@Heyjudeonline twittered this link. http://vimeo.com/2696386
This is an 8 minute video about the history of the internet from pre 1957 to 2009. It has all the key elements APRANET, DARPA, and more. This is an excellent teaching resource for teachers of IT or ITGS. Its well narrated, high quality animation with good detail.
A good find and [...]
http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html
I have to say this is a GREAT tool , I spotted it reading a post from Larry [Excellent find].
Its simple, clean and quick (given you have a good connection) . The site allows you to make flash animations with backgrounds, different charactors, dialog bubbles, background music and multiple scenes. The process is [...]
This is based on a post by Tony Karrer – http://elearningtech.blogspot.com
Tony has put together a collection of sites for images, sounds, animation and other resources for media. Brilliant effort!
Photos
www.fotolia.com
www.photos.com
www.istockphoto.com
www.shutterstock.com
www.liquidlibrary.com
www.photospin.com
Stock xchng
bigFoto
FreePhoto
Wikimedia Commons
Free Images
Free Digital Photos
Free Foto
Artzooks
Dreamstime
iStockphoto.com
photosphere.com
Pics4Learning
Pixelperfect Digital
stock.xchng
Freefoto.com
Freeimages.co.uk
Fotosearch Stock Photography
Clip media
www.clipart.com
JAC Clipart Archive
Absolutely Free Clipart
Animation factory
Classroom clipart
Clipart connection
Discovery School Clip Art Gallery
Animation
Animation Online
Animine
Icons
IconBazaar
Icongalore
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http://xtimeline.com
This is an easy to use tool, which allows you to develop a timeline which you can either link to (This is a quick example I put together using the BBC in pictures history of transistors and some other bits from Wikipedia. You can either upload images or link to them).
http://www.xtimeline.com/technology/history-of-transistors
or embed as an iframe
OurStory [...]
This is a favourite of mine. Maya is a 3D development environment, its used by companies the world over including Weta Digital.
Autodesk put out a personal learning edition (PLE) of the product. It carries a watermark on the image so you can’s use it commercially but otherwise it is a fully featured product.
The download [...]
This is a youtube video clip of online communities. This is a interesting starting point for discussion on onlkine communities, groups, facebook and alike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGfNSA3QmWg
More from XKCD – http://xkcd.com
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I have started to upload some of my training videos to TeacherTube.
The first set is a pair of videos on comic life for windows – this is plasq latest release and is a great product
Here are the URLS
Comic Life for windows pt 1
Comic Life for windows pt 2
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fedorigami.edublogs.org%2F2007%2F10%2F30%2Fvideo-tutorials-comic-life%2F’;
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http://www.findsounds.com
This a search engine for sounds and sound effects. A useful tool for podcasts, vodcast, animation, stopmotion, video, games and beyond.
Another one from Ewen.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fedorigami.edublogs.org%2F2007%2F10%2F29%2Ffindsounds%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘FindSounds’;
addthis_pub = ”;
Animation and claymation are tools I use all the time when teaching students about film, lighting and camera angles and video concepts.
Until now I have used movie maker as a tool to develop my clips. but it has limitations with the frame rate (you can only dial it down to image duration of 0.125 sec [...]
