works of art and in-depth interpretation and interactive
features. (Middle and high school)
"Museum staff are
enchanted by the imaginative—and appropriate—ways
in which eduweb brings works of art to life. They are highly
gifted educators with a repertoire of creative strategies
that engage diverse learners."
Kate Johnson
Chair, Education Division
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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World Myths & Legends, Hydria
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New Science & Technology Web site! - 4/4/03
Bridge to Classroom
California Alliance for Jobs
Designing and building a bridge to withstand earthquakes
is no easy challenge. Explore the science, technology and
people involved in the new Oakland Bay Bridge with these
interactive learning modules and simulations! (Fifth grade
and up)
- Learn what causes earthquakes
and see what scientists are predicting for the the coming
quake.
- Take on the challenge facing
bridge designers and design a bridge that can withstand
a Maximum Seismic Event—then test your bridge to
see how it fares!
- Explore
key moments in the bridge's construction and meet some
of the people and technologies involved in the new bridge.
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Engineering for Earthquakes, Bridge to Classroom
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New Science Web site! - 2/11/03
Shedd Educational Adventures (SEA)
John G. Shedd Aquarium
Shedd Educational Adventures (SEA) contains
a treasure trove of aquatic science resources for K-12 teachers
and students. SEA brings the Philippines to life for your
students with fact sheets and multimedia interactives based
on the Wild Reef exhibit at Shedd Aquarium.
- Help Squish the Fish find lunch
(a role-play story for grades K-2)
- Build a fish and try to survive
on the reef (a simulation for grades 3-6)
- Solve a mystery in the Philippines
(a puzzle/mystery for grades 6-9)
- Research seahorse conservation
(an interactive reference for grades 9-12)
Plus K-12 lesson plans, fact sheets about
plants, animals and culture, and more! Dive into the SEA
today!
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Build-a-Fish, from Shedd Educational Adventures
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New Research Paper! - 1/16/02
Practicing What We Teach: how learning theory can guide development of online educational activities
Transplanting learning theory from the classroom or museum
environment to the Web poses unique challenges. In this
paper, we review several theories of learning and explore
ways that we have tried to incorporate them into our development
and design process for interactive Web sites.
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Discussion of Gardner's Entry Points and Shedd interactives,
from Practicing What We Teach:
Activity |
Entry Points |
How users might engage entry points |
Build-a-Fish |
Hands-on/ Experiential |
Designing a fish and seeing whether it can eat and avoid being eaten on the reef. |
Logical |
Systematically testing fish designs to see which does best in various places on the reef. |
Aesthetic |
Considering shape and color differences in design options while designing fish. |
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eduweb News - 12/18/02
New Art Education Web site!
The Artist's Toolkit: Visual elements and principles
ArtsConnectEd (The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center)
2003 AAM MUSE Award winner!
Artists use visual elements and principles like line, color and
shape as tools to build works of art. Learn about these concepts
in a variety of ways:
Explore the Toolkit
- Watch animated movies demonstrating the elements and
principles
- Find examples of the elements and principles in works
of art from the MIA and Walker
- Create your own composition using the elements and principles
Artists in Action
Watch professional artists Ta-Coumba Aiken and Judy Onofrio
create original compositions to see artists in action using
the visual elements and principles.
Encyclopedia
Learn more about the building blocks of composition with this
in-depth guide. Here you'll see many examples of works of art
that illustrate the visual elements and principles.
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eduweb News - 10/28/02
New Web Adventure!
Marine Reserves: How do you fit in?
The Channels Islands off the California coast are rich in ecological
diversity. They also play an important role
in the local economy, since they support commercial and recreational
fishing and diving industries. This digital lab lets you join
a group working to establish new marine reserves in the Channel
Islands. Creating a marine reserve that will sustain the natural
ecology of the Channel Islands without hurting the human community
is not easy. It's like solving a puzzle—but so far, no one
has figured out a solution that everyone can accept. Are you up
for the challenge?
This digital lab is part of the JASON Project's latest expedition,
JASON XIV: From Shore to Sea. JASON has made this digital lab
freely accessible for the 2002-03 school year. Subscribe to JASON
for access to so much more: the award-winning curriculum, videos
and gated online community, plus the live two-week Expedition
Broadcast. Learn more
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eduweb News - 9/30/02
New Web Adventure!
Jefferson's West
Colonial Williamsburg
Join Lewis & Clark and head west in this interactive role-playing
game combined with creative play. As you journey westward, you
can stop along the way and explore, collecting plants and animals
and trading with Indians for cultural objects. What you collect
and send back to Thomas Jefferson will shape his view (and by
extension the American view) of these new lands. (This is a demo
version of this game, which is part of Colonial Williamsburg's
Electronic
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eduweb News - 8/1/02
New Web Site!
JerseyHistory
The New Jersey Historical Society's new Web site offers a peek
at its past, present and upcoming exhibitions, a publication archive,
links to valuable outside resources, immediate access to its extensive
archives and finding aids, a destination listing for Newark arts,
culture, and entertainment, a monthly calendar of events, news
updates, as well as selected images from the museum and library
collections. Teachers and students can also sample online history
lessons, downloadable curriculum materials, an archive of Jersey
Journeys quarterly newspaper for students, and a listing of customized
educational programs for learners of all ages.
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eduweb News - 5/23/02
New Web Site!
Explore! A Child's Nature
Brookfield Zoo
It is the nature of children to explore the living world around
them. Exploring nature helps kids grow into adults who care about
nature. When you encourage the kids in your life to appreciate
their connections with the natural world, you will have healthier,
happier kids. And you will also be helping to ensure that future
generations will enjoy a healthier, happier Earth. This site is
for adults who want to Grow a Caring Kid.
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eduweb projects win Gold, Silver and Honorable Mention at the AAM MUSE Awards!
Three Web sites developed by eduweb in collaboration with its
clients have won prestigious MUSE Awards. The MUSE Awards are
a juried competition conducted by the American Association of
Museums' (AAM) Media and Technology Committee. Since 1989, the
MUSE Awards have recognized excellence in films and videos produced
by or for museums. The three winning eduweb projects are:
- Gold: Kids Design Network (KDN), for the DuPage Children's
Museum. The judges said, "Marvelously creative. I would
have loved this project as a kid!" Explore
the site!
- Silver: A Brush with Wildife: Create a Composition with Carl Rungius,
for the National Museum of Wildlife Art. The judges said, "The
images were beautifully illustrated, the text was clear, and
the activity was creative." Explore
the site!
- Honorable Mention: Hostages of Two Worlds, for the Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation. The judges said, "A very interactive
website that allows for interaction with museum staff and professionals.
I really like this!" The Web site is one part of the larger
distance learning program, which incorporates Web, video, and
print materials. As a subscription site, it is not freely accessible
to the public.
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eduweb News - 3/6/02
New Web Site!
Kid's Design Network (KDN)
DuPage Children's Museum
Have you ever wanted to invent a gadget? With KDN, you can! You
can investigate a challenge, dream up a design, and draw your
plans on the computer. Then, using the Internet, you can show
your design to a real engineer! They'll help with your design,
so you can go and build it! And best of all, it's free, from the
DuPage Children's Museum! (Third-sixth grade)
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eduweb News - 2/28/02
New eduweb Research Study!
How Do You Like To Learn? Comparing User Preferences and Visit
Length of Educational Web Sites
Developing effective public education sites for the World
Wide Web requires an understanding of both learning theory and
what appeals to learners. How can Web developers create sound
educational activities that attract and appeal to a broad audience?
Do adults prefer different types of online learning experiences
than children? Read the report!
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eduweb News - 2/8/02
eduweb Develops Ten of the Top 100 Educational Web Sites
Ten of our sites are featured in a recent list of the Top 100
educational Web sites of 2002. Homeschooling.com created the list,
calling these 100 sites "a select group of the most informative,
innovative, and educational sites on the Internet today!"
eduweb was the sole developer for six of the 100 sites, and developed
many of the learning modules and activities on four more. More. |
eduweb News - 12/17/01
New Web Site!
Surrounded by Beauty: The Arts of Native America
Explore an online exhibit of Native American artworks at the Minneapolis
Insitute of Art. (Middle school to adult))
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eduweb News - 12/06/01
New Web Adventure
A Brush with Wildlife: Create a Composition with Carl Rungius
Learn from Carl Rungius, one of America's finest wildlife artists,
how to use art principles like balance, contrast, movement, and
proportion to compose a powerful art composition. Get acquainted
with the the principles, then create your own composition and
submit it to the Critique Gallery for review! (Middle school and
up)
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eduweb News - 11/30/01
eduweb Research & Evaluation Project
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eduweb News - 11/15/01
New Web Adventure
Monetary Mania!
How much do you know about money? Test your knowledge with this
IMF quiz show about macroeconomics and global monetary policy.
(High school and up)
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eduweb News - 9/18/01
New Web Adventure
The IMF in Action
Learn the difference between a hard and soft currency, how a country
can recover from economic crisis, and how the International Monetary
Fund works with member countries. (High school and up)
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eduweb News - 9/18/01
New Web Adventure
Order in the Court
You're a justice of the peace in colonial Virginia, sitting in
judgment of three cases. Call on the plaintiff, defendant, lawyers
and witnesses, then compare your verdict with that of history!
(Fifth grade and up)
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eduweb News - 8/4/01
New Web Adventure
Carmine's Landscape Adventure
Join Carmine Chameleon and explore paintings to learn about mood,
depth, time of day and weather in landscapes. Create your own
landscapes so Carmine can get some sleep, go for a hike, and romp
in the in all kinds of weather. (Second/third grade and up)
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eduweb News - 7/13/01
eduweb Workshop at the National Association of Interpretation 2001 Conference
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eduweb News - 6/1/01
New Web Adventure
Go West, Young Artist
It's 1870, and explorers and artists are discovering the wonders
of the American West. Travel westward and meet six landscape artists
to learn the basics of landscape composition. (Fifth grade and
up)
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eduweb News - 3/17/01
eduweb Two-Time Winner of Museum "Best of Web" Award
eduweb LLP (eduweb ®) has again won "Best
of the Web: Educational Use" award at the Museums
& the Web 2001 conference. "Art
Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art," which
eduweb developed for the National Museum of Wildlife Art, won
this prestigious award in an international juried competition.
More. |
eduweb News - 11/9/00
eduweb Site Featured in USA Today
A Web game that eduweb developed for Brookfield Zoo (Chicago Zoological
Society) has been featured in USA Today. "eduweb excels at
engaging children in unique interactive learning situations,"
the article states. "Putting children in control of the journey
makes their learning hands-on and self-directed." Read
the whole article.
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