Evaluating Websites II…

 The UC Atlas of Global Inequality

http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/

Coverage:

is by professors carrying Phd where they offer researches, graphs, maps, analysis and all kind of materials

Accuracy:

the blog extension is .edu and its updated in less than three months

contributers to the site are professors and scholars

Authority:

Production Team:

Dr. Ben Crow, Executive Director

Associate Professor of Sociology, UCSC

e-mail: bencrow@ucsc.edu

web page: http://sociology.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=4

Brian Fulfrost, Project Manager

GIS Coordinator & Lecturer, Dept. of Environmental Studies, UCSC

e-mail: fulfrost@ucsc.edu

web page: http://gis.ucsc.edu 

Anita Graffius, Research Assistant

Undergraduate Student (History), UCSC

Corrine Hughes, Research Assistant

Graduate Student (Economics), UCSC 

Anton Kulikov, Research Assistant

Undergraduate Student (Computer Science), UCSC

Ellen Liang, Research Assistant

Undergraduate Student (Sociology), UCSC 

Erin Middleton, Research Assistant

Undergraduate Student (Environmental Studies), UCSC

Contributers:

Kelsey Damas,  Lead Programmer

Faculty Support Specialist , UCSC

Max Feinglass, Research Assistant

Undergraduate Student (Environmental Studies), UCSC 

Jack Fong, Research Assistant

PhD. Candidate (Sociology), UCSC

Kea Gordon,  Research Assistant

PhD. Candidiate (Sociology), UCSC 

Gato Gourley,  Research Assistant

Undergraduate Student (Environmental Studies), UCSC

Patti Jazinowski, Project Manager

Patti was indispensable in building the foundation of the Atlas – from key content to project oversight and management. Patti is a graduate of the UCSC economic department. 

Elizabeth Marcello, Research Assistant

Undergraduate Student (Environmental Studies), UCSC

Christian McBride, Research Assistant

Undergraduate Student, UCSC 

Greta Mills, Research Assistant

Undergraduate Student, UCSC

Sheryl Martin Shultz,  Director of Technology

Manager of Instructional Development, UCSC

Sheryl was responsible for originally designing and constructing the Atlas web site. Sheryl also developed the instructional flash animations. 

Erik Weeks,  Research Assistant

Center for Global, Regional and International Studies Program, UCSC

Erik was responsible for producing many of the original maps in ArcView 3.x and ArcView 8.x and for developing a range of other content.

Objective:

The mission of the UC Atlas of Inequality is to provide online teaching resources and tools to enable student exploration of global change. Aspects of 21st Century global integration and inequality present great challenges to university teaching. The UC Atlas of Global Inequality attempts to address these challenges using the Internet, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and new graphical capabilities of digital media to enhance learning in Geography, Sociology, Economics, Health, Technology and Environmental Studies. The Atlas integrates data, maps, and graphs to create an interactive website for accessing and analyzing information addressing global change and inequality.

The UC Atlas of Global Inequality promotes knowledge sharing between disciplines by utilizing a technological platform that combines GIS and database technology with Internet multi-media components. This project enables the exploration of global inequality and change by:

1) Making learning objects available for instructors, using the Internet, GIS and database technologies to improve teaching and student understanding.

2) Promoting analysis through technology that enables students to understand and quantify global changes and to encourage understanding of the geo-spatial patterns of global inequality.

3) Provoking critical thinking through cross-discipline learning and research on global inequality.

Instructors are able to present and explore spatially located, quantitative data, using web-enabled GIS and database technologies coupled with a variety of multi-media enhancements. Subsequently, students are able to explore the Atlas individually or in groups to analyze and compare qualitative and quantitative data.

How to be found?

i used yahoo search engine and i tuned my search to bring me sources of extension .edu and .gov only in addition to websites updated withing three months and no more than that

why specific this site?

it offeres in depth analysis and research and different kind of materials like graphs maps databasess extrenal linksand reserach analysis

its updated fequently and professors who has Phd and scholars contribute to it

its offeres indepth coverage, accuracy and objectivity