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January 04, 2006
HFC Moment of the week (archive.org)
Categories: Pictures
HFC = Holy Freakin' Crap, used when you find something that is almost unbelievable.
In this case, it is archive.org, an internet repository of public domain media. They have texts, films, music -- if it's digital and public domain, it's in there.
Why is this a HFC moment? First, there is the music. All kinds of live shows, from Greatful Dead stuff to a David Gray concert to Rose Hill Drive's set from Asheville, where I saw them open up for Wilco. (You can find their set here. Then you can download it, listen, and see why Sarah and I had to wait in the lobby for a while.) The music on the site is cool, especially if you are into jam band sorts of music.
It really excites me from an educator's point of view. I can download clips and newsreels, edit them with iMovie or whatever, splice in Powerpoint slides, put different clips together, and do whatever else to create a primary-text multimedia presentation. If I am a history teacher and we are going to learn about WW II, there are newsreels, speeches, and all sorts of other material in archive.org that would be an incredible resource for my students.
The educational possibilities make me just go HFC!
Posted by Nakia at January 4, 2006 03:01 PM