Kidseye

KidsEye was developed in 2004 by Waag as an online multimedia environment that allowed children to be the main editors within educational projects. Children could use KidsEye to put articles together, publish them online and comment on the input of others.

Within every KidsEye project, the children played the central role. They could use KidsEye to publish their online content like articles and add all types of media available, such as pictures, video and sound and thus become the publishers of their own media. KidsEye has been used in several educational projects with Tate Modern in London, KIT in Amsterdam, Cinekid Festival, 6th and 8th Montessori School and the Persmuseum. In 2004 the latest version of KidsEye became available for further use in Dutch education (available until 2006).

Target groups

The primary target groups for KidsEye software were:

• Children in the age of 8-12 and their environment (parents, relatives, friends)
• Teachers of group 5-8 in primary education and also of the first groups in secondary education.
• IT staff in education
• Schoolmanagers in primary and secondary education
• Educational staff within cultural organisations
• Management of cultural organisations