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Title: Fava (Fava_Love)
This collection is also useful for including the twitters of film societies and filmmakers.
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Title: Christina Battle
This website résumé for filmmaker Christina Battle showcases her expansive filmography. It represents the diversity of websites within this collection. Compare this expansive and dense website with the focused and light interview with Cameron Macgowan http://calgaryisawesome.com/2013/10/25/profile-cameron-macgowan/
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Title: Meet A Local Filmmaker: Cameron Macgowan
This is an illustrative portrait of one Calgary based filmmaker. It is an intimate article that not only highlights the individual, but also reveals the film-making scene in Calgary. Compare this focused and light piece to the expansive and dense website résumé cbattle.com.
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Ottawa Shooting October 2014
Although it only includes news articles from immediately after the event, the collections of articles gives a look into reactions to the event, and what was known at first. What should also be noted in this collection is the Twitter public list compiled by @globeandmail, which showcases tweets surrounding the shooting, and the memorial process afterwards.
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Title: Aboriginal Youth Identity Series: First Nations Contributions - Edukit
Another example of this collection's focus on education. Contains both content for students, and lesson plans for teachers. Gives insight into pedagogy from its extensive lesson plans. Part of a larger series called Aboriginal Youth Identity Series
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Title: Nature's Law
Representative of this collection's information on First Nation People. An insightful archive for focusing on conceptions of law within aboriginal cultures.It is thorough, and made possible by the efforts of experts.Dense with text, which provides lots of information, but comes at the cost of being less accessible.
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Title: World War II: The Homefront in Alberta
Education on Alberta's heritage during the war. Includes excepts from home front documents (such as newsletters to children).
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Volunteerism in Alberta: 100 years of Celebrating Community
Another example of this collection's focus on Alberta's heritage. This archive's topic of volunteers provides an insightful look at social and local history.
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Alberta, Naturally!
Not only is it useful for showing Alberta's natural history, but it is also a great example of a website being used for educational purposes. Although the site includes multimedia files, many can't be accessed or played.
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Alberta Inventors and Inventions: A Century of Patents
A unique collection that showcases Alberta's history through an exhaustive list of patents. Definitely useful for many areas of history: local, social, cultural, technological.
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CKUA Sound Archives
Rich source on history of Alberta radio and culture. The files of audio clips are dead, but the information on the website is still plentiful.
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