This is a handout I distributed at my presentation on "Multimedia
Technology: Born for the Humanities" at the
Community College Humanities
Association national meeting recently. I hope that some faculty may
find it a useful way to begin exploring the manifold riches of the
Internet.
--Arnold Bradford
Theory
http://www.cod.edu/Academic/facdev/tch_lrn.HTM
College of DuPage Teaching/Learning Links. A good source
for information on instructional technology.
http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/dmason/common/euit.html
Hyperlink version of AAHESGIT posting on educational uses of
technology. Some excellent links.
http://www.learner.org/content/ed/strat/
Educational Strategies and Technologies from the Annenberg/CPB
Project. This Web site reflects the activities of innovators in
learning technology.
http://www.learner.org/
Learner On-Line (main page of Annenberg/CPB). See above.
Humanities
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Perseus Project home page—awesome resources on ancient Greece.
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/rossetti.html
The Rossetti Archive—explore the works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti—
19th century poet and painter.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html
The Victorian Web—searchable database on all things Victorian.
We are most impressed.
http://www.clark.net/pub/cosmic/cba1.html
Cosmic Baseball Association. The concept driving this mind-bending
site is just too difficult to explain. Experience it.
As a scholar, a baseball fan, and a student of world culture
you will be endlessly fascinated.
Art
http://www.learner.org/content/spotlight/awwspot/awwintro.html
Art of the Western World. A very useful and visually attractive
site whose organization echoes Michael Wood’s TV series. Links to
museums with appropriate exhibits for each period.
http://www.culture.fr/culture/gvpda-en.htm
Pont d’Arc cave site run by French Cultural Ministry.
http://seurat.art.udel.edu/ArtHist/ARTHISTORY153/HP.HTML
An art history course site by Professor Lawrence Nees, U. Delaware.
Source of some good images for the visual arts.
http://art.cwi.nl/stedelijk/eng/index.html
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. This government-funded
museum has excellent collections of images, especially for
modern eras.
http://www.echonyc.com/~whitney/
Whitney Museum, an American museum of modern art. Has some
important holdings, and the building itself is a modern,
controversial work.
http://www.nmwa.org/
National Museum for Women in the Arts. This is a very stimulating
and well-organized site. The museum itself is bold and adventuresome
in spirit.
Literature and Composition
http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html
Shakespeare Illustrated site run by Professor Harry Rusche of
Emory University. Concentrates on 19th c. images, criticism and
productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Lots of excellent graphics.
An extensive and well-organized site.
http://www2.uncwil.edu/english/newlin/o'neill/biblio-2.htm
Bibliography for a course in "Eugene O’Neill and Experimental
Drama" offered at UNC Wilmington. Typifies the tremendous range
of higher education informational resources that are immediately
accessible on the Web.
http://www.iat.unc.edu/guides/irg-30.html
English Literature and Composition Resources on the Web. This
is a link list—and a good one—bringing together a core of excellent
sites. Offered by UNC’s Institute for Academic Technology.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/writers/
The famous Purdue Writing Center site. This has downloadable
handouts and lots of useful links.
http://www.missouri.edu/~rhetnet/
RhetNet calls itself a "cyberjournal for rhetoric and writing." It
invites teachers to read, think, discuss with their colleagues across
cyberspace. A provocative, compelling nexus for involvement with the
practive of our craft.
Music
http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker/mahler.html
Gustav Mahler site—everything you ever wanted to know—and more—about
the man, his life, his music, and its recordings and the performers
who made them. A very intelligent example of the connoisseur’s Web
site, created by one who knows and understands his topic. Very
useful for the humanities instructor.
http://pages.nyu.edu./~whitwrth/
This Early Women Master site addresses not only composers but
philosophers. It has good links to other topics of related interest,
such as Hildegard of Bingen.
http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/mao2/bachinfo.html
A J.S.Bach Midi-page. It features extensive sound as well as text
files, illustrating how well the Web works to promulgate the
performing arts.