Stanley L. Klos: Difference between revisions

In 1999 Klos founded The Virtualology Project, a website designed with its own search engine, Evisum, hosting historical documents, art, natural history research and biographies, and coupled with an online research model including over 7,500 unique URL addresses of notable topics. It hosts a copyrighted, edited version of ''[[Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography]]'' under its FamousAmericans.net website.<ref>{{cite news |first= Mary|last= Carney|authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Upper St. Clair archivist lends documents of Founding Fathers to library. |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_south/20010801s19clair0801p4.asp |quote=Klos envisions the Internet as an adjunct to learning and hopes to work with teachers and students in surfing the Web in search of classroom assignments. He has a Web site called Virtualology.com and has created sites for famous world leaders. |publisher=[[Pittsburgh Post -Gazette]] |date= August 1, 2001 |accessdate=2007-09-25 }}</ref> Virtualology created an online educational venue where students published their work on the relevant websites. These educational sites were organized into five virtual museums and one virtual library. Each domain name became an exclusive student-publishing web site. Student submissions were presented through their teachers and routed directly to the individual sites either to the URLS' editing sponsors or to Virtualology Editors. Editing sponsors were educators from a variety of educational institutions including museums, libraries, foundations, universities, and historical societies who became responsible for their URL’s content. Virtualology created an environment where students published their work on URLS named for the topic of their research. 13 months after Virtualology's launch ''[[USA Today]]'' voted it as one of its “Hot Sites”.<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/tech/2001-04-02-hotsites.htm USA Today Hot Sites], USATODAY.com 2001</ref>