What a tremendous resource for biology or anthropology classes! Whether your belieflie in Evolutionary theory or Intelligent Design theory that is not the argumen there. I am not espousing either side ofthe argument . However, I just wanted to bring this resource to the attention of the educational community.
“This site currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts. There is also the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from secondary reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, published descriptions of Darwin’s Beagle specimens and important related works for understanding Darwin’s context.”
Link to The complete work of Charles Darwin
On the subject of Convergence… Take a look at the future of bringing historical literature into kids, mainstream, lives. The question will be immersion and adoption which has the potential to not only lead to acceptance, but the potential for embracing classical literature.
“On Thursday, the MacArthur Foundation is expected to announce a $240,000 grant to Castronova and his team to build Arden: The World of Shakespeare, a massively multiplayer online game, or MMOG, built entirely around the plays of the Bard.
“We’d like to allow our players to learn something valuable, so that’s why it’s about Shakespeare.”
–Edward Castronova
For Castronova, a longtime Shakespeare fan who once acted in a performance of Richard III and wrote a book called Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games, bringing Shakespeare’s universe to life is the chance of a lifetime. And, it’s an opportunity to use an MMOG as a serious social-science research tool.”
Oh! What WILL the future bring?!
Links to recent articles:
CNET news -Shakespeare Coming to a Virtual world
Link to Shakespeare goes digital – News at GameSpot
