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Copyright Free Media edited Sources of Copyright-Friendly Media for your projects These are greate places to look for image…

Sources of Copyright-Friendly Media for your projects
These are greate places to look for images, music and sounds for your WebQuests, Powerpoint presentations and video productions. Most require only that attribution be given to the originator. Check each site for conditions of use.
Sources of Copyright-Friendly Media-PHOTOSSources of Copyright-Friendly Media-PHOTOSPHOTOS
Flickr Creative Commons
Simple Flickr Search
Multicolr Search (find CC pictures with particular colors!)
Pics4Learning
Photo Laboratory
Wikimedia Commons
MorgueFile
American Memory
Free Photos Bank
Digital Saskatchewan (and it goes well beyond SK)
Free Foto
Stock Vault
Flickr Stock Repository
ArtServe (art and architecture from the Mediterrean and Japan)
PBase World Gallery (amateur photos organized by country)
GeekPhilosopher
NASA Images **NEW**
Public Domain Images **NEW**
Sources of Copyright-Friendly Media-CLIP ARTSources of Copyright-Friendly Media-CLIP ARTCLIP ART
Absolutely All Free Clip Art
Discovery School's Free Clip Art
Kaboose
CoolArchives
Awesome Clip Art for Educators
GoGraph
Open Clip Art
School Clip Art
Sources of Copyright-Friendly Media-BACKGROUND TEXTURESSources of Copyright-Friendly Media-BACKGROUND TEXTURESBACKGROUND TEXTURES
Squidfingers Background Patterns
Absolute Background Textures Archive
CG Textures
Texture Warehouse
Sources of Copyright-Friendly Media-MUSICSources of Copyright-Friendly Media-MUSICMUSIC
FreePlayMusic
Magnatune
Internet Archive: Live Music Archive
Open Source Audio
Podsafe Audio
Cinema Volta: Daily Ambience
PDX Bands
Ruccas.org
Incompetech and FreePD - Music by Kevin MacLeod
Moby Gratis - Film music by Moby
Sources of Copyright-Friendly Media-SOUND EFFECTSSources of Copyright-Friendly Media-SOUND EFFECTSSOUND EFFECTS
Sound Effects: The Freesound Project
Absolute Sound Effects Archive
Soungle

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Storyboarding your Class Video Projects
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Amazing Digital Storytelling site
http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/
Story PlanningStory Planning
[This information comes directly form the Atomic Learning website.]
The most important phase of production is pre-production.
Some people don’t want to hear that truth. Maybe you’re one of them! If you heed that advice, however, you’ll be following in the footsteps of all the successful television and motion picture directors in the business. Unless you’re taping a “news as it happens” story, you should have a very good idea of what your finished program will look like before you take out the camera.
What’s it for?
People will be curious about why you’re making a video, especially if you ask them to participate in it! You should be able to answer the question, “so what’s it for?” Remember, “just for fun” is a fine reason! If you’ve got more specific goals (and you probably will) you should list them. Consider your program from the point of view of your intended audience. What do you want them to gain from watching your program? What should they learn, feel, think, understand, or do?
Who’s going to watch it?
You need to have an idea of who your audience will be. Will they be high school students, senior citizens, parent groups, local citizens, kindergarteners, medical doctors, college students, family members or any other group you can identify? It’s important to know the general level of sophistication of your audience and their level of prior knowledge about the subject matter.
When I taught in a high school, my video journalism class produced a magazine style program of short feature stories about our school and the community. It was shown on the local cable access station, which means our audience included anyone in the local area with cable TV. Information my students took for granted wasn’t necessarily common knowledge in the community. I had to remind them that non-students might not know what DECA stands for (Distributive Education Clubs of America) or who Mr. Force is (former principal). They needed to explain such things to the audience when they made reference to them in a story.
Now here’s your local forecast
The local forecast is the part of the weather report that we’re most interested in. It affects us directly, but it’s something the network and national cable outfits don’t provide much detail about. Stories about people, places, issues or events in your local school or community don’t get much attention from commercial television either. You won’t find any tapes or DVDs about local interest topics at the video store. But people are interested in these things! There just aren’t enough of them to make it profitable for the pros to cover. That can be where you come in. A local take on a national or global story can also give it local appeal. What’s the situation here? What do local people think about it?
Broadcast and cable television networks do a good job catering to mass audiences. However, they’re not as likely to do a video about the high school marching band’s trip to Pasadena for an appearance in the Rose Bowl Parade.
That sounds doable!
As was mentioned earlier, keep your project small enough to accomplish with the resources you have available. You can always produce a more ambitious sequel! You might want to rethink that story about snowboarding in the Himalayas, unless your location expense budget is a tad larger than mine.
Consider the timelines of your story. That would include the amount of time you have available to spend and the time factors of your story’s subject. You might really want to do a story about the local football team, but if they don’t start practice for two more months it might be impossible to get the action shots you need.
Do your research
When doing a documentary, biography or other non-fiction story, find out as much as you can about your subject during the planning stage. Working in these formats is like doing an in-depth news story. You need to get and provide answers to the who, what, when, where, why, and how questions. The more answers you have before shooting, the better you’ll be able to plan your production. Visit the locations of importance to your story. Talk to the people involved. You may discover a better story lurking about than the one you had originally envisioned.
Call me Ishmael
The classic novel Moby Dick was written as a narrative told by the only survivor of an ill-fated whaling voyage, an interesting fellow known as Ishmael. The Illustrated Classics comic book version takes a bit different approach to the story. You’ll need to decide how you want to approach the stories you tell with video.
Treatments
A treatment is a brief explanation of what your program is all about and how you intend to tell the story. Anyone who reads your treatment should walk away with a clear picture of how your story will unfold. There are usually several ways you can approach the same topic. In the field of news reporting, a treatment is sometimes referred to as a story angle or slant. One treatment decision to make is the story’s format. Within each format there are other choices.
If you’re doing some sort of documentary, will the story be told from the point of view of an observer or a participant? Will there be an off-camera narrator or an on-camera reporter? Will there be a mix of both? If you interview people for the story, will the interviewer be shown asking questions on camera or will you just use the answers in your edited story? If you’re doing a work of fiction, will there be on-camera dialog from your actors? Will the story and dialog be read by an off-camera storyteller as the actors pantomime the action? Will there be a mix of the two, like the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon adventures?
Let’s take the topic of peer pressure. There are many formats to choose from, and each could have multiple approaches. Here are a few quick partial treatment ideas. Actual full treatments would need further explanation. [As you read these treatment ideas, think of your movie's topic and imagine which treatment you would like to employ when you make your movie.]
Informational
Treatment 1
This program will define what peer pressure is and give examples of how teenagers are subjected to it. An off-camera narrator will give a definition of peer pressure and describe various circumstances in which it can occur. Video of teenagers will be used to illustrate each occurrence cited.
Treatment 2
This program will show the many circumstances in which peer pressure can affect the behavior of teenage girls. The story will center on the experiences of five teenage girls who have been identified for the story. Each girl will talk about one form of peer pressure that has affected her behavior in a voice over. Video will show that girl interacting with her peers.
Investigative report
National reports have indicated that there is peer pressure for high school girls not to get good grades or appear too smart. This story will investigate if girls at our school feel this type of pressure, and if so, why?
Positive peer pressure can result from being involved in school activities and volunteer groups. What are the groups at our school that exert positive peer pressure?
Event
A school assembly will be held on November 9th to encourage students to resist peer pressure to become involved in negative activities. This story will take excerpts from the presentation and get the reaction from students and faculty as to the effectiveness of the message.
Historical
Using old photos (school yearbook and others), video (past editions of the school video yearbook), and interviews with people of various ages, this program will examine how peer pressure has always been a part of school life.
Interview
A school guidance counselor talks about peer pressure with a student interviewer. The video will cutaway to shots of kids exhibiting behaviors resulting from peer pressure: smoking, clothing styles, etc.
Fiction: drama
This video will tell the story of Jenny, a school athlete who gets kicked off the team, loses her drivers license, etc. because she gave in to peer pressure to attend a party where there was alcohol being consumed.
Music video
Our original rap song, You Can’t Pressure Me!, will be used as the backing soundtrack. Various kids, teachers, administrators, and others will each sing a line from the song. They will be taped at various locations around the school and community.
Promotional / Motivational
This will be a one-minute public service announcement about the positive influence of the school’s Peer Helper program. It will feature current peer helpers giving one-sentence reasons why they joined, and what they think the organization has done for them and other students.
Instructional
This video will demonstrate techniques middle school students can use to counter negative peer pressure. A series of vignettes will depict students using these techniques in specific situations.

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Ken Burns Effect edited If you're not sure what digital storytelling is, it might help to think of filmaker Ken Burns, who…

If you're not sure what digital storytelling is, it might help to think of filmaker Ken Burns, whose documentaries such as Civil War and Jazz utilized voice narration over still photographs, with some music in the background. Those films were examples of digital storytelling.
Ken Burns on the Ken Burns effect!
Civil War Photo collection on Flickr
Amazing collections of photos available on Flickr! Here is one article of interest related to Flickr content.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/library-of-congress-posts-700-civil-war-photos-to-flickr/67545/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157625520211184/
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/library-of-congress-posts-700-civil-war-photos-to-flickr/67545//r:f
The Library of Congress has released 700 portraits of Americans taken during the Civil War. They were a gift of the Liljenquist Family Collection and most of the people who appear in them are unidentified. In fact, through Flickr commons, the Library is hoping to tap the collective knowledge of the crowd to find out more about the people in these images.
While the photos themselves are beautiful, I think they also highlight a structural change at some of our nation's biggest institutions. The digital age continues to refashion what we want and expect from our cultural preservationists. The vaults at places like the Library of Congress and Smithsonian have long contained far more than could be displayed or appreciated in physical space. Curators cut a narrow path through all that information; they told tell stories. That part of the job hasn't gone away, but now we also want to be able to tell our own stories.
Cultural preservation institutions now have to enable a much broader group of individuals to use their collections, not just professionals and dedicated researchers. And I love that the Library of Congress and other repositories of knowledge are beginning to open their archives to us digital travelers.
In the selection of photos above, we retained the original captions from the Library of Congress archive.

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Taking your picture with Photo Booth
Using Photo Booth and a digital video camera, such as your computer's built-in camera or iSight, you can take a picture of yourself and select several ways to use it.
Photo Booth saves your photos as JPEG files in a folder named Photo Booth, located in your Pictures folder in your home folder. Choose File > Reveal in Finder to see your photo files.
Getting Started
Photo Booth can take both photos and video
Photos can be dragged out of Photo Booth and onto the desktop
Photo Booth can help students document what they've worked on with video or photos
Work that is done on paper can be photographed and inserted into documents - a great option for digitizing things that are easier to do on paper
Although Photo Booth can take video, it is probably better to use iMovie if you are filming multiple scenes that have to be put together into one movie
If you see a student looking at their Mac and laughing or smiling, they're most likely on Photo Booth!
To make your photo more unique, you can apply a special effect when you take it. So that you can take pictures in poor lighting, the screen flashes when Photo Booth takes a picture.
If you are using an iSight or external digital video camera, make sure it's turned on.
To select an effect to apply when you take the picture, click one of the Effects buttons.
Click the effect you want to use. If you want a photo with no effect, click the center effect.
When you're ready to take a picture, click the Shutter button below the image.
Photo Booth counts down for 3 seconds, then flashes the screen and takes the picture.
To view the photo and select how you want to use it, click the thumbnail of the photo at the bottom of the window.
If you click the thumbnail of a photo and you want to take another picture, click the Live Video button below the image.
Where Can I Find More Information?
There's not much more to it - just play around and you'll get the hang of it

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iDVD
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDVD
Great tutorial
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/graphics/idvd/intro.html
Use this to turn your iMovies into a DVD. Students can readily produce impressive DVDs to store and share their digital projects, document their learning, or present a class movie, complete with menus and chapters. And because DVD discs hold so much information, teachers can store several digital media projects on one DVD. Some teachers are beginning to explore using this to create digital portfolios.
To use IDVD
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Create
Automatically create a DVD project in minutes.
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Customize
Build your DVD project any way you want.
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Share
Burn your DVD to watch on a TV, Mac, or PC.
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Create a DVD in minutes.
When you’re eager to share your movies and photo slideshows, you don’t want to spend hours and hours creating a DVD. With iDVD, you don’t have to.
Work some DVD magic.
Take Magic iDVD, for example. Open iDVD and choose Magic iDVD. Then pick a theme and select the movies and photos you want to feature from the iLife Media Browser. Magic iDVD automatically creates a complete project — including main menu, buttons, scene selection menus, and slideshow menus — from start to finish. All you do is burn your DVD.
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Create your DVD.
Use Magic iDVD and themes to create a professional-looking DVD.
View themes gallery
Find out how to use Magic iDVD
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The theme’s the thing.
iDVD also lets you customize your DVDs by starting with themes. Choose from more than 150 Apple-designed themes in widescreen and standard format, each providing a family of coordinated screens including main menu, chapters menu, and extras menu for content like slideshows. Many themes feature attractive animations, and every theme offers drop zones that make it easy to personalize your menus by dragging in photos and movie clips from the iLife Media Browser.
Go from camera to DVD in OneStep.
Have footage in your video camera that you can’t wait to see or share? Create your own “digital dailies” with OneStep DVD. Plug in your camcorder and iDVD opens, offering you the option of creating a OneStep DVD. Click the OneStep button, and iDVD takes all the footage on your camcorder and burns it to DVD. As you burn your disc, iDVD informs you of its progress, providing stage-by-stage indicators with detailed progress bars — even live video thumbnails.
Customize your DVD.
If you’re more the hands-on type, iDVD gives you lots of options for further customizing your DVD.
Make a scene.
Choose an iMovie project as your next iDVD project and you can add a scene selection menu. iDVD automatically imports iMovie chapter markers and uses them to create your scene selections. For each chapter marker on the timeline, iMovie adds a thumbnail of the scene and an editable chapter title (such as “Blowing out the Candles” or “You May Kiss the Bride”).
Edit the chapter title in iMovie and you’ll have less work to do later, as iDVD picks up the chapter titles for its scene selection buttons.
Show off slideshows.
You can also use iDVD to show off your photos. Choose an iDVD theme and add photos one at a time or select albums, custom iPhoto books, slideshows — maybe even a video clip or two — from the iLife Media Browser. Then use the iDVD slideshow editor to rearrange photos, delete slides, or add more images from iPhoto. The slideshow editor includes tools for setting the slide duration, assigning transitions, and adding a soundtrack using songs from your iTunes library.
Add finishing touches.
Once you have all your content in place, iDVD lets you customize your menu screens. Customize drop zones with photos or video clips, choose from a library of buttons, and use built-in alignment guides to make your DVD perfect.
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Customize your DVD.
Customize your DVD even further with iMovie chapter markers and more.
Find out how to set up a custom project
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Burn to share.
Once you finish your DVD masterpiece, only one step remains: burning it. With iDVD, you can burn to single- or double-layer DVDs. And the people you share your DVDs with can watch them anywhere they want: on a standard TV, a widescreen TV, a Mac, or a PC.
With support for a wide variety of DVD media formats — including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R DL, and DVD+R DL — iDVD works with an Apple SuperDrive or any compatible third-party DVD burner to offer you plenty of burning options. The advanced pro encoding technology in iDVD ensures that your DVD is the highest possible quality. Just like a Hollywood DVD, only better (because it’s yours).
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Burn a DVD.
iDVD lets you burn your project to DVD so you can share it with friends and family.
Find out how to burn to DVD

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