ArtSTOR is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for your own curriculums. Artstor can apply to curriculums as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, [...]
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The Lovely ArtSTOR Database
Posted in Databases, tagged database, images on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Visual Thesaurus
Posted in Databases, For Students, For Teachers, tagged Visual Thesaurus on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Scholars:
Now that school’s in full swing, don’t forget we subscribe to the Visual Thesaurus: www.visualthesaurus.com
If you haven’t seen Visual Thesaurus it’s amazing and hard to describe. You must not miss it. It is visual! Click on this example see words similar to the word commitment. (Be patient. It takes a little time to move from [...]
NewspaperArchive.com
Posted in Databases, tagged Access Newspapers.com, New Resources, Newspaper Archive on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Seattle Academy Library has arranged free access to this newspaper archive containing 71.6 million pages of newspapers representing 2,696 titles spanning a historical range of 239 years. Archive coverage is through 1977*. This free version does not include Washington State newspapers and is available at school. For home use you must obtain a free individual [...]
CultureGrams Database adds 2 features
Posted in Databases, Video Introductions, tagged CultureGrams on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
CultureGrams 26 min video introduction
CultureGrams recently added two new features to the CultureGrams World Edition: a Distance Calculator and a World Time Chart. Want to know the distance between Yerevan, Armenia, and Buenos Aires, Argentina? Our Distance Calculator gives you, in miles and kilometers (and graphically, on a map), the distance between any two capitals [...]
For Teachers – ARTStor Instructor Privileges
Posted in Databases, For Teachers, tagged ARTStor on September 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In order to be enabled for instructor privileges in ARTStor you will need a special authorization code and password. Please email me – kjohnson@seattleacademy.org and I will send it to you. With instructor privileges you will be able to create course-friendly products like shared folders, student tests, and presentations. You will need to register with ARTStor [...]
