Having just spent 4 1/2 years teaching with media everyday at The Museum of
Television & Radio in California, I would strongly push you to include a
media library and viewing stations where they could preview it.
My ideal for teachers would be that they could also have access to tape
editing equipment where they could construct their own teaching tapes with
edited segments. But that would presume you have the rights for reproduction
and that is a huge issue. We were able to construct our own edit tapes of the
clips we wanted to teach from, for use on site only. It was a powerful tool
for us because we could hand select short segments that could be woven
together to make exactly the points we wanted to introduce with stop and
start points we controlled without having to fumble around with inserting and
ejecting a lot of tapes.
NASA does an interesting thing with the vast collection of video tapes they
have on space. They duplicate tapes for teachers if the teachers provide
blank tapes. Of course those tapes are in the public domain, so there aren't
the same rights issues.
Tapes you could produce and have available for teachers that look over the
shoulder of master teachers, would be nice. You could video tape area
teachers using some of your resources in a classroom so that teachers could
see the resources in action. Maybe a local high school or community college
film department would help you with this.
I would also want a place to find good visuals, copy them and protect them
for continuing use. A good color printer, a scanner, and a laminator would
be on my list. Also several computer stations that could connect to the
Internet for downloading images. And some guide or pick lists of suggested
and recommended sites.
Aside from having the tapes, and providing preview space and technology, even
perhaps an editing bay, I would suggest recommendations. I am thinking about
a display something like what you see in some of the commercial bookstores
where the employees recommend their favorite titles. Perhaps a board of
consulting teachers and specialists could highlight selections on a display
shelf and include comments in a searchable data base or printed guide. You
could change this monthly.
A family resource section where teachers could download information about
enrichment classes on the topics they are teaching about and home activities
that are fun, perhaps from post-visit sheets from some of the local museums,
zoos, planetariums, etc. Maybe you could have an "Extra credit" certificate
that could be personalized and printed out at your space to encourage
teachers to use all their community resources as part of their educational
attack.
A newsletter for the resource center that keeps up regular communication with
your clientele, with reviews of new material, illustrations of the resources
in action, etc.
What a lot of fun to be able to think big, dream, and live in the ideal for a
while. Best of luck in your planning and your project.
Diane Siegel
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