Digital Compositions Basic Elements
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| • Access to personal computers with Windows XP
operating system (and therefore, MovieMaker software) • Digital cameras • Access to the World Wide Web • Microphones • Computer Video Projector (for presenting final projects) • DVD burner (for creating movies to take home) • Software for streaming video through Web (i.e, Quicktime) -- if you consider publishing your movies on a school website (otherwise, not really necessary) • Scanner |
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| Web Sites that Allow Legal Access to Images, Music, etc… | |
| • Creative Commons is this site provides links to a host of sites and organizations that
have agreed to some leniency of copyright protection. • Discovery School is this site is geared towards educators and students, with free material that is intended to be used for school projects. • The Free Site is this site is loaded with free web-based things, and this link connects you to their clip art index. • Free Kids Music -- this site has children's music available from artists who have agreed to share their work for free for children and educators. |
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| Students and Publication | |
| Student Presentations and Copyrights | |
| General Technology Resources | |
| Red Clay Web 2.0 Literacy Resources Home | |
Helpful Web 2.0 Websites: Useful links and explanations of useful resources for using Web 2.0 tools in your classrooms. |
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| Creative Commons Search Engine--Get legal media to use. | |
| Area 3 Writing Project—Technology Workshops | |
| PowerPoint Help | |
| PowerPoint Homepage | |
| Add narration to a presentation: Narration can enhance Web-based or self-running presentations. You can also use narration to archive a meeting, so that presenters or absentees can review the presentation later and hear any comments made during the presentation. | |
| Add and play sounds in a PowerPoint presentation | |
| Embedded and linked sound files in a presentation | |
| My sound doesn’t play | |
| Copy a presentation to a CD, network, or local disk drive | |
| "How to make PowerPoint files small" | |
| SlideShare SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations on the web. And it's free. For example, you create a PowerPoint for your presentation at a conference, then you use Slide Share to share this with conference participants to view later. | |
| How to Add Voice Over to your Powerpoint Presentations | |
| Instructions for Voice-over Narration in PowerPoint using Audacity | |
| Audacity Help | |
| Audacity The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor | |
Audacity Rules--Tutorial Basics |
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| Audacity: How to basic Podcast Recording This is a cool demonstration that gives you the basics and shows you how to include a narration with a musical background. So you can create introductions, etc… | |
How to mix with Audacity—quick tutorial This is a good guide to mixing different parts of songs (or audio tracks) together. |
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| Voice Over Tips | |
| Legal Music--Creative Common Sources | |
| Legal Music For Videos: Creative Commons | |
| Creative Commons Search Engine | |
Jamendo: Music to share—Royalty-free production music; background music for businesses |
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| Free Music Archive: Creative Commons—share, remix, reuse | |
ccMixter: Is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. |
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| How to Share Your Podcasts | |
| How to Podcast from PowerPoint: Using Slideshare | |
| PowerPoint in the Classroom | |
| PowerPoint Examples from Real People | |
| Student Multimedia Presentations--PowerPoint | |
| Upload Very Large PowerPoint File to SlideShare | |
| A PowerPoint on VoiceThread created first in PowerPoint | |
| Upload Your PowerPoint to Your Website | |
| PowerPoint to Video | |
| Copy a presentation to a CD, network, or local disk drive | |
| Podcasting and Education | |
The Education Podcast Network This site contains hundreds of podcast examples for all disciplines and a good listing of suggestions and best practices. |
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Mac-GarageBand Podcasting Tutorial—Step by Step |
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| Digital Photos | |
| Jake’s Online Photo Story Tutorial: Great Resource for Tutorials. This web site has great indepth video tutorials. | |
| Flickr Storm Great source of photos. Searches Flickr and displays the photos in a very handy manner. Also has the option of searching using Creative Commons Licenses. Great for when you need to be sure you have the right to use the photo. | |
| Downloading Existing Video | |
Applian Technologies--Freecorder Download Videos, Convert, and More "What I have posted below is a link to the download of the software I use to record all the youtube videos and music for my videos. I can explain to the class how to download and how to use it. This will help them tremendously in making our media presentations." from a student |
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| Creating Video | |
SpinXpress: Making Great Videos--with Get Media Get Media—enables independent producers to pull from a wide range of creative content available under Creative commons licenses. To help you find exactly what you are looking for you can select the exact license, media type and source. |
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| MovieMaker Help | |
| How to Download Videos to your computer (Using Real Player) | |
| Dreamweaver Tutorials | |
| Dreamweaver Tutorial 2 | |
| Dreamweaver Tutorial 6-Formatting Links | |
Dreamweaver Tutorial-Animating Advanced Rollover Buttons in Flash CS3 |
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| Google Sites | |
| How to Edit and Add Media to Google Site #2 | |
How to Share Your Google Site #4 This tutorial helps you create a Google Site in which Multiple Users can collaborate online: as on a Wiki. |
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| Setting Up A You Tube Channel | |
| You Tube Channel Examples | |
| National Writing Project You Tube Channel | |
| Playlists include "Digital Is," "Local Sites at Work," and "In the Classroom." |
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| CBC SLC You Tube Channel | |
| CBC SLC Website | |