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Virtual Scrapbook
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Virtual Scrapbook focuses on providing links to a variety of media
and content types (photographs, maps, stories, facts, quotations,
sound clips, videos, virtual reality tours, etc.). Learners use
the Scrapbook links to explore aspects of the topic that they
feel are important. They then download or copy and paste these
scraps into a variety of formats: newsletter, desktop slide presentation,
collage, bulletin board, HyperStudio stack, or Web page.
From the teacher-created list of Internet sites for students
to see online, students bring back a tid-bit of information in
the form of text, maps, audio, video, poetry, songs, etc. that
they feel is important to the assigned topic. Students then create
a multimedia scrapbook using these tid-bits of information about
a given topic. As an oral presentation emphasis in the scrapbook
project, students must share with the class why they chose that
tid-bit. Scrapbooks are better created in PowerPoint or as a web
page to contain multimedia elements like music or videos.
With the use of the Internet, student creations are richer and
more sophisticated because of resources that have never been available
in classrooms before. With scrapbook projects, it is a good time
to educate students on copyright and fair use policies as well
as making contact with more expert learners via e-mail.
Finally, by allowing students to pursue their own interests amid
an abundance of choices, the Multimedia Scrapbook offers a more
open, student-centered approach that encourages construction of
meaning. Even though neither Topic Hot lists nor Multimedia Scrapbooks
target achieving specific learning, the teacher will use these
strategies to promote the constructivist learning that can happen
when students synthesize a large and contextually rich selection
of data and experiences.
The following sites are good examples of virtual scrapbooks:
The Donner Party
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner/
Exploring China
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/scrapbook.html
Good Scrapbook
http://www.ohiomemory.org/
Scrapbook
http://www.dellington.org/scrapbk/scrap00.html
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