Content Clips: A Selection, Customization, and Presentation Service

Content Clips is moving from a research project to a more integrated NSDL service.  Teachers and developers can use this service to find, organize, and share multimedia objects from distributed web sites within a dynamic, visual environment (http://www.contentclips.com).  A new NSDL small grant award will support numerous site and system improvements, including interface updates, an automated feedback mechanism for activities, a book-builder template, online training aids, and 30 new sets of multimedia clips created by teachers and aligned to key elementary science topics.  Robert Payo (NSDL Resource Center) will assist with outreach and promotion activities, and advisory board members include Kim Lightle, Marcia Mardis, and Mimi Recker.  Currently, McLean Media is using the Content Clips framework to build STEM Stories (http://www.stemstories.org), an online collection that includes the biographies and personal stories of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians (NSF HRD-0734004).  A collaborative effort with the Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears project is also producing electronic books and activities for an online e-zine (http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org). In 2009, system framework updates included migration of the Content Clips metadata schema from Dublin Core XML (DC-XML) to Dublin Core RDF (DC-RDF).