A Collaborative Effort Exploring the Potential of the Internet
in the Creation of Educational Resources
The Internet: New Opportunities for Compilers of Collections
As a result of the expansion of the Internet, there is now the opportunity both to draw inspiration and insight from a much greater part of the whole of human experience—from thousands of years of inspiration and insight—and the opportunity to share what has been gathered together with a significant segment of people now living on this planet Earth.
What resources might we draw from, and what pieces of the collective human experience might we gather together, to share with others? What goals might we hope to achieve by bringing together excerpts from many different circumstances, expressed in many different forms and genres?
Summary of This “Special Moments of Inspiration and Insight….” Project
The seed idea of this “Special Moments of Inspiration and Insight…” Reader is to gather together excerpts from books (in every category and genre) and documents in the English language, which in some way shine a light on some virtue, way of being or thinking, or some significant experience, which reveals an essence of the human spirit necessary to live a good life and contribute to the greater good of the whole. The excerpts which are selected will be organized into categories which grow out of the input received, and become the structure for an e-book—which will be accessible for free, for both downloading and printing into hard copy.
As a starting point, this writer has created a “Table of Contents” which references excerpts which may be used (a significant number of excerpts will require permission from copyright owners)—and which is provided to suggest examples of excerpts which might achieve the goals of the project (see more details about goals, see "Introduction" in "About This Project" section of this website). That “Table of Contents” currently contains references to more than 150 excerpts from classics in Young Readers’ Classics, History, Exploration, Fiction Short Story, Fiction Novel, Fiction Plays, Fiction Humor, etc. from more than 63 different sources—and titles and artists associated with more than 44 popular songs and old time sing along songs. As another starting point idea, this project is also seeking copies of hand-made illustrative art to provide representative images, depict scenes, and highlight important elements of the content as a way of emphasizing the value of home-spun wisdom. The project is collaborative in the sense that, although there is an initial outline and specific examples provided by this writer as a starting point, there is every hope that input, suggestions, and specific recommendations will result in many excerpts which are far more compelling and inspiring than the ones in this starting point presentation.
