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Elementary and Middle School
Adobe
Digital Kids Club
A wonderful site for teachers, students, and
parents, that provides beginner information, lessons and activities, and
training and tutorials.
The Digital Kids Club also features a gallery for
students to share their work.
How Stuff
Works-Digital Cameras
Introduces the basics of digital cameras;
includes information on resolution, storage, capturing color, and exposure and
focus.
How to Buy a Digital Camera
Presents an introduction to the basic features of
digital cameras, including exposure controls and user controls. A good
beginning site.
Kids' Vid
An outstanding resource
for video production and kids. Kids' Vid offers an online
scripting/storyboarding interactive tool, and general tips for scripting,
filming, and editing. The unique, online
storyboarding tool allows teams to create storyboards which can be edited and
viewed anywhere/anytime students have Internet access.
Movie-Making
for Kids
Online kids' introduction to movie making. Takes children
through basics including movie categories, key elements in a movie, writing a
script, editing, and music and sound effects.
PBS Kids' Make
a Short
A great example of a
digital short created by children.
The Video Guide!
Project-Based Learning with Multimedia
The Video Guide is a resource for both students and
teachers to use as they explore the world of video. A detailed list of links,
advice sheets, and glossaries.
High School
Center for Digital
Storytelling
The Center for
Digital Storytelling is a non-profit training, project development, and
research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to
tell meaningful stories from their lives.
Getting Started with
Digital Video
A list of
resources for planning, editing, filming, and other information for both
students and teachers.
Reel
Action: Making Media
A thorough collection of links for aspiring
filmmakers.
A Short Course in Digital Video
Information on the functions and features of DV hardware
and software from shortcourses.com.
Windows Movie Maker 2: How-To
for Beginners
"How-to"
info from Microsoft on their Movie Maker software, an editing program with
basic functionality that comes bundled with Windows XP.
Windows Movie Maker 2
Online Tutorial
For XP
computers only, but a free movie tool that works just as easy as iMovie and has
more special effects.
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