15 Multimedia Resource Guide by John Moritz

 

Clip Art Resources

Name of site:  #1 Free Clip Art

URL:  http://www.1clipart.com/

Intended Audience:  Adults (due to other clip art links and advertisements)

Description:  Graphics categorized by subject (space, animals, etc.)  All free.

 

 

Name of site: Brainy Betty

URL: http://www.brainybetty.com/powerpoint.htm

Intended Audience: Teachers/PowerPoint users

Description:  This site offers many free PowerPoint templates, plus a lot of other free (donations accepted) graphics, backgrounds and tutorials

 

 

Name of site: Microsoft Clip Art Gallery

URL: http://dgl.microsoft.com/mgo1en/eula.asp

Intended Audience: any

Description: This database has a lot of great clip art.  You can search by topic, and determine what kind of results you want by determining photos, clip art, sound, and movies.

 

 

Name of site:  Free Buttons

URL:http://www.freebuttons.com/

Intended Audience: any

Description:  Free buttons available, and links to other free button sites.

 

Help References and Tutorials

Name of site: Inspiration Software Inc.

URL: http://www.inspiration.com/home.cfm

Intended Audience: Teachers/Inspiration users

Description: This site gives many examples of how teachers can use inspiration in each of the content areas.  Many good ideas!

 

 

Name of site:  Site Point

URL: http://www.webmasterbase.com/tutorials/Dreamweaver/

Intended Audience: Primarily Business but anyone learning Dream Weaver

Description:  This site offers a menu of specific items to learn about in Dream weaver, site hosts many animations and clear lesson for learning.

 

 

Name of site:  Microsoft Education

URL: http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=O2kTutorial

Intended Audience: Any

Description:  Offers many downloads for help and software tutorials.

 

Name of site:  Adobe Acrobat

URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

Intended Audience: Any

Description:  This is the Adobe site where you can link to get the current downloads for Adobe reader, plus a lot of support and information about the product.

 

 

Name of site:  PowerPoint in the Classroom

URL: http://www.actden.com/pp/

Intended Audience:  Teachers

Description:  This site gives step by step directions on creating a PowerPoint.  Very nice and student friendly layout.

 

 

Name of site:  Dr. Christie's EDT 546 on line readings

URL: http://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/546/Readings.html

Intended Audience:  Teachers

Description:  Online readings consist of information on good techniques for creating webpages and multimedia presentations

 

 

Name of site:  Quicktime Video Download

URL: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

Intended Audience: Any

Description:  Here is the link for downloading the Quicktime player and information about it.

 

Cool Examples Using Multimedia

Name of site: Discovery Animal Cams

URL: http://dsc.discovery.com/cams/cams.html

Intended Audience:  Any

Description:  This site is a launch page created by Discovery, with many different links to streaming video of different animals.

 

 

Name of site:  Nature Animal Cams

URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/webcams/

Intended Audience: Any

Description:  Like the Discovery site, this is another launch page of streaming video cams of different animals.

 

 

Name of site:  iMovie Gallery

URL: http://www.apple.com/imovie/gallery/

Intended Audience:  Any

Description:  This site has many links to great examples of using iMovies.

 

 

Name of site:  Tech Learning

URL: http://www.techlearning.com/content/about/tl_current.html

Intended Audience:  Teachers

Description: This site is an online magazine on using technology.