Category: pedagogy
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British Library launches new book app
For those of you with an iPad, check out the British Library‘s new 19th Century Historical Collection app with access to classic novels, works of philosophy, history and science in the library’s collection. Currently the free app features over a thousand titles, but by summer it will have more than 60,000 works, all in the…
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Ara Pacis Augustae in pictures and words
Charles S. Rhyne, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Reed College, has created a new website dedicated to the visual and historiographical study of the ancient Roman monument Ara Pacis Augustae. In his preface, Professor Rhyne explains that the site’s objective is “to make available a more comprehensive body of images of the Ara Pacis…
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Creating interactive images with Speaking Image
The online application Speaking_Image lets you create, edit and share interactive annotative images. After uploading images (those without copyright infringement), you can isolate and annotate areas of the image for your viewers. Students can also edit these images so they can create interactive and collective study guides as a group (edits are listed so everyone…