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Finding images & media on the Web

AP Images (in POWER Library database) - downloadable photos & audio clips
Discovery Education  - downloadable photos, video clips, & audio clips [user: Windows login; pwd: discover]
Internet Archive - downloadable images, audio, and video files
Creative Commons Search - search for copyright-friendly images & media files across several databases
National Archives Photography Index

NY Public Library Digital Gallery
Flickr - pay attention to licensing icons on image
Wikimedia Commons
FreePik.com
CompFight.com

Microsoft Office Online - clip art, moving images, templates
Digital Librarian: Art Images
Granddaddy of all Images & Media sites     [Thanks to Joyce Valenza & friends!]


Finding music & sound on the Web

http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/Copyright-friendly+music+and+sound
http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/Sound+effects
Movie sound bites  (blocked in school)
 Movie sound bites 2
Free Sound Effects


Finding videos on the web

Teacher Tube
Discovery Education
EduTube
Streaming Video Wiki
Videezy.com


Converting audio & video files
Savemedia.com  (use for converting YouTube videos into .wmv files)
Zamzar  (need free gmail account to download converted file)
WinFF  (free converter - on all Library computers; can download @ home too)


Clipping video and audio files

Windows Live Movie Maker
Windows Movie Maker 2.6
Audacity

COMPARISON CHART - POWERPOINT, PHOTOSTORY, OR MOVIEMAKER

PowerPoint tutorials:

PowerPoint for Beginners - slide show of how to make slide show!
12 Tips for Creating Better Presentations - from MS Office site



Search PowerPoint examples:

www.slideshare.net

Great PowerPoint w/Tips
'Death by PowerPoint' slideshow


Best Presentation of 2010!

http://www.slideshare.net/mrcoryjim/smoke-the-convenient-truth-5602255

PowerPoint on Trends in PowerPoints (for 2011!)
http://www.slideshare.net/rashmi/slideshare-zeitgeist-2011/


Alternatives to PowerPoint:

VoiceThread
SlideCasts
Animoto
PhotoStory  (program on all West Library computers)
PhotoStory Text Blocks - use for typing text blocks in between pictures