Organization:
mensch media
To:
sjfeld@erols.com
CC:
llindbloom@ovationtv.com, vjwells@ovationtv.com
Steve:
I'd actually seen your Mona Lisa site when
I was browsing through
resources linked to the Getty.
Keep up the good work! We've now got you
linked from our Leonardo
resources page.
Let us know if you've got kids who would
like to see our movie on Bill
Gates, Leonardo and the Codex Leicester,
and we'll try to get you a
copy.
Steve Mencher
7203 14th Avenue
Takoma Park, MD 20912
301-431-2640
FAX 301-434-3613
Mensch Media, Inc.
mensch@menschmedia.com
http://menschmedia.com
Subject:
Mona Lisa site wins award!
Date:
Wed, 6 May 1998 14:04:44 -0700
From:
To:
"Steve Feld"
Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?
/13681
Congratulations,
Your site has been chosen by Computer Currents Interactive (CCI) as one
of the Links of the Week for the week starting May 11, 1998.
The Links of the Week URL is
http://www.currents.net/resources/link/linkweek.html
Computer Currents Interactive is the online version of the
award-winning computer magazine Computer Currents, plus more.
CCI has also won Pointcom's Top 5% Web Sites award, we're rated
Four-Stars and a Green Light by Magellan, received iGUIDE's highest
rating and other awards.
CCI was chosen to participate in the Software Publishers Assn's
"CyberSurfari" and the popular "Riddler" Internet games.
Your site has been chosen based on its originality, content and
quality. You can display the Links of the Week Award icon on your site.
The icon is on the following page: http://www.currents.net/linkicon.html
The icon comes in two flavors, use whichever suits your needs. You can
capture the icon with most Web browsers, instructions are on the linkicon
page.
After your site is on Links of the Week it will be moved and have a
permanent home on CCI's Web Reviews page at
www.currents.net/magazine/reviews/webrevws.html, which is updated bi-weekly.
Attached to this email are the awards and the HTML code.
If you have any questions or comments, please email or call me. Thank
you for contributing worthwhile content to the Internet.
Sincerely,
Mike McDonnell
Online Manager
mmcdonn@compcurr.com
800/365-7773 ext 269
510/527-0333 ext 269
http://www.currents.net
M. I. Foard
mm@oro.net
Links of the Week Editor for Computer Currents
Date:
Sun, 21 Jun 1998 09:39:43 -0500
From:
"Kevin"
To:
"Steve Feld"
Hello,
Your site has been awarded the Falconkeeper's Pick of the
Month award
. You
can display this award anywhere you like (except on the dart
board) and if
you like, link it to my page at
http://www.txdirect.net/users/miller91.
Thanks
Kevin
From:
Annette Keenberg
To:
"'sjfeld@erols.com'"
Mr. Feld;
According to our records, "Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling"
website has
been a listing within our GRADES database since 5/22/98. To
view your
listing, please go to http://www.classroom.com/grades/ and
enter "Mona Lisa".
Annette M. Keenberg
Corporate Webmaster
Classroom Connect, Inc.
http://www.classroom.com/
Thank you for visiting ESL Cafe's Web Guide. We've added the following link into our directory:
Title: Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?
URL: /13681
Category: Student_Projects
Description: Created by high school students in
collaboration with a high school in Sweden, this site features the work of two distinguished women, Dr. Lillian
Schwartz and Rina de Firenze, author of Mystery of the Mona Lisa.
http://www.eslcafe.com/search
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
All the best,
Dave Sperling, ESL Cafe's Link Manager
Eye Candy Web Site Reviews 
From:Peter Milbury
To:
Steve Feld
Thank you for letting me know about their work, which is
excellent! I
have linked it to our school page:
http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/draw.html
It is part of our Art, Film, and Fine Art section of the
Chico High Helpful
Bookmarks: http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/
Peter Milbury
SCORE History Social Sciences
Subject:
Re: Mona Lisa Site
Date:
Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:34:40 -0700
From:
peg_hill@sbcss.k12.ca.us
To:
sjfeld@erols.com
Steve,
Thanks for sending your class' wonderful Leonardo site for me to see.
Is it OK for SCORE H/SS to link to it too or does the Getty have a
corner on it?
I am sure your class won a top prize in the ThinkQuest. What are your
next plans?
Please stay in touch. SCORE H/SS would love to work with you and your
students in some way.
Your class' Mona Lisa site has been linked to SCORE H/SS grade 7, Renaissance.
Our URL is http://www.rims.k12.ca.us/score/
Peg Hill
SCORE Director
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Online Resource Centers in California linking quality
resources from the World Wide Web to the California curriculum.
Steve,
Thanks for contacting us with your site info. It sounds
excellent and I'm sure it is.
We are in the process of re-designing our site, but when
we're back on-line in the fall, look for your site to be
linked from various sections of our site- including our new
Net resources page.
thanks again,
Dustin Burleson - BurgWeb webmaster
Dustin Burleson - BurgWeb Webmaster
Wheelersburg High School
Wheelersburg, Ohio USA
Home Page Email: webmaster@burgweb.scoca.ohio.gov
Other Email: burleson_d@whbghs.scoca.ohio.gov
Home Page URL: http://burgweb.scoca.ohio.gov
** Through God all things are possible **
** "Be kind to one another" -- Sesame Street **
The Gateway to Educational Materials Project
To:
sjfeld@erols.com
Dear Steve,
Thank you for directing us to your site. It looks really
great -- your
students did a wonderful job.
I think that your da Vinci resource would be a great
addition to another
project we have here at the Information Institute of
Syracuse.
The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) project is a
consortium effort
with the mission of providing an easy "one stop, any stop"
access to
educational materials on the Internet. GEM is a project of
the U.S.
Department of Education's National Library of Education and
the ERIC
Clearinghouse on Information and Technology.
GEM got its start when officials from the Department of Ed
realized two
things. First, while there is an enormous amount of
high-quality
educational information on the Internet, it is scattered --
teachers don't
always know where to go to find creative ideas for
instruction. Second,
existing searching technology (such as traditional search
engines which
scan documents for keywords) don't support the kind of
searching teachers
need to do -- to find lesson plans by grade level, by state
standard, etc.
GEM answers these needs.
GEM is building a digital library of Internet-based
educational material.
First, using GEMcat (cataloging software), catalogers create
metadata for
educational information distributed across the Internet
(found on the
Websites of various collection holders, such as AskERIC,
Microsoft
Encarta, and the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse). The
metadata
allows our harvest software to identify and organize the
educational
materials. GEM supplies training, training materials, and
software for
your catalogers, and cataloging is a fairly efficient
process. Once the
cataloger is familiar with the procedures, the minimal
cataloging
necessary normally takes about 10 minutes per lesson plan.
Since you have
only one resource, we would be happy to catalog "Why is the
Mona Lisa
Smiling?" for you.
The metadata allows our harvest software to identify and
organize
educational materials. The harvest then creates a master
list (the
Gateway) of pointers to educational materials. This is much
like cards in
a library catalog -- pointers to useful information.
To see the Gateway for yourself, go to: 
www.thegateway.org
Collection holders do not pay a fee to participate in GEM.
The key role
of collection holders is cataloging and contributing their
metadata
records to The Gateway. No previous education in cataloging
is required
of your catalogers. GEM will supply trainers and training
materials to
prepare your staff for cataloging, and technical support
(listserv, email
address, 800#) is available for the users and collection
holders of GEM.
If you are interested in joining the GEM project, we ask
that you fill out
the participation form, which can be found at:
http://www.geminfo.org/Participation/Applying/index.html
You have created a wonderful site. Let us help you share it
with the
world!
Regards,
The Gateway to Educational Materials Project
Assistant to Mike Eisenberg
GEM Project Representative
Art History with Michelli
From:
Pippin Michelli
To:
Steve Feld sjfeld@erols.com
Hello Steve Feld:
I have just visited your site, and find it very interesting - indeed I
have made a link to "Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?" in the Renaissance
section of my Art History Browser.
Thanks for drawing my attention to it.
Best wishes,
Pippin Michelli
Art Department
St. Olaf College
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/michelli/index4.html
From: Uksforum@aol.com
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 10:20:20 EDT
To: jfkhs@ns2.con2.com
Subject: Mona Lisa@UKS M@ths
Hi again, Steve,
We've linked to you from a new M@ths 
page at UK Schools - not sure if it's on
topic but it might generate some (well-deserved!) interest amongst non-arts
teachers!
Best wishes,
* Diana Rolf, Webmaster
* UK-Schools Forum
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Art Resources
Date:
Sun, 05 Jul 1998 20:50:12 -0600
From:
Dan Hammes
To:
sjfeld@erols.com
Thank you for letting us know about your
site. We have added your site to
our Art Resources page in the Study
Resources area at Homeschool Central.
If it is appropriate, we would appreciate
a link back to our site as well.
Dan Hammes
Homeschool Central
http://abidingweb.com/hsc
Subject:
GA's Web Award
Date:
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:07:24 +0000
From:
Glenn Akiyama
To:
sjfeld@erols.com
Site name: Why Is the Mona Lisa Smiling?
Date submitted: 6/14/98
Reviewer(s): GA, BA, JS
Reference#: A238
Hi, Steve. Thank you for applying for my
web award. After reviewing your
site, we are pleased to present you with
GA's Silver Award. You and your
team have created a very nice site,
indeed. Very informative, and good
use of multimedia. We congratulate you on
a job well done.
You'll find the award attached to this message. Upon receiving this
award, a note of acknowledgment would be greatly appreciated. And, if
you choose to accept this award, let us know when it's posted, so we can
add your site to my winners list. Again, thank you for your
interest...and continued good luck with your website!
Glenn Akiyama
GA's Web Design
gakiyama@cruzio.com
A high school in New York has developed an award winning website which has
a very interesting study of Leonardo da Vinci. The page we find most
intriguing is the one called "Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling?" Internet
Inquiry. The mystery seems to have been solved. And a very interesting
solution it is. See for yourself at /13681
The school website is http://www.edu-net.com/~jfkhs
Visit for more interesting treats - like Leonardo's music.
Ramapo Catskill Library System
KidsClick Inventions
From: "Geoffrey (Jeff) Nickerson" Geoffrey@allworld.net
Reply-To: Sales@allworld.net
Organization:AllWorld Internet Services
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Dear Steve,
You write a convincing letter, and if nothing else, perhaps
I will run you a free ad on the Joke of the Day! I like what
you're up to.
http://www.allworld.net/allworld/jokes/awjokes.html
Jeff Nickerson
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 17:16:02 PDT
From: "Trevor Nash-Keller"
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Thanks for applying for my award. I visited your site and
thought it was really well done. To claim your award,
simply paste the small bit of html below into your page.
From:
"Jon Osbeck"
To:
Winner@germany.it.earthlink.net
.Cool Reality Award. - You Won!
Go to
http://www.cybergold.com/pid/1205_cg_201
and click on "Sign Up", and just fill out
a few
question boxes and that it. I get a buck
for
every sign up, and you make money also!
I'll check to see if you have signed me
up,
and than I will put you on my award page.
Every penny helps to keep .Artistic
Reality.
Now on with the awards... :-)
![[
.Creative
Web Designs. | .Free COOL Animation.
]](image/coolawar.gif)
.Cool Reality Award.
Congratulations on your site! Your site
has been
awarded the .Cool Reality Award. This
award is given
to sites that have elegant graphics,
content, and a
cool sense of being about it.
* PLEASE GO TO: *
http://www.ArtReality.com
Then go to ".Cool Awards." on the
navigation bar.
RIGHT CLICK on the image (.Cool Reality
Award.),
then SAVE it to your hard drive, and thats
it!
It is a requirement that you have a link
back to our
site as a hyperlink from this award. The
hyperlink
for the award will be:
a href="http://www.ArtReality.com
I really enjoy your site. Keep up the good
work!
Feel free to explore our site. Also please
tell
your friends about Artistic Reality!
Subject:
winner
Date:
Sun, 28 Jun 1998 17:27:10 -0400
From:
"Bruce K. Hollingdrake" lagoon@total.net
To:
sjfeld@erols.com
Congratulations on a fine site. 
At Web Gear we are always looking
for new sites that might be a little different from the norm. Easy
navigation, and quick load times are always a must, but creativity is the
most important. Please accept our award. A link to your site will be on
our new winners list shortly.
Bruce Hollingdrake
Hollingdrake's Web Gear
From: UK-Schools Forum
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:54:59 EDT
To: jfkhs@ns2.con2.com
Subject: Re: Invitation to visit our arts driven web site resource
Hi, Steve,
Sorry to have taken so long to get back to you. 
We've been reorganising our
site, and I'm pleased to be able to tell you that we've now linked to your
site on the UK-S Forum 'Quick Fix for Teachers - Teaching Resources - Art'
section.
We've put it there because this is the busiest section of the website at the
moment, but we may well repeat from other sections because, as we discussed,
it has a wide range of uses!
Best wishes to you all,
Diana Rolf
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
* Webmaster: UK-Schools Forum
* http://members.aol.com/uksforum/
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Date:
Fri, 03 Jul 1998 06:17:20 -0700
From:
Bob Turner
To:
sjfeld@erols.com
Hi,
What an excellent piece of work this is. Attached is the IF award.
Best Regards,
Bob Turner
Date:
Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:00:40 -0400
From:
Wayne Hilburn
To:
sjfeld@erols.com
Steve...
.
Saw your "Why Is The Mona Lisa Smiling" page and it looks great!
You have a good grasp of what the internet can be used for and the
graphics are super.
I added your Mona Lisa site to:
World Mysteries... just click on the Globe.
http://www.dmgi.com/europe.html
Congratulations on a well done site!
Wayne Hilburn
Hi!
Your site was nominated for 
Myriad’s On Target Award, for an
outstanding page promoting art education.
I visited your site "Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling" at
/13681/data/davin2.shtml and it is
fabulous!!! If you would like to accept the On Target Award,
you can find the graphic for it at:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8020/TAWARD.GIF
Please save the graphic and then load it to your own site’s
directory, so that your page loads the graphic from your own
site.
Please do link the graphic to the On Target Award page at:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8020/taward.html
For more information about the On Target Award, you can
follow the above link.
If you accept the award, please let me know so I can add you
to the *winners list*.
Congrads & Thanks,
Melissa Birkholz
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