Web+Resources

== =Audio Editing | Digital Storytelling Online Tools | Digital Storytelling Resources | Image Editing | Information Literacy= =Research Resources | Video Editing | Visual Mapping= = =

Audio Editing
Audacity “Free open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds”

AudioEditor (Creaza)

FreePlay

SoundBible.com Free Sound Clips, Sound Bites, and Sound Effects

Soundzabound Music, audio themes and sound effects for grades K-12 and universities.

Digital Storytelling Online Tools
Animoto Contains image editing, video clips, music, and text.

Creaza Contains online mind mapping (Mindomo), online comics(Cartoonist), online video editing (MovieEditor), and online audio editing (AudioEditor) tools.

VoiceThread Holds images, documents, and videos, and allows people to leave comments via text, audio file, or video via webcam.

Digital Storytelling Resources
Digital Storytelling: How to Create a Digital Story Contains step-by-step instructions and website links to guide digital storytelling creators.

Digital Storytelling: A Best Practices Website for School Library Media Specialists Contains research on digital storytelling in education, grants, technology, evaluation, and publicizing projects. Also contains information to assist school library media specialists in using digital storytelling programs.

Digitales Contains information on books, articles, research, evaluation tips, tools, and other resources for teaching and creating digital stories.

Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling Digit a l storytelling website. Cont a ins resources, tools, a rticles, rubrics, etc.

A Media Specialist’s Guide to the Internet - 60 Sites for Digital Storytelling Tools and Information This webpage contains links to related sites such as digital storytelling information and online tools.

Image Editing
Pixlr Different levels for different abilities and interests (playful, efficient, advanced).

Information Literacy
EdTechTeacher - Research & Writing in the Digital Age Links to help students effectively use technology to conduct resea rch a nd write p a pers. Includes in for m a tion on copyright, f a ir use, cre a tive commons licenses, a ltern a te se a rch terms, a nd mind m a pping

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources a nd lesson pl a ns on copyright a nd intellectu a l property

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Information Literacy This webpage contains links to information literacy resources. Especially good for media specialists.

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Literacy in the Digital AgeThis webpage contains links to web site evaluation, online citation creators, rubrics, and other digital literacy resources. Especially good for media specialists.

Research Resources
KidsClick! Owned by and run by the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University. Advanced search options include searching by all fields, subjects, titles, or descriptions; limiting results by reading level and/or amount of pictures; searching for pictures, sound, and video; searching by Dewey Decimal section, and searching by URL (website address).

Surfnetkids: Games, Hobbies, & Sports

This webpage lists various hobbies such as bird watching, animals, gardening, genealogy, cooking, juggling, knitting, magic tricks, and stamp collecting. Each link includes an annotated list of links related to that topic. The site clearly notes original publication and modification dates. (For example, “Juggling” was originally written in 1997 and updated in 2007.)

Video Editing
Animoto Contains image editing, video clips, music, and text.

MovieEditor (Creaza)

Visual Mapping
Inspiration Software, Inc. Contains features for mind mapping, graphic organizers, webbing, concept mapping, plots and graphs, sequence charts, storyboards, compare/contrast, fact/fiction, and other activities relevant to classroom and media center use. Accessible features include talking interface text to speech, word retrieval tools, and symbols and pictures.

Mindomo (Creaza)