Trailfire

Some interesting ‘trails’ that have been created using Trailfire found at www.trailfire.com

History http://trailfire.com/Marje/trailview/56952

Storyboards

This site allows you to choose and print the storyboard size that is required –  http://www.pdfpad.com/storyboards/

Great explanation of storyboards with some examples  –  http://accad.osu.edu/womenandtech/Storyboard%20Resource/

Photo Story 3 for Windows

Some tutorial sites for Photo Story  –  http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PhotoStory3/

http://www.windowsphotostory.com/

A great step by step tutorial can be found at http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdf

This site has some excellent ideas for using digital images across KLAs as well as clear instructions for using Photo Story 3 –  http://drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/photostorytelling/storytelling_PhotoStory.htm

This site has so many links to digital story telling, podcast and more  –  http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/digitalmedia.htm#Photo_Story

Comic Life

A great example of Comic Life from the PlasQ site –  Robert Fripp and Tony Levin  sharing the day-to-day stories of touring within one of the most influential prog rock bands – on King Crimson’s 40th Anniversary Tour  –  http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=11389

A reminder of how to use Comic Life in the Classroom  –  http://www.macinstruct.com/node/69

TeacherTube has a great video on Comic Life  –  http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=cc5b9f5a2aaa74da584e

Some examples of Student work from the Comic Life Community Forum  –  http://homepage.mac.com/adam_bezark/comiclife/

Creating avatars

To create an online avatar  –  http://www.reasonablyclever.com/mini

To draw an avatar/picture  –  http://www.mrpicassohead.com/

Create comics on-line for free

This site allows students to make comics on-line  –  http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Teaching with Technology

A blog from Tom with some great links – http://tomdavidson.edublogs.org/

Web 2.0 Tools

This site has been set up for school library media specialists to learn about new web tools – http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/

Another site for Web 2.0 tools – http://www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listweb20s.html

Interactive Whiteboard Resources

Promethean – ActivStudio –  http://www.prometheanplanet.com/uk/ and educational resources
http://blog.prometheanplanet.com/?p=165
Smart Board –  www.smarttech.com and resources http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/

Marvin

A great programme (supported by Microsoft) that allows students and Teachers to create scenarios using given characters – http://www.marvin.com.au. Check the examples http://www.marvin.com.au/marvin/examples.asp such as NT Health Department Baby Operation Project where indigenous language is spoken with an English translation in the speech bubbles.