Neat Sites to Explore!

Encyclopedia of Life   www.eol.org

 “The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites—one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species. Each site is constantly evolving and features dynamically synthesized content ranging from historical literature and biological descriptions to stunning images, videos and distribution maps. Join us as we explore the richness of Earth’s biodiversity!”  Put together by the scientists at The Smithsonian.

Animal Diversity   http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html

 

 

“Thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. ADW is a large searchable encyclopedia of the natural history of animals.

Every day, thousands of classroom students and informal visitors use it to answer animal questions.” University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

 

 

The Big Picture   www.boston.com/bigpicture/

at The Boston Globe Newspaper site

 

“The Big Picture is a photo blog for the Boston Globe/boston.com, compiled semi-regularly by Alan Taylor. Inspired by publications like Life Magazine (of old), National Geographic, and online experiences like MSNBC.com's Picture Stories galleries and Brian Storm's MediaStorm, The Big Picture is intended to highlight high-quality, amazing imagery - with a focus on current events, lesser-known stories and, well, just about anything that comes across the wire that looks really interesting”.

 

 

Arounder   www.arounder.com

 

“This online travel magazine offers a huge collection of 360-degree virtual reality tour of panoramas of world-class architecture. The nucleus of the AROUNDER concept is the fullscreen photographic panoramas, which enable the  user to pan left, right, up and down - a far superior format than the standard  photograph as it gives the viewer a real sense of actually 'being there'.”

 

Poisson Rouge - Red Fish Soup   www.poissonrouge.com

 

 “Free online games and activities for preschool children. Click on the different items in the picture for loads of fun” There are no instructions on the site and there are some good reasons for that: most people, even adults, do not read instructions, children who cannot read will ignore written text anyhow, but most importantly for us, there is no need and in fact, instructions get in the way of the experience.” Available in French.