Television/Video Production 

iMovie Tips and Tricks--simple how to's to make your movies better

Television Production Course--A complete textbook--online.  Features over 70 modules with many readings and examples.

KWN--Kid Witness News has information about the video contest and an excellent glossary of video terms.

iCademy Awards--another video contest you could enter.

SCHOOLTV.com--Although the site is aimed at selling books, it has a tips section that is very good.

iMovie Links--this is another teachers collection of links for iMovie--full of examples, tutorials and other helpful information.

Sample student Videos--from Moose Jaw School.

Claymation--everything from story ideas to equipment and software.

Animated Language--ideas and examples for simple animation

ETV--Wykoff Middle School's daily newscast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Media Literacy

Media Literacy Clearinghouse--great starting place with menu organized by theme to take you to hundreds of resources

Center for Media Literacy--good place to find articles and information on media related issues

Digital History--hollywood and film history information

Media Literacy Review--currently features collection of articles on issues ranging from the design and development of multimedia to careers

New Mexico Media Lit Project--very easy to read resources (see making a commercial)---unfortunaqtely will not work on Macs

Media Analysis tools--from the Library of Congress

Just Think--great information and facts aboujt media impact

Media Literacy.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sound and Music Resources

A1 Free Sound Effects--This is very fast--It also has every sound you could want and is easy to work with

Stone Washed-- This site has over 1500 sounds and noises-- Its also very easy to find and is very fast

GR Sites--largest archive of free sound effects on the internet

Freeplay Music---theme and background music that can be used for free in videos and presentations.

SoundAmerica--movie and TV sound clips (be careful of pop-ups)

FreeAudioClips.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graphics and Images

Microsoft Clip Gallery--great collection of images, photos, and sound. If using with other applications copy clips to project folders and rename before inserting.

Free Clipart--thousands of copyright free images you can use.

Cool Text--this is a great site for making titles and buttons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Web Design

Macromedia Dreamweaver:  good tutorials, sample projects and more.

Dreamweaver Tutorial:  Three levels of tutorial ranging from basic structure to advanced tools.

Microsoft FrontPage Resources--Microsoft's site with tips and tricks and and other information.

ActDen FrontPage Tutorial--join Pixel and Blip in web design basics--very easy to read, but unclear navigation.   

IceMocha Frontpage Tutorial--well organized index makes it easy to find quick answers.

Electric Teacher FrontPage Tutorial--step-by-step instructions for many common tasks.

Webmonkey--great source for codes.

Webmonkey for Kids--features step-by-step lessons, and project ideas. 

W3 Schools--Advanced tutorials for HTML, XML and more.

Web Page Design for Designers---

 

Juli

 

Flash Animation

WebThang--easy to follow step by step tutorials on many topics

Macromedia Flash Developer Center—Tutorials, samples and learning guides
Macromedia Exchange--a great resource to see examples and get prebuilt components
FlashKit--tutorial from basics to special effects to games

Sport is Life--great example of a flash slideshow

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Photography

Kodak--Site offers many great features including: a digital learning center, ofoto, and more.

PhotographyTips--tips organized by subjects, technique, and more.

Photocourse in Digital Photography--Table of contents with well organized course and great photo examples.

Shortcourses--digital photography resource with excellent how-tos.

How Digital Cameras Work--from the how stuff works website

BetterPhoto--great how-to tips and galleries by members.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CAD/Design

Rhino--3D modeling software home page.  Examples and projects can be found.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ISSR

The Seattle Times--Today's news from our local newspaper.

New York Times Learning Network

WashingtonPost Kids

CNN Student News

Time for Kids

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Technology Basics

Computer Literacy and Understanding Employment--complete lessons and activities for independant work.

Keyboarding

Internet

Introduction to the Internet--a great resuorce loaded with general information, history and much more.

Questions and Answers about Copyright--a classroom full of students with common questions about copyright issues.

Word

Excel

Landmarks for Schools--raw data and ideas for learning excel.

The Data Library--more sets of data to use with excel.

PowerPoint

PowerPoint and Quicktime on Indezine--Help for inserting movies into PPT.

 

Other Cool Stuff

Make-a-Flake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Core Subjects

Math

 

Science

 

Art

SmartKids--interactive flash site with art info, history and terms

 

Language Arts

Google--the best and most complete search engine.

Dictionary sites--dictionary.com or Merriam-Webster are both great options to find definitions, synonyms and correct spellings.

Slate Citation Machine--you'll never have to remember the punctuation rules again!

The Parts of Speech --not as fun as schoolhouse rock, but it has all the info.

American Folklore--a great site with hundreds of stories.

Daily Grammar--a huge archive of lessons that you can work through to practice your skills.

Scholastic--fun things related to your favorite books.

Wacky Web Tales--write or read stories on the web.

Questions and Answers about Copyright--a classroom full of students with common questions about copyright issues.

Electric Soup--very cool online poetry project

The Big Six

 

 

Social Studies

Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport--search a virtual world of resources.  Great for 6th grade Ancient Civilization.

CIA World Fact Book--current facts and statistics about every country.

50 States.com--facts and information about each of the 50 states.

Congress for Kids--an interactivew site to learn about our government.

National Geographic Education--great reference site for maps and information as well as online adventures.

Education Place Maps--printable maps for anywhere in the world.

The Valley of the Shadow--interesting site comparing two communities during the Civil War

American Revolution Resources--a vast list of links to other sites and some webquests.

Best of History--an award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts

America's Story-- American history divided by state.

David Rumsey Map Collection--Map Collection contains to date over 8,000 maps online

History Matters--One of the best online US History resources is provided by George Mason University

 

Teacher Stuff

Easy Grade Pro Help--compiled by Roberta Johnson

eSIS quick reference

Seattle Public Schools Instructional Technology Site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ween

Alcohol/Tobbacco advertising

http://www.medialiteracy.net/mlm.shtml

 

Presidential Race

Music Downloading

Violence

 

 

Game Creation

http://www.csun.edu/~vceed002/ref/games/index.html#Taboo

http://www.wam.umd.edu/~aubrycp/project/jeopardy.html

 

MLK

http://www.life.com/Life/mlk/mlkpics.html

http://www.blackvoices.com/feature/mlk_98/

http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/audiov.html

http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/micro/321/84.html

http://home.att.net/~hlhanson/

www.kiddyhouse.com/Holidays/MLK/MLK.html -

http://www.cumbavac.org/web_sites_on_martin_luther_king.htm