Teaching and Learning with Technology

A Tour of Arts and Humanities Teaching Sites

Dynamic Pages

Many sites use a database to store information which can be used to display custom or dynamic pages or be accessed by users via a search form.

Examples

Social Explorer Interactive Maps - Compares ethnic composition in New York and Los Angeles across decades. Based on U.S. Census Data.

Wunderground Multilingual Weather Maps - Choose a language from the drop-down menu to see weather maps and forecasts in that language. Languages include Latin (latin.wunderground.com), French (french.wunderground.com), Arabic (arabic.wunderground.com), Korean (korean.wunderground.com) and many more languages.

Inflation Calculator - Use this tool to translate 2002 dollar values into 1800 dollar values.

Today in (U.S.) History - Displays information on what happened in U.S. history on a particular day. Search for other dates through the Today in U.S. History archive. From the Library of Congress.

Today in Literature - Displays key topics associated by a date, and includes an e-mail subscription option to "push" updated information to users.

The Quilt Index - Online database which lets you search for quilt images based on date, location, technique or quilt purpose.

CongressLink Zip Code Search - Enter a zip code to find out who your local U.S. Representative is. Part of www.congresslink.org

Calorie King Fast Food Data - This site lets you navigate to different food groups then displays nutritional information for each item.

Merlot Online Resources - Merlot uses a database backend to present lists of pages based on search results.

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