MultiMedia Links

 
 

This page has been prepared for use in the Leadership Institute's

Multimedia Workshop

 | Networking & OS | MultiMedia Tutorials | Clipart, graphics & sounds |

 | Movies, iMovies, Digital Photos | Referencing & Copyright | Personal Media Needs |

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  • Don't forget to review The Leadership Institute's
    1. Newest Teacher links
    2. Search links
    3. Curriculum Areas
    4. Links for studying the Web
  • Networking Links
    • Online tutorial on computer networks, help with the basics of school computer networks, produced under a grant from the Florida Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology and the Florida Information Resource Network.
    The ILTLI's links for the Networking Tool SchoolNet Model.
  • Tutorials in MultiMedia and Operating Systems
    • More Trouble Shooting Help:
    The ILT Leadership Institute's links for trouble shooting at the Productivity Tools Page.
    Every file format type in the world from Ace Net.
    Here are a variety of tutorials. Everything from Word & Works to Multimedia.
    Adobe Tutorials!
    Photoshop Educational & Tutorials Web Resources
    Photoshop Basics, entire course online from About.com
    From Hewlett-Packard's Online Learning Center
    University of N.Dakota's Tutorials!
    (This site has just recently been revised, but is up and running again.)
    Select the "Training Materials" under the pull down menu at  The Independent School District from Rosemount MN.  For Web publishing check out their "Web Publisher" materials on the same pull down menu!
    MultiMedia: Hyperstudio and PowerPoint. (personal multimedia use below)
    Dr. Kevin Maney's Multimedia Resources at Miami University provides help for using scanners, cameras, and converting various picture formats.
    Digital Storytelling from TechLearning
    The ILT's links compiled for Ohio SchoolNet's Practitioner training.
    PowerPoint  (Microsoft Tutorials for the Classroom,  & PowerPoint)
    Hyperstudio
    Rubrics: There are various multimedia, HyperStudio, and other technology rubrics posted for Ontario Canada teachers.
  • Copyright Issues
    1. The ILTLI's other copyright links.
    2. Bibliographic Citation Format for Electronic Media, MLA, APA, and Turabian.
    3. Bibliographic Citation Marker ...enter the appropriate information into the forms at the bottom and easily create a correctly formatted MLA citation.
    4. Citing Electronic Resources from CyberBee .
    5.  Copyright on the Internet from Franklin Pierce Law Center
        6. Publisher's Rights and Wrongs in the Cyberage by Thomas G. Field, Jr.
        Web Law FAQs
    6. Copyright and other Issues
    7. Copyright workshop and classroom information from CyberBee.
    8. Intellectual Property, Copy and Fair Use guidelines and U.S. Laws and WWW Sites for same.
  • Graphics Software & Hardware assistance
    • 75 Ways to Use Your Digital Camera!
    Interested in trimming down your jpg & gif files, try JPEG Wizard or even edit/post at Kodak's Picture Playground.
    Interested in comparing scanners, digital cameras, prices features etc, try www.imaging-resource.com.
    Presentations Magazine provides a Buyers Guide.
    Special Pricing on Memory Stick Media from Sony
    How about a complete guide to digital photography? 
    Digital Imaging assistance from SONY
    Sony's Digital Imaging Page
    Adobe Tutorials!
    Photoshop Educational & Tutorials Web Resources
    Photoshop Basics, entire course online from About.com
  • Free Clip Art and animated gifs
    • Learn how to download and manipulate graphics
    GRSites.com: Collection of free images, backgrounds, buttons and more!
    ** Pics4learning.com **
    The Graphics Gallery or search Google Images or use Cleveland Digital Library for both Images & History,
    GifArt.com, AnimatedGifsNow.com and Animfactory
    Images to gather for our workshop:
    Cleveland Indian's Website and team photos, Cleveland Brown's Website and photo gallery.
    Teacher Icons (Savvy Cyber Teacher collection), or from this directory list of images
    ArtMuseum.net, Van Gogh's Van Gogh Museum!
    Search the web with The Amazing Picture Machine! Discovery School's Clip Art, Scholastic
    ClipArt.com, Clip Art Collection, The Mining Company, Bells n Whistles (many for HTML/Page editing uses)
    Pictures on the Web at Ditto.com
    Microsoft's Clips-OnLine (accessible through Word's Insert feature!)
    Web Page graphics: Buttons, bars, art all zipped at Spriteworks.com
    Corbis, some for purchase.
    Post, edit and mail your own pictures from Homestead's PhotoSite,  Kodak's Picture Playground or from Ofoto.com!
  • Sound Files
    • Music  (safe music files for kids from Wilstar.com)

    Wired Magazine's article on MP3s.
    A Collection of over 1,500 downloadable and straming tunes, eatsleepmusic.com (latest audio plugins available)
    The Internet Underground Music Archive, http://www.iuma.com (over 4,000 unsigned artists!)
    The Ultimate Band List features five new MP3 files each week.  A variety of categories to select from, listening stations and streaming music.
    A couple of MP3 Portals:  Daily MP3, MP3 2000
    And a couple Audio Search Engines: Audio Find,  MP3meta,  musicseek, Lycos MP3 Search
  •  Play That Funky Music, Web Boy!
    1. Some additional free Mp3 sound locations:  A2B Music, Amazon.com, Atomic Pop, Emusic.com
    2. Radio stations
      3. Cleveland Classical Radio, WCLV; Radio Margaritaville (a Parrothead must!); Dread Zepplin; Greatful Dead; Yahoo's Internet Radio; Radio IUMA (select the radio button at top of page)
      Freedom onLine, Radio site.
  • Sound Searching
    • Simply search for "sound effects" at Altavistaand take your pick from their "related Searches" of WAV sound effects, libraries, cartoons, movies, MIDIs and more.
  • Movies and iMovie links and QTVR examples.

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    Tips for using movies in a presentation
    Digital Storytelling from TechLearning
    MultiMedia uses with Apple's iLife
    75 Ways to Use Your Digital Camera!
    Our WebCam Links
    Software: Apple'siMovie, Capture-Edit-Effects-Share, Final Cut: Express or Pro; Pinnacle Systems (<$100!, getting started)  Pinnacle demonstration capabilities: Jeffrey Jones; Tutorials: from AtomicLearning: iMovie2, iMovie3, Final Cut Pro;  Adobe Premier; Avid; Windows folks: try Windows Movie Maker; The ILTLI's workshop materials.
    Sony's Digital Imaging Page
    Hitachi's Site 

     
  •  QuickTime Links
    • How about some links to Quick Time VR?
    WGBH Interactive
    Virtual QTVR panoramas
    Nova OnLine: Shackleton's Expedition to Antarctica
    Tech4Learning Samples
    Polaris student QTVR Projects:Our list as well as Tour CADD, Senior CADD Projects, or the Greenhouse; Tour Electronics, Senior Electronics Projects.  Mike's Desktop.
    Apple's Quicktime News is a periodic news communication from Apple.
    To subscribe to QuickTime News, visit: http://www.apple.com/enews/subscribe/
    How about a complete guide to digital photography? 
     
    You will need Quicktime 4.x, to view these movies;  download here  and read their "Windows advisory" as well.
    Macintosh Problems with Quicktime 4.0: "an error occurred trying to download the file VISEData" then try this stand-alone installer.
    Macintosh G3, Firmware or FireWire Problems: FireWire and Firmware Update; other upgrade/support information.
  • Movie Links
    • Latest Trailers:
    StarWars Attack of The Clones Trailer!
    Apple's List, Planet of the Apes
    Starwars.com and the famous trailer; Phantom Menace effects creations w/Macs.
    Search for "video" at Altavista.
    iFilm, the place for internet films!  (only access on broadband connection!)
    Want to see a 747 land on a Jeep Cherokee?  405 The Movie
    "The Challenge of the Sith" produced by one of our own colleagues from Strongsville!
    President Clinton's final days, partially directed by Bill, starring "Stuart" from the e-bay commercial!
    (QuickTime Download needed
  •   Digital Editing:  Post, edit and mail your own pictures from Kodak's Picture Playground or from Ofoto.com!
  • Images to gather for our workshop:
    • Cleveland Indian's Website and team photos, Cleveland Brown's Website and photo gallery.
    ArtMuseum.net, Van Gogh's Van Gogh Museum!
  • Digital Photos
    • Post, edit and mail your own pictures at Homestead's PhotoSite,  Kodak's Picture Playground or Ofoto.com!
  • iMovie
    • Thoughts about using this technology
    iMovie Tutorials from AtomicLearning: iMovie2, iMovie3, Final Cut Pro;  and Apple's Capture-Edit-Effects-Share
    A Complete guide to digital photography. 
  • ILTLI: Workshop Materials
    • our outline/handout, video storyboard, how to Shoot, Edit, Enhance & Share, (a project outline to work from) and AtomicLearning's iMovie2, iMovie3 tutorials.
    Digital Resources from Durham Academy.
    Apple's Digital Media for Education: Bring Learning To Life, includes Lesson Plans & ideas, creative lessons with iLife, profiles, Tips & Techniques for teachers; Documentary Filmmaking!
    Macworld Article "iMovie Tips & Tricks..."
    Alternatives products:  Adobe Premier; Avid; Windows folks: try Windows Movie Maker;
    Science & Math Project through NC Zoo;
  • Apple Education Showcase of iMovie integration.
    • Apple's Digital Media for Education: Bring Learning To Life,  (in our handouts)your video, Tips for making your movie;  iMovie collections, some lesson plans, and for those looking for a place to publish your digital video, use their free iTools for displaying your collection onLine.
    Working with iLife
    Working with stills and not movies then post, edit and mail your own pictures from Kodak's Picture Playground or even as slides at PictureTrail.
  • Results from putting this tool into the teacher's/administrator's hands
  • Results from putting this tool into the student's hands (Statistics demonstrate enhanced learning with digital video)
  • Apple Links: iMovie, film footage, QTVR
    • Apple's Quicktime News is a periodic news communication from Apple.

    To subscribe to QuickTime News, visit: http://www.apple.com/enews/subscribe/
    Apple's iMovie Starting Points
    background sets, sounds, looping audio; Apple's sound effects,
     QTVR hardware and software--panoramic tripods, stitching software,

    cameras, and more!
  • More Tutorials:
  • The ILTLI's WebCam Links
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  • You Personal MultiMedia Links
    • Highend, home technology appliances;  check out HarveyOnline TVs, Monitors, DVD-CDROM players, etc.
    Interested in comparing scanners, digital cameras, prices features etc, try www.imaging-resource.com, or try Digital Camaera Reveiws from CMP Media.
    Digital Imaging assistance from SONY
    Canon's Site and Mike's personal choice.
    Hitachi's Site (April 2001 release of Camcorder recordability to DVD!)
    Presentations Magazine provides a Buyers Guide.
    Special Pricing on Memory Stick Media from Sony
    Sony's Digital Imaging Page
    How about a complete guide to digital photography? 
    For the Teacher: 75 Ways to Use Your Digital Camera!
    Be sure to return, as we continue to update this page
    based upon input from our participants!
     
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    Mike Baker <mbaker@polaris.edu> teacher/coordinator
    Geoff Andrews <gandrews@polaris.edu> Director of Technology
    The Instruction, Learning & Technology Leadership Institute
    Polaris Career Center
    7285 Old Oak Blvd.
    Middleburg Hts. OH 44130
    (440) 891-7694
    FAX (440) 891-7723
    This page last revised 3/22/2005