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CONTENT:
This ThinkQuest site is a great resource on the history of communication from simple cave drawings to the most sophisticated computer.
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AESTHETICS:
This colorful site has a nice user-friendly format. Illustrations, photographs, audio files, and diagrams enhance the site. Visitors need QuickTime and RealPlayer to view the video and hear the audio.
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ORGANIZATION:
The left-side menu expands to display the submenus, making navigation of the site a simple matter. There is also an onsite search tool.
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REVIEW:
Reaching Out: The Evolution of Communication is a good resource for students who are researching the history of non-verbal and verbal communication. Written by kids for kids, this site offers a timeline on the development of communication as well as information on each, from hieroglyphics to the telegraph, television, and satellite-based systems. The site also explores the roles that these developments have played in changing the way people live. There is a wide variety of information on such topics as the brain and communication, alphabets, computer languages, mass media, and inventors and inventions. Included are a video gallery, audio files of different languages, and an interview with a mass media expert. If anything is missing from this site, it would be links to more resources for further study.
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Reviewed by Hazel Jobe
Education World®
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1/8/2002
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