News Reels

An excellent site for old news reels that have been digitised  -  http://www.britishpathe.com/

Web Toolboxes: Free Tools

A great resource with “Links to Web sites that features free tools or downloads that can assist teachers to meet the needs of all students” – http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/toolboxfree.html

Google and all that you can do with a Google account

Thanks to a post on Drape’s Takes from Darren Draper in the US – this list is a very comprehensive list of ‘free stuff’ from Google – http://drapestakes.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-every-teacher-should-have-google.html

Creating Mind Maps on-line

Thus is a simple and free web application to let you brainstorm on-line – your mindmap can be emailed, printed, embedded in a blog or a wiki – http://www.bubbl.us/

Another on-line mindmapping tool - http://www.mindomo.com/

iMovie

Ideas for the classroom, the Apple learning Interchange – http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/

Tutorials for iMovie – http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/tutorial/

http://www.design.iastate.edu/LABS/tutorials/imovie/basic.html

Movies in teaching and learning

A wonderful resource from an inspiring educator Marco Torres, Flickschool is a “sharing community, a creative learning space’ for podcasts, movies, multimedia – http://web.mac.com/cinedelagente/iWeb/Site/%5B%20FLICKSCHOOL%20%5D.html

Marco, with his students, has run a film festival for a number of years in San Fernando – http://www.sfett.com/

Marco the Teacher – http://homepage.mac.com/torresu/

Resources for Inspiration

This is a collection of resources for Inspiration mind mapping software:

Ideas for using Inspiration in the Classroom as well as some tutorials  -  http://www.4teachers.org/testimony/inspiration/

Five instructional videos – http://www.sd6.k12.mt.us/techhelp/inspiration/inspiration.html

Storyboards

Adobe has a great site for the ‘Story behind Storyboards’  -

http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/lessons/storyboards.html 

Animacat’s Web site

From Peter MacKay and the Teacher List Animacat’s House Web site, for children aged 5 to 8  -  visit Animacat’s House/La maison de Chanima, a fun and interactive Web site where children can learn while playing games and watching short animated films online.  A teacher’s and parents’ guide is also available on the site. The Web site can be used in conjunction with classroom activities and themes or as a stand-alone investigation into animation.
http://www.nfb.ca/animacat