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New open, sharable media sets

Posted by on June 14, 2011 in Uncategorized

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A little over a year ago, I had an idea to create pre-packaged sets of open-licensed photos, diagrams, maps, audio, video, etc., organized around themes that could be used by teachers or students in word-processed documents or presentations or used to create web sites or other multimedia presentations.

Now we have some new media sets available. Here’s the whole list:

Social studies

Science

Language Arts

For each media element in the set, just right-click the file to find the credit, license, and source link.

There are also some generic, open-licensed music selections available here.

If you have ideas for new media sets or if there are items you’d like to see added to the above sets, let us know!

And even better, if you are interested in creating your own media sets to share with your teachers and others, here are some notes on how we did this. If you upload your work to Curriki and tag with a keyword of mediaset, we’ll all be able to find them easily.

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Shareable media sets

Posted by on August 9, 2010 in Uncategorized

Awhile back, I was thinking about the idea of shareable media sets — collections of open-licensed photos, diagrams, maps, audio, video, etc. that could be used by teachers or students in word-processed documents or presentations or used to create web sites or other multimedia presentations.

I’ve taken this idea a little further and have now developed the following shareable media sets:

ancient_egypt

Social studies

Science

For each media element in the set, just right-click the file to find the credit, license, and source link.

I hope to do more of these over time. Let me know if you have ideas or requests.

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Media sets for remix

Posted by on July 6, 2010 in Uncategorized

There are so many great open resources that teachers can use in creating multimedia projects (reports, PPTs, web pages, wikis, etc.) with their students, but they take a lot of time to find and correlate.

As a part of a recent project, I’ve started putting together “media sets” — bundled collections of photos, maps, diagrams, videos, etc. on very specific topics for teachers and students to use.

Here’s an example of one on Ancient China. It includes a timeline, photos of art from various dynasties, maps, etc. Each piece is open-licensed. You can right-click the file to get source and license information.

We also have media sets for ancient Egypt, contemporary Asia, contemporary Africa, American westward expansion, human interaction with our environment, etc. with more to come.

Questions for you:

  • Is this something that is useful to you?
  • What would make it more useful?
  • What other topics would you like to see?
  • Would you be interested in attending a 3-hour workshop at a conference at which participants would all build media sets on topics of their choice?
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