Copyright Links
Multimedia educator's guide to keeping up with the latest compliance issues. More to come...
www.techlearning.com - Great explanations of what is fair use and usable in the classroom.
Kitzu.com - "Kitz" collection of free, educational, copyright-friendly media resources.
Copyright Chart - a .pdf poster from Hall Davidson's site for you to hang up in your classroom.
Music Creators
of Canada
Canadian organization of musicians that doesn't think it is right for
the industry to sue children for downloading their music.
Copyright
Law of the United States of America
A bunch of legalease about intellectual property rights.
CreativeCommons –
The home page and site for this new way of sharing intellectual property.
Flickr
See how the popular Photo Site is using Creative Commons when posting
photographs.
Berkley Shares
– The music college is giving away free music lesson as part of
a Creative Commons Agreement..
Jamendo.com - Artists allow everyone to download and share their music. It's free, legal and unlimited.
Library of Congress - Prints and Photo Reading Room. A great resource for public domain or unrestricted use material.
Quick Links
El Diamante High School Video
On Air with Ed Hews Podcast
Slick Rock Film Festival
Teacher Tested Sites
Color
Wheel Pro
Creating great graphics is part of what we do. Here
is a great program that allows you to see color theory in action: you
can create harmonious color schemes and preview them on real-world examples.
Avid
and Schools
The editing software company provides easy access
to tools you can use to create a real-world learning environment, including
customizable lesson plans, classroom-tested textbooks, and a place to
share creative teaching methods.
Apple’s
Learning Interchange-Videography for Educators
The Videography for Educators exhibit features tips
and techniques to assist in the creation of quality video products.
PBS TeacherSource
3000+ free lesson plans and activities.
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.
Teachnology Website
TeAchnology.com offers teachers FREE access to 27,000+
lesson plans, 6,350+ printable worksheets, rubrics, educational games,
teaching tips, advice, education news, teacher downloads, web quests,
256,000+ reviewed web sites and teacher tools for creating exciting classroom
instruction. Oh yeah, it's good.
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.
Video Teachers.org
An up and coming resource for all things in video
education. This is an off shoot of the Central Valley Video Instructor's list
serve. Keep checking the site for more new stuff.
Grant-writing Tips for Newbies
Glencoe E-Zine article discusses how to begin writing for grant money.
Podcasting is Good
Creative
Cow Tutorial
This is the second of three flash
movies by someone who knows how to podcast. This is for audio, but applies
to video.
Creating
a Podcast
Another great resource for how to
write and RSS feed.
Apple's
Tech Specs for Podcasting
This site features
all the requirements you RSS feed needs to have to be featured on iTunes.
There is also a sample XML page for you to copy and change for your podcast.
Feed Validator.com
Use this site to find any errors in your RSS feed before
you post to iTunes.
Byte
Converter
Inside the enclosure tag of your
XML page, you have to write the size of your podcast file in bytes. Use
this page to do the math.
iSquint
A great and much faster mac program to convert
your videos to iPod worthy size.
