Childrens portal to Trondheim

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Childrens portal to Trondheim
Barnas Trondheimsportal
Et interaktivt møte med kunst og kultur i
Trondheim

• An interactive meeting with art and culture in
  Trondheim

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BARNAS TRONDHEIMSPORTAL presentation

• The project is to develop Barnas Trondheimsportal
  (henceforth called BT), a web portal for the
  kindergarten in Trondheim and a classroom for
  learning in digital media attached to the
  subjects music, drama, art and the Norwegian
  language.
• The Web portal shall be framed as an animated map
  of Trondheim and accommodated use in the
  kindergarten.
• BT shall stengthen the kindergarten calibre as
  intermediary of culture, and the kindergartens
  use of digital media. BT shall be made so that it
  will become easily for the kindergartens
  personnel to adopt IKT as a creative tool along
  with kids.
• It shall give the culture institutions an
  alternative to reach out to the kindergarten,
  children and parents, and visitors to Trondheim
  with children. The project can be expanded
  nationally and in to the school.

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BARNAS TRONDHEIMSPORTAL in three stages

• Stage 1 Experts in team
• Start to develop a prototype of the portal and a
  technical base
• At stage 1 it will be attempted to make sites for
  three locations. These places will be Trondheim
  Kunstmuseum (art gallery), Nidarosdomen
  (cathedral) and Trondheim Folkebibliotek
  (library).

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Stage 2 Making the portal operative

• Programming the portal so its ready to use. After
  the technical base is ready we can start to make
  the pedagogic workshops attached to the portal.

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Stage 3 - Include entire Trondheim

• At stage 3 Barnas Trondheimsportal will become
  augmented so that it includes all culture
  institutions and all kindergartens in Trondheim.

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Stage 4 Research

• At stage 4 staff at DMMH will research on how
  Barnas Trondheimsportal affects the kids in the
  kindergartens relations to the culture
  institutions in Trondheim, and how the portal is
  becoming an arena for learning in digital media.

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How does BT work?

• When a group of kids in the kindergarten, along
  with an member of the staff open the portal they
  will see a animated map of Trondheim were they
  can click on different art- and culture
  institutions and get to there sites.
• To all the locations in the portal it attached a
  assignment and the kindergarten have to visit the
  institution to find the answer.
• In BT the kids also finds their own kindergarten,
  so that they can bee able to how they have to
  travel to get to the culture institution they
  want to visit.

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Example - Trondheim Art gallery

• When a group in the kindergarten is clicking at
  Trondheim Kunstmuseum they will see some pictures
  and information about the gallery's exhibitions.
  
• It will be virtual location were the kindergarten
  herself can lay out pictures, so that these
  becomes displayable both for other the
  kindergarten and for the parents.
• With BT the kindergarten can easily make
  pedagogic documentation of their activities and
  the parents can see what their children are make
  in the kindergarten.

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• BT will able the kindergartens to draw pictures,
  scan pictures, draw hypertext, work on digital
  history telling, bringing forward digital
  pictures and movies, make sound and music, etc.
• By BT kindergartens will get an alternative to
  eksperiment and to develop their experiences with
  digital tools.
• The kids are getting an alternative to bring
  along their experience with media in to the
  kindergarten, and a way to acquire new competence.

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Aim for the project

• To strengthen the kindergarten as culture arena.
• Take digital media seriously.
• Afford children an alternative so that they can
  experience that digital tools can be fun to use.
• Support kids curiosity, creativity and afford
  challenge starting from their interests,
  knowledge and abilities.
• Participation and co-operation.
• Make the staff in the kindergarten develop a
  competence with digital media.

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What kind of help do we need? Specifications

• We need help to make a prototype for the Internet
  portal.
• We think that the portal can be made as a kind of
  mashup from Google Maps and Google blogger. We
  will be able to use the Google system and keep
  everything on their servers if we manage to make
  the portal so it can be adopted in their system.
  We will build the system from open codes.
• We also need a system on how to use and access
  the culture institutions in the portal, and a
  design for how we can control the permissions to
  the system.
• We want to find out how we can integrate the
  technical frame and the design. We want a
  prototype with links we can select on the screen.
  Design and functionality has to be bound
  together.