2005 notes from within

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Sunday, January 09, 2005

More EMMA Sites

So, follow-up number one to my posting of Friday, January 7th. Here are a few more sites I found in my old EMMA judging list, at which it may be worth taking a peek...:

http://www.tinyplanets.com/
The web site for the British educational television series. Free games, educational activities, streaming videos of episodes, media downloads, e-books, and much much more.

http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/house/
For 200 years, a two-and-a-half story house stood at 16 Elm Street in the center of Ipswich, Massachusetts, 30 miles north of Boston.
The house was built in the 1760s. During the construction, a section of an older house built around 1710 was joined to the rear of the house to create more space. A two-story addition and one-story sheds were added in the 1800s.

When the house was built, it was a fashionable home for a fairly well-to-do family. A little more than century later, a busy industrial district had grown up around the house, and it was divided into apartments, mainly for workers at the town's hosiery mill. Several families moved in and out in the first half of the 20th century.

By the end of 1961, the house stood empty.

This site is the online companion piece to the Smithsonian research project,
telling the stories of five families who lived in this house over 200 years and made history in their kitchens and parlors, through everyday choices and personal acts of courage and sacrifice.

http://www.mobilekids.net
The WHO (World Health Organization) released a study in 2004, showing that
traffic accidents are the leading cause of death for children in Europe. The threat is worldwide.
DaimlerChrysler sponsored this site, without any branding.
MobileKids.net was developed with experts in child safety, child psychology, and other specialties, to sharpen children's awareness of the issue. "Because traffic situations can vary worldwide, MobileKids does not list traffic rules and regulations but rather makes children aware that they need to stay aware in all traffic situations. MobileKids takes internationally relevant traffic safety topics and brings them across through information, motivation, and training. Children should learn to react safely in all sorts of traffic situations".

The virtual city "Mokitown" and the Internet site of the acclaimed 3D animated TV series, "The Nimbols" can be reached directly from this portal.

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