--- "Chaplock, Sharon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Just to be clear, I'm speaking of learning objects using Bank's
> definition of Learning Object: "a relatively small, reusable resource,
> through which a coherent, identifiable piece of learning can be achieved."
> Small efforts or large projects such as Pachyderm are all of interest.

Okay, I might be a bit behind on the term of the month here but could you
translate that definition into English? From my interpretation of that, any
"prop" or "teaching tool" is a "learning object". For example, a piece of rope
that I use to demonstrate knots that sailors would have used would be a
"learning object".

I don't think anyone really catalogs them (though I could be wrong) like museum
objects but some places do have inventories of their educational materials that
might be what you are thinking of. Or they could be actual objects in the
collection that lessons are based around. I use the spinning wheels in my
historic house's spinning wheel collection to demonstrate spinning as part of a
lesson on textiles. But again, I don't have a catalog per say of learning
objects.

Deb

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