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Beacon Media (http://www.beaconmedia.com.au/) is a voluntary organisation that provides Christian Education Resources for all levels. When I found out about their operation, I contacted them to offer our services.

Beacon Media have a similar vision to EdMMIR.com for creating interesting and informative educational resources, and welcome the chance to add a multimedia dimension, especially animation, to their operation. There is so much scope and potential for worthwhile, informative and engaging resources with the use of multimedia animation… really, the sky’s the limit!

I will be working on various projects for free, but due to my financial situation at present, paid projects will have to take precedence.

If you wish for more information on this new move, contact us or Beacon Media at:
http://www.beaconmedia.com.au/bm/index.php?option=com_contact&view=category&catid=0&Itemid=78

Exciting opportunities for everyone concerned, here.
* Free multimedia resources for teachers or homeschooling parents to use, that could be tailor-made to their particular needs
* I get to do the stuff I’ve dreamed about doing.

Any comments, suggestions, and especially donations (to keep our resource development free!) would be most welcome.
Watch this space for more developments.

Cheers

David B

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Many schools and struggling learning institutions such as community learning centres are often strapped for cash to afford some of the high-powered and engaging material as used by big business training organisations and cashed-up industry trainers etc.

There’s an idea I’d like to try out — or at the very least, discuss it with anyone interested.

I’d like to mount some small interactive learning units (known technically as “Learning Objects”) on my website, covering a range of topics that lend themselves to multimedia. This would mainly be in the science and technology areas, because that’s my background.

For instance, I could create an interactive Flash movie on “An Introduction to Cells” where I had a large plant and/or animal cell image with rollover spots, naming the parts of the cell. Click on that part, and it brings up a window with a larger image and explanation of its function — maybe an animation of the process involved. In some cases I can create a 3D animation where appropriate.

If it’s successful, I can branch into Microbes or specialised cells in complex organisms, then Protozoons, pathogens, biological processes at the microscopic level etc etc

Schools and other low budget institutions can access the basic units for free, provided they give me useful feedback for updating. If there are some that want to develop something for their particular needs, provided they give me some of their own resources and curriculum guidelines to work in, I can make them some easy-to-use resources for free, or next-to-nothing. My remuneration could come from subscribers, banner advertising, but also from other institutions who could user the specialised resources in their curriculums. I would need to retain the copyrights myself in that case, or charge a little to surrender that copyright. I may need to charge for labour-intensive units like complex educational games.

What do you think?  Could it work?

Hi there. I’m David.

Welcome to the EdMMIR Discussion Pages.

OK, so the title is just a fancy name for our blog, but we are interested in your feedback, not just a place to air our own views etc.

Our aim is to provide and promote creative ways of delivering education, mainly through interactive multimedia and creative writing. We hope to provide useful resources for both teachers, parents and students on all levels of education, and in as many disciplines as we can. The following posts will discuss our aims and philosophy in more detail.

Our apologies to those who visited before and returned to find us gone. There were some technical difficulties in setting up.

Meanwhile, please feel free to comment, by clicking on the link below.
Watch this space for more soon.