Walk Through Historic Buildings: Learn to Identify the Visual Character of a Historic Building
These illustrated lessons are designed to teach students how to identify the visually distinctive materials, features, and spaces of a historic building prior to undertaking rehabilitation work. Each section is followed by a checklist which students can use to develop their own inventory of character defining materials, features, and spaces. A multiple choice quiz follows the lessons with an explanation accompanying the correct answers. The entire program takes approximately 1 hour to complete.
An Interactive Web Class on the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation
This introductory program was designed especially for historic building owners; new members of design review and historic preservation commissions; architects, contractors, and developers; maintenance personnel and others involved in the care of historic buildings; and students in historic preservation courses. Each standard is explained and illustrated with recommended applications and not recommended applications. Two quizzes are provided on the rehabilitation of a historic commercial building and one on the rehabilitation of a historic residential building. Students are asked to choose which one of the three proposed treatments meet the Secretary’s Standards. The entire program takes approximately 1 hour to complete.
The REHAB YES/NO Learning Program
This online tutorial has been specially designed to show how careful planning prior to rehabilitation work can result in choosing approaches that preserve the character of historic buildings. Twenty illustrated case studies focus on basic issues that frequently arise in the process of making changes for a continuing or new use, including exteriors, interiors, sites, and new additions. The applicable standards are identified for each case study. The entire program takes approximately 1½ hours to complete.
Managing Archaeological Collections
This distance learning presentation reviews a range of issues pertaining to the proper curation of archaeological collections. Topics include relevant laws, regulations, policies and ethics, curation in the field and lab, repositories, access, and use. Each section is accompanied by a bibliography, links and a quiz. This presentation complements the book Curating Archaeological Collections: From the Field to the Repository written by Lynne Sullivan and S. Terry Childs and published by AltaMira Press in 2003. It takes a minimum of five hours to read the material, take the quizzes, and explore all the interesting links in each section.