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Volume 3 Number 11
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This section is devoted to resources that enrich, entertain, and inform along the electronic super highway. We are always looking for fun, interesting, or informative sites to visit. Share your favorites, newsletter@proscenia.net. • The World Through My Eyes - Photographs by young Mozambicans. A photography project for young Mozambicans helps children learn about and experiment with photography, improving their chances of receiving scholarships at a university either in Mozambique or abroad. The children participating in this project are all underprivileged and a number of them are orphans. Young orphans in Mozambique find themselves in bleak situations. With few basic rights, they are often forced to abandon their studies and live on the streets. Many turn to child prostitution to survive and have little to look forward to. This project aims to provide these children with an opportunity they likely would not have otherwise, to own a camera and begin to learn how to become a professional photographer. • Destination Modern Art - MOMA [Flash 6] Grab your kids and join a couple of space aliens on a mission to explore modern art from MOMA's permanent collection (and at its satellite PS1), a former public school building. (Notably, the five works and associated activities at MOMA amused a seven-year-old for at least 25 minutes!) These activities include Listen (especially good on Van Gogh's Starry Night), Tools (make your own collage along with Romare Beardon's The Dove), and Look, explanations of the images in a Frida Kahlo self-portrait. The PS1 portion of the site is an interactive tour of selected artworks including Jennifer Cho's Haystacks, William Kentridge's paper cutouts, and a video installation by Pipilotti Rist, Selbstlos im Lavabad. [DS] Source: Scout Report • Nobel e-Museum: Conflict Map [Macromedia Shockwave] Visualizing the nature of various conflicts across the world over the course of history is quite a challenge, and the Nobel e-Museum offers this rather compelling way to think about the past century or so of such engagements. Utilizing the Shockwave application, this interactive map provides answers to such question as Where did these wars take place?, Have some regions experienced more wars than others?, and Who were the main protagonists in these conflicts? A tall order to be sure, but the map succeeds nobly, and accomplishes its educational task by organizing each conflict into one of three categories (represented on the map by a small conflagration), and offering a brief explanation about each conflict as well. Additionally, the map also provides statistical information on the geographical distribution of Peace Prize laureates and nominees from the period 1901 to 2001, along with providing aggregate numbers of the total nominations, divided into seven geographical regions. [KMG] Source: Scout Report
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