Multimedia Scrapbooks

Continuing on the idea of adding multimedia aspects to my project, I decided to search and see what was out there for multimedia scrapbooks. My search came up with a lot of school projects, most of the scrapbooks seem to have been done over a country or time period. I thought they were a neat way for kids to learn about these places. I really liked the idea that they had links, images, videos, and soundclips that they gathered, and that anyone could add to the page. That was pretty cool. One site, Multimedia Scrapbooks, gives a brief description of the items that would be used in these kinds of scrapbooks: photographs, powerpoint presentations, stories, maps, graphs, facts, sound clips, videos, and so on. The site itself was pretty basic, and is probably used on a small scale for an elementary school class, but the idea is good. With a multimedia scrapbook, you have so many more resources at your hands. There are already sites like this for celebrities, but imagine if you were able to build your own legacy online with all your stories. People would be able to find out about your life, or perhaps just the select few you allow.

The one multimedia scrapbook that stood out to me was on stories from WWII. For students, I found this site to be very well put together! It had an album background, which gave it the effect of actually reading an album. You could click on links to hear the stories that different students had to tell of their grandparents who had been in WWII. They told the stories from their own words and some even had audio clips. It is neat that these children are taking what they hear from their grandparents, and preserving the stories online for future generations to find. There are so many ideas out there for preserving stories, we just need a community to share and collaborate on all of them so they can be told and preserved!

Here is a screenshot of one of the stories from the WWII scrapbook. I liked how Ben told the story in his own words and included sound bites and pictures to add to the experience.