{"id":339,"date":"2010-07-06T09:47:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2010-07-06T09:47:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T16:47:26","slug":"media-sets-for-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/339","title":{"rendered":"Media sets for remix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of a recent project, I&#8217;ve started putting together &#8220;<strong>media sets<\/strong>&#8221; &#8212; bundled collections of photos, maps, diagrams, videos, etc. on very specific topics for teachers and students to use.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example of one on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curriki.org\/xwiki\/bin\/view\/Coll_kfasimpaur\/AncientChinamediaset\">Ancient China<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Questions for you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is this something that is useful to you?<\/li>\n<li>What would make it more useful?<\/li>\n<li>What other topics would you like to see?<\/li>\n<li>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?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,5,10,35],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-media-sets","tag-oer","tag-open","tag-remix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-5t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}