Saturday, September 18, 2010

Unit 1 - Gathering a Digital Collection


It took me a couple of weeks to decide on a digital collection that would: 1) Not be made up of vacation photos, 2) Potentially useful/informative to others and 3) Be a subject on which I have some knowledge. Most of the digital collections I visited had historic photos or historic texts on subjects from transportation to baseball. Since I am not a historian or a sports fan, I finally settled on a series of French lesson audio files.

When it comes to categorizing the files, format and date are of little use. My first inclination is to allow tagging them by difficulty level, subject, author, and location where the conversation is supposedly taking place (e.g. Paris, Nice or Senegal).