Image driven scholarship is a lofty goal, however, MIT's Visualizing Cultures has created a wonderful visual learning space. I spent quite some time tonight going through the site and throughly enjoyed it. As they state, " Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto largely inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be). I love the idea and the site, however, the top drop-down menu at the top of the page started to bother me over time. Since this is the main navigation for the site it might be nice if it was a breadcrumb rather than a poppy drop-down. I still like the site very much.
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