Content Clips: A Selection, Customization, and Presentation Service for Elementary Science Education

该项目正在为小学教师开发一种在线选择、定制和演示服务，为国家STEM教育分布式学习（NSDL）的服务不足的受众提供高质量的在线资源。它扩展了一项目标研究的结果，该研究调查了增加在线馆藏教育价值的方法。它还建立在Content Clips （CC）网站http://www.contentclips.com的基础上，该网站包括多媒体资源和Flash模板，教师可以动态地混合来自不同网站的资源，以组装定制的在线演示文稿。CC方法帮助教师将多媒体资源整合到课堂教学中，并利用电子白板和投影系统的日益普及。这项新工作是将30组图像、动画和视频剪辑组合在一起，以支持2-5年级通常教授的与标准一致的内容单元。该团队还升级了Content Clip网站的界面，为教师开发了定制演示文稿的新选项，并创建了帮助教师使用服务功能的辅助工具。外展工作包括为教师举办讲习班，并通过出版物、网站和会议进行宣传。项目团队包括来自大学、K-12学校、教育出版公司、NSDL资源中心和其他NSDL项目的专家。CC服务通过提供视觉例子和工具来扩展背景知识和发展词汇技能，为代表性不足的群体提供支持，包括ELL学生和农村社区的儿童。任何年级或学科的教师，如历史或艺术，也可以使用该系统来定制和呈现在线多媒体资源。

This project is developing an online selection, customization, and presentation service for elementary teachers that provides high quality, online resources for an underserved audience of the National STEM Education Distributed Learning (NSDL). It extends the results of a Targeted Research study that examined ways to increase the educational value of online collections. It also builds on the Content Clips (CC) web site http://www.contentclips.com, which includes multimedia resources and Flash templates that let teachers dynamically blend resources from different web sites to assemble customized online presentations. The CC approach helps teachers integrate multimedia resources into classroom instruction and takes advantage of the growing adoption of electronic whiteboards and projection systems.This new effort is assembling 30 sets of images, animations, and video clips that support standards-aligned content units commonly taught in Grades 2-5. The team is also upgrading the Content Clip site interface, developing new options for teachers to customize presentations, and creating support aids to help teachers use the service features. Outreach efforts involve workshops for teachers and promotion through publications, web sites, and conferences. The project team includes experts drawn from universities, K-12 schools, educational publishing companies, the NSDL Resource Center, and other NSDL projects.The CC service supports underrepresented groups, including ELL students and children in rural communities, by providing visual examples and tools to expand background knowledge and develop vocabulary skills. Teachers of any grade or subject, such as history or art, can also use the system to customize and present online multimedia resources.