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Turning Pages into Classroom Gold: Ancient Texts Shine on the Web
Complete story in Edutopia:
http://www.edutopia .org/british- library-ancient- texts-online
Visit Turning the Pages at:
http://www.bl. uk/onlinegallery /ttp/ttpbooks. html
One irony of the increasingly widespread digitization of nearly
everything is that many iconic treasures in the print collections of
major museums, universities, national libraries, and numerous smaller
institutions are now available online in high-quality reproductions
that anyone can closely examine and virtually handle. New tech is
celebrating the old tech it replaces, making the antiquities more
accessible than ever to a worldwide audience. In addition to
inspiring awe, these digital surrogates of some of the world's great
art objects are outstanding learning tools -- for grades K through,
well, PhD.
One of the best examples of this promising trend is the British
Library's Turning the Pages Web site, launched in 2004. Whether
you're teaching art, literature, music, science, history, geography,
or some combination of these subjects, the library's interactive
online exhibit of antiquarian books -- some merely old and others
certifiably ancient -- enables you and your students to explore
authentic masterpieces as a group or individually, in the classroom
and at home, as if you were actually holding them in your hands.
Each book or manuscript on the Turning the Pages site is accompanied
by a short scholarly essay that explains the work's significance and
elaborates on its history. There is a virtual magnifier, which
resembles one made of conventional glass, that you can slide over the
pages to get a closer look at details, and, in some cases, an audio
component is also included. For example, Lewis Carroll's original
Alice's Adventures Under Ground, which he wrote and illustrated as a
gift for his young muse, Alice Liddell, is read aloud in its
entirety. And Mozart's Musical Diary features audio clips of the
notations (written in the composer's own hand) you can play as you're
viewing the page
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