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Expertorials
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Competition has a potential role in corporate Web
sites, and I am hopeful that a small trend now underway will take off
and become standard practice. Large business Web sites have huge budgets.
Education and the corporation benefit when a small amount of the cost
of the site is devoted to knowledge pages. It is a very simple idea: the
corporation explains what it makes or does. There are already many examples
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Above quoted from: The Wireless Age: Its
Meaning for Learning and Schools, Judy Breck, 2001, p. 99.
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CORPORATIONS
| Daimler-Chrysler | See the Heritage section for links to the Mercedes and Chrysler museums. |
| Allstate | The Survive Alive pages from this insurance company are a superb place to teach and learn about fire safety. |
| General Motors | Automotive safety is covered in several informative sections. |
| Henry Ford Museum | Connected with the Ford Motor Company web presence, this web biography is authoritative and contains historical images of the company and its founder. |
| Gillette | The company’s historical timeline is a cool tool for teaching history. It would be terrific if Gillette would make it available as a template for a student to use in making reports on other historical subjects. |
| Union Pacific | The colorful and technical language of railroaders provides interesting vocabulary and history. |
| New York Mercantile Exchange | Commodity trading is explained here by the experts. |
| Pfizer | This virtual brain tour is a digital version of a tour that the company takes as an exhibit to different places and venues. It will be at the Smithsonian in Washington from July 14, 2001 - January 2, 2002. |
ASSOCIATIONS
| Copper Development Association | This is an interesting knowledge-packed web section that is aimed at professionals, product users, students, and others in academics (see their survey at the bottom of the first page). |
| Soap and Detergent Association | This expertorial is provided by folks who really do know a lot about the Art and Science of Bubbles. |
| Cable and Wireless | This is the work of some sort of consortium for the cable and wireless industry: |
| AFL-CIO | The unions have used their photographic archives and expertise on labor history to create this informative, and somewhat promotional, web exhibit. |
NONPROFITS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
| New York City Subways | This largely repositioned material from print could be transformed by digital tools into exciting historical and technical tutorials. |
| The American Heart Association | This extensive web exhibit on nutrition could move to a new level with some animation and interactivity to stress its major lessons. |
| Launched in August 2001 by the Leakey Foundation these interactive webpages have the goal, states the foundation of serving as a resource for researchers, educators, students, and ndividuals interested in paleoanthropological research and theories. This website was created and is curated by world renowed experts in the fields it showcases. |
ACADEMIA
| University of Washington | The scientists who author this comprehensive volcano website have the information and expertise that could employ edgy digital tools to create superb teaching animations about seismology. |
| University of Arizona | Pally the Pollen is, apparently, the work of a professor or two who had the interest and imagination to put something online for young children from their scientific expertise. |
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