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Classification:
Educational music-oriented collaborative environments
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Description:
It 'a pilot project to ensure access to innovative ICT-based materials (eg, multimedia educational materials, websites and e-learning) to a large number of people. The project aims to contribute at improving the quality and foster innovation in vocational training. These two objectives operate in an integrated manner so that tools, methods and concepts, as well as concrete materials which are developed during the project, can be used or adapted to changing environments.
Target Group:
The project is aimed at students of secondary schools, with no particular musical skills. This is a pilot project that has been experimented in 15 schools located in southern Italy.
Technology:
MAIN PORTAL: Microsoft ASP.NET
TOOLS: N/A
Source: This information was derived from an inspection of the site.
Usability and Accessibility:
The evaluation of Musinet’s usability needs to be placed into the temporal context to which it belongs (2002-2004). As argued in Musinet’s project descriptions, the use of digital tools for music creation in schools was poorly developed in 2002, and Musinet was in that sense having different objectives than those of Open Sounds. The dissemination of the project’s material was to intended as a guide to digital self-production, which could then lead to sharing ideas and reflections on the portal. In 2011-2012, the possibilities of digital creation are better known and the tools more potent and diverse.
Musinet’s website is intuitive but also somewhat conformist. The nature of the project resulted in giving the project’s background information, research and dissemination most of the focus, whereas the creative functionalities are difficult to find and, therefore, to access.
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