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Classification:
Educational music-oriented collaborative environments
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Description:
It is an Italian portal that provides educational resources on computer music. It meets the thematic needs of the network of electronic music made up of 25 schools, in the direction of creating a virtual space for training, design, sharing, integration and communication. In addition, the portal offers products and musical projects done by students and teachers, and researches devoted to languages and cultural traditions of linguistic minorities in our country.
Target Group:
The portal is aimed at students in Italian schools. The experiment involved 25 secondary schools, located in southern Italy.
Technology:
MAIN PORTAL: Microsoft ASP.NET
TOOLS:
- Video streaming: Adobe Flash
Source: This information was derived from an inspection of the site.
Usability and Accessibility:
Musiweb, being a pre-MODEM project limited to Italian schools, was disseminated in the Italian language only and doesn’t offer information n other languages. The assessment of its usability is therefore focusing mainly on design considerations. Being made in 2005, Musiweb is characterized by a static page format where user input is conveyed to specific areas of the site, such as the community area for instance, where users can share experience on good practices, use a database of sound samples, and find advice on the use of ICT for educational purposes.
Access to the collaborative areas of Musicweb is closed to unregistered visitors, which is a useful feature to protect the privacy of the students, but it also means that Musiweb isn’t showcasing its collaborative and creative features by other means than descriptive texts and other formal content, and that the results of the project’s research is not shared to a full extent with schools or students that are not registered on the platform.
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