Research Links for Video/Web Class

Links for Daily Announcements

When you don't have enough to talk about and want to jazz up your news presentation, or find a theme to work with, check out these sites.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/advertising/admeter/2008admeter.htm

Weird and Wacky Holidays  http://www.holidays.net/dailys.htm

http://www.thekcrachannel.com/womenshistory/index.html

Information on Women's History Month - March

Video, Music and Animation Sites

For you to use for building your video project

Photos

Videos

http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp

Large collection of free photographs for non-commercial use

http://www.extremestorms.com/library.htm

Extreme Storms Footage Library - will have to convert from Windows Media format (see teacher)

http://www.worldphotos.com/

Lots of world photos, be careful with explicit images of violence, etc.

http://creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons is a web site dedicated to offering music, photos and video available for public use. The creator chooses the level of "sharing", not copyright laws. Not sure if it is useful, but has some great "commercials" in it.

http://freestockphotos.com

Free photography for individual or commercial use

http://www.pics4learning.com

Great photo collection

Sounds and Music

If you have music that you would like to use, please bring in the ORIGINAL CD and case. You may only use 29 seconds of the piece (copyright.) Ms. Cook must approve before using.

Animations

www.freeplaymusic.com

Lots of music set to a certain length, great for short clips

http://www.livinggraphics.com/lg/animations.asp

1000's of animations

http://www.frogstar.com/wav/

Great collection of WAV files, music sound clips, etc. Save As:

Link to site with Video examples for class use -

(link only works inside the Jepson network, while at school computers)

Links for Research on Teen Topics

www.plannedparenthood.org

www.teen-matters.com/home.htm

www.teenlink.umn.edu

www.bullying.org - www.stopbullyingnow.com - Facts on bullying

Digital Photography

Below are web sites to help you use a camera better, project ideas and samples of movies and camera shots.

http://www.apple.com/education/dv/
Sample movies and camera shots

http://www.discovery.com/ads/sony/school/index.html
Article about using digital video in schools

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~cumulus/digcam.htm#Uses

Ideas of things you can do with a digital camera

http://www.saycheese.com/
Simple steps to shooting digital photos

http://www.howstuffworks.com/digital-camera.htm

How a digital camera works

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/

Kodak Digital Learning Center - lots of information including projects

1001 Ways to use a digital camera in the classroom

http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ucfcasio/qvuses.htm

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/howto/Tips.asp?Langue_ID=7&action=1

Video Vocabulary - check your knowledge!

http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/TechHelp/VideoHelp/VideoGuide.html

Project Based Learning Multi-Media web site (some of this information is presented in your "textbook"

Taking Better Digital Photographs - HP's site

http://h30015.www3.hp.com/hp_dpc/home/home.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/digitalphotography/getstarted/default.asp

Microsoft's page on using Digital Cameras - Basics and purchases

http://www.watertown.k12.ma.us/dept/prodev/cameras/cameras.html
Resources for curricular uses of cameras in the classroom

http://www.cybercollege.org/tvp_ind.htm

Television Production A Comprehensive On-line Cybertext in Studio and Field Production by Ron Whittaker, Ph.D.

http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000019/INTRODUCTION.html

Apple's Web Site on Videography for Educators - specifics for planning, shooting film and editing techniques

Knowing what makes a good web page, finding appropriate graphics and sounds and basic designing are  essential to a GREAT site.

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Web Evaluation

Graphic web sites for "harvesting"

Rubric for a Internet Lesson From ED's Oasis

http://www.iconbazaar.com

Ten C's for Evaluating Internet Resources

http://www.sfsu.edu/~jtolson/textures/textures.htm

Julianne's Backgrounds

Cyberbee's CyberGuide Ratings for Web Site Design

Barry's Clip Art http://www.barrysclipart.com/

HTML Code Lessons

http://www.backgroundsarchive.com/

Copyright information

http://www.coolarchive.com/

Andy's Java Script Tutorials - Broken down into simple steps

http://www.animationfactory.com/index.shtml Animation Factory

Use this web site for getting basic information about designing a student site. Read all six sections.

http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/srutledg/goodsites8.html

http://www.freeimages.co.uk/

Over 2500 free images, wallpapers and slides

http://www.elmhurst.edu/library/workshoppages/backgrounds.html

Lots of backgrounds that are light colored and good for web pages

http://www.classroomclipart.com/

Lots of free clipart

www.awesomeclipartforkids.com

http://school.discovery.com/clipart

Links to Examples of School and Student Pages

Below are examples of specific school oriented web pages. They can give you some great ideas for creating your own page.

http://www.georgetown.txed.net/benold/teacherwebs.htm

Great examples of teacher web pages

http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/pusdbhms/bulletin/octbull.htm

Whole newsletter online

http://lv.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/lv/alta/hp.nsf/HomePages/donulrich

 Principal's page

http://www.nhusd.k12.ca.us/ams/ssc.htm

 Site Council

http://www.acms.nvusd.k12.ca.us/about.htm

 About a school

http://www.acms.nvusd.k12.ca.us/staff.htm

 Staff with photos and links

http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/pusdbhms/aboutschool.html

 About the school

http://www.csd.k12.ca.us/cucamonga/html/principal.html

 Principal page

http://www.csd.k12.ca.us/cucamonga/html/teachers.html

 Teacher cover page

http://www.csd.k12.ca.us/cucamonga/html/news.html

 News (would split this up)

http://griffiths.dusd.net/StaffRoster.html

 Teacher pages/links to

http://griffiths.dusd.net/principals%20message.html

 Principal message - general

http://griffiths.dusd.net/Administrative%20Page.html

Admin. photo page/table

http://griffiths.dusd.net/expectations.html

 School expectations

http://www.svusd.k12.ca.us/schools/La_Paz/

 Flash opening for main page

http://www.svusd.k12.ca.us/schools/La_Paz/survey.html

 Online surveys for parents

http://www.mvschools.org/ms/

 Slide show opener

http://www.moreland.k12.ca.us/Rogers/principal_notes/principal.htm

 Principal notes

http://www.moreland.k12.ca.us/Rogers/handbook.htm

 School handbook - uses menu bar at top

http://www.moreland.k12.ca.us/Rogers/philosophy.htm

 Philosophy - background stays put - menu bar at top

http://www.kcusd.org/~slorenzo/slmswelcome2.html

 Principal's welcome to web site

http://www.kcusd.org/~slorenzo/slmswelcome4.html

 Parent page with info/ check set up of page

http://www.kcusd.org/~slorenzo/slmswelcome5.html

Staff Lounge with info for staff

http://www.kcusd.org/~slorenzo/nopage.html

Teacher without a web page

http://www.kcusd.org/%7ecbarnes/

PE teacher web page

http://www.kcusd.org/~pjudd/

Sample of a type of teacher template

http://www.moraga.k12.ca.us/JM/StudentZone/InTheZone.html

Sample of a student/ school web site - The Zone