Comments on: Multimedia project kits http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/01/14/multimedia-project-kits/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: the open content blog » Digital Kits and Collections http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/01/14/multimedia-project-kits/comment-page-1/#comment-1053 the open content blog » Digital Kits and Collections Sat, 15 Apr 2006 01:48:11 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=644#comment-1053 [...] So now imagine you’re a teacher wanting to quickly put together a bunch of relevant photos for students working on a project. Sure the students could search all by themselves (it’s good learning experience) but it could well be an exercise in frustration. (What’s better, a frustrated teacher or student? Hopefully neither.) Wesley worries about providing cookie cutter resources that will result in all student projects looking the same and I agree that’s a risk, but 30 students individually wasting 3-4 hours each looking for two useable, openly licensed photos of Paris (let alone something really arcane like a portrait of Marie Antoinette and the Bastille) is equally wasteful (especially with all this open content around.) [...] [...] So now imagine you’re a teacher wanting to quickly put together a bunch of relevant photos for students working on a project. Sure the students could search all by themselves (it’s good learning experience) but it could well be an exercise in frustration. (What’s better, a frustrated teacher or student? Hopefully neither.) Wesley worries about providing cookie cutter resources that will result in all student projects looking the same and I agree that’s a risk, but 30 students individually wasting 3-4 hours each looking for two useable, openly licensed photos of Paris (let alone something really arcane like a portrait of Marie Antoinette and the Bastille) is equally wasteful (especially with all this open content around.) [...]

]]> By: the open content blog http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/01/14/multimedia-project-kits/comment-page-1/#comment-276 the open content blog Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:09:21 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=644#comment-276 <strong>Digital Kits and Collections</strong> I was quite excited to find KitZu a few days back [via Dave Warlick. ] The brainchild of Hall Davidson, Kitzu provides digital kits for education which can include images, video, audio and (I assume) text—all in a convenient zipped format compl... Digital Kits and Collections

I was quite excited to find KitZu a few days back [via Dave Warlick. ] The brainchild of Hall Davidson, Kitzu provides digital kits for education which can include images, video, audio and (I assume) text—all in a convenient zipped format compl…

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