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Web showcase

Examples of best practices from around the country's campuses—and beyond—to give you a taste of what is possible.

AIR for Austin Music
A team of five CIT staff members (Malaika Boyd, Dana Deloca, T.J. Fullington, Elias Ponvert, and Suzanne Rhodes) participated in the AIR for Austin Music rally sponsored by Knowbility. The event was produced in conjunction with the SXSW Interactive Festival and utilized an emphasis of developing music-oriented Web sites to introduce and address issues surrounding the accessibility of multimedia on the Internet. The CIT team received special recognition for their text descriptions of songs. Check out the accessible rich media Catavento band site the CIT developed at: http://www.susannasharpe.com/

New Media Consortium
CIT is a member of the New Media Consortium, an international nonprofit organization of higher education institutions and digital technology companies empowering educators to change the way people learn. Members of the NMC offer some of the finest examples of the craft, for example, Dartmouth, the Rochester Institute of Technology, UCLA, and Yale Medical School.

Annenberg/CPB Project's Top Ten Distance Education Sites
Top sites meeting Annenberg's goal of making quality higher education accessible to more people.

The Geographer's Craft
A Web site that started at UT Austin, and moved to the University of Colorado at Boulder with its creator, former UT Department of Geography professor Kenneth Foote Winner of several awards, the Web-based hypertext course materials strive to improve the teaching of geographical research techniques in upper-division curriculum.

American Memory
An outstanding online digital library with historical photographs. Contains American history materials from the National Digital Library in the Library of Congress.

The Galileo Project
Exemplar of Web site that explores the context of a particular time and place in history. The Galileo Project is a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time.

Groundwater Biology
An inviting entry point to articles, journals, books, museums, organizations, and other Web sites about biospeleology—the study of invertebrates that spend their lives in subsurface waters.

The Perseus Digital Library
Exemplar of a collaborative online digital library dealing with the ancient world. Contains ancient texts, maps, art catalogs, essays, and pictures of art objects provided by over seventy museums.

Map of the Market
Information-rich example of the multi-dimensional possibilities of information display and organization on the Web.

Visual Thesaurus
Quoting their Web page, "The Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus is an exploration of sense relationships within the English language. By clicking on words, you follow a thread of meaning, creating a spatial map of linguistic associations. The Visual Thesaurus was built using Thinkmap, a data-animation technology developed by Plumb Design.