COINE is a good place to start, as well as Elgg.net, downloadable Open Source Content Management Systems are not always the best option becasue they often require quite complicated setup, but ones like Wordpress, Mambo, and PHPNuke are relatively painless. Drupal with CivicCRM is the best for a large Community website and has extensive audio and video uploading facilities. Elgg is designed primarily fro teaching community websites and is worth a look.
Nicole Smith
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From: elearning projects group: museums and galleries, libraries and archives on behalf of Scott Wilson
Sent: Tue 28/11/2006 13:15
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Subject: Re: Systems for personal stories
Wikis can also be useful for making freeform hypertext stories. Edublogs (http://edublogs.org/) offers both free blogs (wordpress) and wikis for students and teachers.
On 28 Nov 2006, at 12:02, Walter Milner wrote:
For the generic version - how about <http://wordpress.com/> http://wordpress.com/
Its free and easy, can be used as a conventional blog, they can have separate 'pages', they can upload text image audio and video, has a simple URL which can be linked to,
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From: elearning projects group: museums and galleries, libraries and archives [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bridget McKenzie
Sent: 28 November 2006 10:24
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Subject: Systems for personal stories
Hello
If you were running a low budget project, advising learning groups with no funds to create their own digital stories (e.g. writing their life stories and family/community histories) whatfree and easy websites would you suggest they use?
I'm interested in two categories:
- generic and flexible applications they can link to or install into their own URL (e.g. school website)
- websites dedicated to hosting heritage/family digital storytelling (inviting text/image/audio & video, not just the assumption that digital storytelling = video)
Hope you can help
Many thanks
Bridget McKenzie
Director, Flow Associates
152 Waller Road, London, SE14 5LU
07890 540178
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