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12/4 - "Makin' Movies" - Digital Storytelling:

Joe Brennan's Picks ▪ Teacher Resources ▪ Ideas and Examples ▪ MovieMaker Tutorials  ▪ Story Board Templates

PowerPoint - Level 1 & Level 2

Tutorials ▪ Good Design ▪ Classroom ideas ▪ Game Show Templates

Tutorials & How-To's

• Powerpoint Tutorials, Webcasts & Podcasts (from Microsoft)

• GCF: Tutorial (Great tutorial on simple to complex topics)

• Tips & tricks

• Online Tutorial covering content from Level 1 workshop

• Internet4Classrooms: step-by-step tutorials

• Brainy Betty's tips & tricks

• University of Pennsylvania tutorial

• Tutorial from Florida Gulf Coast Univ.

• PowerPoint in the Classroom

• 123PPT.com's PowerPoint® Tips and Tricks

• Sending a Word document to PowerPoint

Good Design

• Checklist for creating a good PowerPoint

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• Design Tips

• Bad PowerPoint Presentations

Creative Uses in the Classroom & Downloadable Presentations from other professionals

• PowerPoint Lesson Plans (categorized by subject area)

• Internet4Classrooms (Scroll down to Resources on Web section for ideas and links)

• Ideas from Classroom 2.0

• Maximizing PowerPoint

• SlideShare.net (never create a powerpoint from scratch!)

• Chemistry Lessons

• Multi-Media Story-telling

• Internet4Classrooms: Many different game templates, teacher-created slideshows, and more; scroll to PPT slideshows available for download section

• PowerPoint Sample Rubric

• Sample Uses for Teachers

• More Easy Ideas for Teachers

• Science PowerPoints to Download

• TechTrekers PowerPoint Ideas (scroll down for downloads and links)

• Using PowerPoint in the Classroom

Game Show Templates

• Jeopardy Game

• Game-show templates (Jeopardy, Millionaire, Password, Smarter than a 5th grader, Wheel of Fortune, Weakest link, etc.)

• Maximizing PowerPoint

• More Game Shows (different selection than above)

• Parade of Games

• Internet4Classrooms

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"Makin' Movies" - Digital Storytelling:

Joe Brennan's Picks ▪ Teacher Resources ▪ Ideas and Examples ▪ MovieMaker Tutorials  ▪ Story Board Templates

(Note:  ** indicates recommended sites to get you started)

Joe Brennan's Picks

• Joe's Blogs on Discover Education

• Joe's ADE Page

• American Film Institute's Screen Nation

• ** AFI's 21st Century Educators' Handbook (on United Streaming website)

• ** Lights, Camera, Education! From AFI (Great starting place for teachers)

• ** Discover Education United Streaming

• FoxHiLites.com

• Great Minds Foundation

Teacher Resources

• Making a Case for Digital Storytelling

• ** Beyond Words- New Media Literacy and Fluency (article to explain educational purpose and advantages of digital storytelling)

• Jakes Online: site dedicated to using the tools of the digital age to advance pedagogical practice and student learning

• What do kids learn with digital storytelling? 

• ** Using technology to tell stories

• **50 ways to tell a story (uncomplicated, how-to site to get you started)

• Cookbook for digital storytelling (how-to site)

• Video in the classroom from Needleworks

• Best ways for students to create videos using someone else's content

• Resources from Center for Digital Storytelling 

• Key Digital Storytelling Sites from TechHead

• Digitales – The art of telling digital stories

• Instructions and resources from Jason Ohler

Classroom Ideas and Examples

• Educational uses of Digital Storytelling (has many examples by subject, in-depth info on storyboarding, rubrics and peer review info)

• Niles Township – digital stories from students and teachers

• Web English Teacher 

• Storytelling across the curriculum  (math, science and social studies)

• Story Arts:  Lesson plans and activities 

• Digital Kids Club from Adobe lots of ideas to borrow and adapt

• Lesson Planet: 156 ideas for digital storytelling 

• Poetry through digital storytelling 

• Hotlist on Digital Storytelling

• Information and examples from Arkansas teacher

• HistoryTech

• Great Samples and examples of student-created movies 

• Controversial Topics as the subject 

• Classroom examples

Movie Maker Tutorials

• Download Movie Maker on your home pc - it's free!

• http://www.mightycoach.com/articles/mm2/index.html

• http://www.updatexp.com/windows-movie-maker-videos.html

• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/
  moviemaker/default.mspx

• http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/moviemaker2

• Printable Manual #1

• Printable manual #2

• Printable manual #3

• Printable manual #4

• Printable manual #5

• Beginner's Guide

• http://www.underwaterphotography.com/video-editing/windows-movie-maker/Software/
  windowsmoviemaker.asp

Story Board Templates

• http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/units/
  movies/storyboard.html

• http://www.cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/MENTZER/
  webquest/storyboard.htm

• http://www.polaris.edu/iltli/materials/storybd_soarweb.pdf

• http://www.freefilmsoftware.co.uk/

• http://www.jakesonline.org/storyboard_side.pdf

• http://www.jakesonline.org/storyboard_top.pdf

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