Awesome Stories!
This Internet site is a new interactive, electronic learning tool. We produce stories behind some of the world's most interesting people, places and events. Asking the questions we think our visitors might ask, we find the answers. But we do much more.
Cutting through the maze of irrelevant and inappropriate web sites, we bring speed and convenience to the learning process. By assembling URLs to some of the most important, relevant, on-line material in one place, and organizing those links around an interesting story, we uncover for everyone what was once available only for scholars.
By linking to national archives, libraries, museums and other institutional sites, we deliver the source material at the precise moment it's needed. We also help the learner to get involved with the story. Let's take an example:
The Titanic
Where in the North Atlantic did it strike the iceberg?
Speaking of icebergs, what did THAT iceberg look like?
What about Titanic's passengers, like John Jacob Astor?
What did he really look like?
He was the richest man on board; how did he die?
Was his body found? Where?
What about the ship?
Who built it? Owned it? Traveled on it?
How much was passage? Have any tickets survived?
Why did she sink?
People blamed a huge starboard gash; is that true?
Dr. Ballard discovered the truth; do you know it?
About those lifeboats:
What did they look like?
Did they comply with regulations?
Why were there so few on board?
Did rescuers have to travel through ice?
If so, why didn't they strike icebergs?
Where did the ice come from?
What did the rescue ships look like?
At AwesomeStories.com, people interactively learn by "traveling" to source sites at the precise moment they need the information. Because they "see" the "real thing" (people, places and events), learners experience history, art and science in a way not possible before the Internet. They also have fun while they're at it.
Because we "connect" the main story with other events, other people, life at the time, and tidbits of fascinating history, our productions are a composite of different story lines combined in one understandable, thematically relevant, cohesive story.
http://www.awesomestories.com/
Cutting through the maze of irrelevant and inappropriate web sites, we bring speed and convenience to the learning process. By assembling URLs to some of the most important, relevant, on-line material in one place, and organizing those links around an interesting story, we uncover for everyone what was once available only for scholars.
By linking to national archives, libraries, museums and other institutional sites, we deliver the source material at the precise moment it's needed. We also help the learner to get involved with the story. Let's take an example:
The Titanic
Where in the North Atlantic did it strike the iceberg?
Speaking of icebergs, what did THAT iceberg look like?
What about Titanic's passengers, like John Jacob Astor?
What did he really look like?
He was the richest man on board; how did he die?
Was his body found? Where?
What about the ship?
Who built it? Owned it? Traveled on it?
How much was passage? Have any tickets survived?
Why did she sink?
People blamed a huge starboard gash; is that true?
Dr. Ballard discovered the truth; do you know it?
About those lifeboats:
What did they look like?
Did they comply with regulations?
Why were there so few on board?
Did rescuers have to travel through ice?
If so, why didn't they strike icebergs?
Where did the ice come from?
What did the rescue ships look like?
At AwesomeStories.com, people interactively learn by "traveling" to source sites at the precise moment they need the information. Because they "see" the "real thing" (people, places and events), learners experience history, art and science in a way not possible before the Internet. They also have fun while they're at it.
Because we "connect" the main story with other events, other people, life at the time, and tidbits of fascinating history, our productions are a composite of different story lines combined in one understandable, thematically relevant, cohesive story.
http://www.awesomestories.com/
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