Language Revitalization on the Web
Page Name: Selected
Resources on Native American Language Renewal, by Jon Reyhner
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/SIL_Appendix.html
Description: This
page, written by Jon Reyhner, provides a substantial list of resources
for Language Revitalization efforts, with links to pages where available.
Page Name: Teaching Indigenous
Languages
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html
Description; This is another comprehensive resources page provided by Dr. Reyhner, "an outgrowth of a series of annual conferences started in 1994 at Northern Arizona University focusing on the linguistic, educational, social, and political issues related to the survival of the endangered indigenous languages of the world."
Fonts on the Web
Page Name: The
Linotype Library
http://www.fontexplorer.com/FontStore/1561549258/UserTemplate/46
Description: Excellent web site that includes designer history and font playground quizzes as well as font displays and font collections. Click here for the top-level access, which includes not only company information, but interesting profiles of historically key people in the long progress of font creating and development.Click here to read about Stanley Morison, the designer of Times, and Times New Roman.
Page Name: The
Monotype Chronicles
http://www.agfamonotype.com/about/timeline.asp?show=mono
Description: The history of font production is long and interesting, and in some ways is dominated by only a few companies. The Monotype Corporation was founded in 1896, 10 years after the mechanization of printing began. In this set of pages, Lawrence W. Wallis presents a complete and highly-readable history of The Monotype Corporation, from the birth of its founder Tolbert Lanston in Ohio in 1844 and the birth of Ottmar Mergenthaler, founder of the Linotype, in Germany in 1845, through to the present day. The history includes the stories of the fonts and their designers, as well as notes on the changes in administration, and movements and developments within the company itself. Today, the Monotype Corporation is known as Agfa-Monotype. This series is easily accessible by date range, and is a delight for the serious student and the casual reader:
Page Name: Dynamic
Fonts Tutorial and Information Page: Getting Started
http://www.truedoc.com/webpages/getstart/get_start.htm
Description: The industry has developed the concept of "dynamic fonts" for use on the web. These are fonts that are available dynamically from some back-up location, thus providing the necessary information for the font to display, and removing the requirement that the font be installed on the viewing platform. This page is an interesting tutorial, and provides some free fonts, both for demonstration purposes and to get people into the habit of using them, Most Indian languages can't use these fonts, but some, like Hopi, can. The page is also a wealth of information for where we would like to go with font portability, an issue for us of necessity rather than aesthetics, for without appropriately rich fonts, the information is lost, and we can't afford this.
Page Name: Font
Tools
http://www.truetype.demon.co.uk/othertls.htm
Description: This page provides an overview of the different font tools, types of fonts, and font issues. There are links to the various font development programs that have been used over the past decades, links to different viewpoints. Unfortunately the links to these pages are broken. Use these links instead. Bigelow and Burton: Digital Type Design Tools (http://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_34.htm); Fabian: Digital tools for type design (http://e-library.ehu.by/lobko/Design/HFHomepage/digital.htm).
Font Encoding
Page Name: Unicode
Consortium
http://www.unicode.org
Description: The Unicode Organization concerns itself with the various
issues of text representation in the world's languages. This page provides
information on the history, progress and current status of the Unicode
standard. It also contains a profile of the Unicode Consortium, who are
members, how to become members, and how to contact people. There is even
a link for proposing characters.
Graphic Tools
Page Name: Bakhter.com
http://www.bakhter.com/html/3d/3d_animation.html
Description: This
page is for people who would like to try their hand at 3-D modelling.
This is a comprehensive page of 3-D modelling tools, some free, some shareware,
some moderately to extremely expensive. But this is also a place to learn,
and to download some software that might work well in the revitalization
efforts for your Tribe. We have noticed in our own work that young people
are very interested in 3-D software and graphics development and modelling.
It would be a good way to get a strong team involved, which would help
the Tribe, and provide valuable experience for the Tribe's interested
youth.
Page Name: Macromedia
Flash
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/
Description: Our primary presentation methodology is Flash, for it allows us to present all the components simultaneously. The learner does not have to wait for special files to download, or for special "players" to activate. We believe that all these waiting periods distract learners, and interfere with the learning process. The top-level company link, where they frequently have a splashy, flashy Site of the Day, is http://www.macromedia.com/; the Flash forum, where people ask questions, discuss implementation methods, and get answers is here: http://webforums.macromedia.com/flash/. Finally, if you want to see the product information, go to http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/
Ethics & Participating in Research
Page Name: Ethical,
Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program
http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/About_NHGRI/Der/Elsi/
Description: The ELSI
arm of the National Institutes of Heath (NIH) is very concerned about
issues such as informed consent, which is the requirement that all people
who participate in experiments conducted by research be fully informed
of their rights. This requirement is difficult to meet both when those
being studied do not know English, and, when the self-interest of the
researcher is such that truly informed consent is not in his or her best
interests. These are important issues for Indigenous populations because
medical research can greatly help people beset with diabetes, alcoholism,
and domestic violence. It is also important for the study of ethnobotany,
a field that looks at how different plants can be used to benefit humankind.
It is important for Native populations to know that they have a right
to participate in the profits of any commerical applications developed
from research into plants into which they participated in any way. This
site talks about all these issues, provides contact information, grant
information, and research goals.
Page Name: 45
CFR 46, Protection of Human Subjects
http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/humansubjects/guidance/45cfr46.htm
Description; This section of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) provides for the protection of people who participate as test subjects or as information providers in research. It is long, it is sometimes complicated, and it tells one everything they need to know about their rights when they decide to participate in scientific investigation. It is prepared by the Office for Protection from Research Risks.
Page Name: Obtaining
and Documenting Informed Consent from Subjects Who Do Not Speak English
http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/humansubjects/guidance/ic-non-e.htm
Description: This page is an internal memo for the professional staff of the Ofice for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR). The Office was elevated to become the Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) in the year 2000. This memo will be very helpful for Tribal members who may assist Elders in research efforts.
Page Name: Computer-based
Training Program for Researchers
http://ohsr.od.nih.gov/cbt/nonNIHpeople.html
Description: If you are preparing a new application for your institutional review board, or are a new researcher who will be working with people, or, you don't know what an institutional review board is and why it is important to Native Americans, you might want to take this free training course provided by the National Institutes of Health. If you are applying for an NIH or NSF grant, completion of this course is required.
PageName: Copyright
questions
http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf
Description: This friendly, fun little page is designed to provide copyright information for children, but it is great for adults too. This is a Flash movie, with children asking questions about fair use, copyright, how much copyrighted material can be used and when. It is specifically designed to help people who are using The Learning Page resources at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/index.html
