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Websites and Podcasts Worth Your Time
iTunes has lots of great resources:

Final Cut Tips
Tucker MacDonald offers many great tips on how to use the editing program in this podcast.

The Treatment and the iTunes Podcast
Elvis Mitchell does an amazing job of interviewing well known and not so well known members of the filmmaking community.

Final Cut Help - Absolute Training for Final Cut Studio
Richard Harrington has great tips on how to use the program.

 

Quick Links

Download the Media from the CD Handout (478MB) It's huge=long download.
.pdf version of my presentation
Del.icio.us site for my presentation
Don't forget to check out the links page above.

El Diamante High School Video
On Air with Ed Hews Podcast
Slick Rock Film Festival

Great Sites to Get You Started

My Classroom Del.icio.us Site
There are tons of resources here that are tagged to help you narrow your search.
Apple Education
Download Apple's "Movie Making Curriculum Guide” written by Ross Kallen and Marco Torres. You will have to fill out a form, but it is worth it.
SFETT.com
Marco Torres' film festival site. Amazing kids, amazing videos.
Media Awareness Network
Media literacy is the ability to sift through and analyze the messages that inform, entertain and sell to us every day. This Canadian website helps you to get students to watch and listen for what is really being said or not said in television.
The Prelinger Archives
A collection of over 48,000 historical films and clips. A great resource for film students.
School House Video
Take a tour Public Television's KOCE-TV great website devoted to student video production. This site is home to great ideas, projects, and downloads.
The Site Wizard
This site makes creating a feedback form very easy. Just plug in your information and....POW! You will have a form and .php file especially made for you. Sweet!
Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics
Check out this page from Participate.com to teach your students to be honest and fair in reporting the news.
Hall Davidson's Link Page
This page is filled with useful links. You could spend days.
Find sounds.com
A great website for sound effects. As one of my students put it..."it's google for sound effects".
Mr. Wilson's Links
A high school teacher in Fresno has gathered up some great links for teaching and buying video stuff.
Valley Video Instructors Ning Site
We are a group of 100+ video teachers from CA's Central Valley. Join us.

RSS Subsciptions Worth Your Time

RSS Made Simple
Excellent starter video if you are not on board with RSS feeds. Careful, they are addictive.

Joe Brennan's Blog at Discovery Education
This guy knows how to make movie makin' easy.

Hall Davidson's Blog at Discovery Education
This former video Guru still offers up great tips on video making and Google Applications.

Cameras that I like (today):

The Shoot and Share
Pure Digital Flip Video Cameras

HD?
Canon HV 20 (HDV) from B&H for $650

Stick with mini-DV Tape (at least this month)
Canon ZR800 Mini DV from B&H under $200
Panasonic PV-GS500 - Great camera around $600

.Mac (Apple Computer, Inc.)
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