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Digital Video

• Alasmedia
  http://alasmedia.wikispaces.com/AM_home
  A wiki space for creative people or those who want to be.
  
  
• Digicam Lesson Plans
  http://207.28.11.252/eblue/index.html
  Digital Communications or "Digicom" is a language arts program for high ability students at Crestwood Junior and Senior High. Digicom classes are built around technology as a communications and research tool. While reading and writing are as important as ever, students of the 21st Century must employ them in new ways.
  
  
• Digital Video - What's in it for me and my school?
  http://education.guardian.co.uk/digitalvideo/
  story/0,12641,842757,00.html
  Digital video technology will make film-makers of us all, while schools all over the country are embracing it as a new educational tool
  
  
• Education @AFI
  http://www.afi.com/Education/
  The AFI Screen Education Center empowers teachers and students to use the techniques of filmmaking to transform the learning process.
  
  
• Flickschool
  http://torres21.typepad.com/flickschool/
  
• This site is produced by A L A S media + S F E T T + Cine de la Gente. We have been creating WHY to, FOR EXAMPLE, and HOW to videos for 10 years.
  
  
• iMovie Support from Apple
  http://www.info.apple.com/gben/imovie/
  iMovie support is offered by Apple to answer questions asked by users of their iMovie program.

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Digital Photo

• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2
  http://www.photoshopuser.com/lightroom2/
  WEb site on Lightroom from the National Association of Photoshop Professional. Lots to tutorials on using Lightroom.
  
  
• Aperture
  http://www.apple.com/aperture/
  Aperture allows photographers to manage their digital image workflow. Import, edit, keyword, store images, and easly retrieve photographs.
  
  
• Aperture4Educators
  http://web.mac.com/worley/Aperture/Aperture4Educators/rss.xml
  Aperture for Educators is a podcast for teachers and students who want a software program that goes beyond the capabilities of basic level photo program. This video podcast looks at Aperture from an educational point of view.
  
  
• Aperture Professional Website
  http://www.apertureprofessional.com/
  Dedicated to providing information, education, training and support for Apple-based photographers.
  
  
• Photoshop User TV
  http://www.photoshopusertv.com/
  A weekly video program on using Photoshop from NAPP.
  
  
• Lightroom
  http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/
  Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 software is essential for today's digital photography workflow. Now you can quickly import, process, manage, and showcase your images — from one shot to an entire shoot.
  
  
• Teach Photography
  http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/subject/photography.html
  Resources to help teach photography using Adobe products.
  
  
• Through a Class Darkly: Visual Literacy in the Classroom
  http://www.csse.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE26-2/CJE26-2-Begoray.pdf
  “Viewing and Representing in the Middle Years” was a two-year project to investigate visual literacy in the English language arts classrooms of three teachers.
  
  
• Visual Literacy and Picture Books
  http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/bookzone/vislit.html
  Learning experiences which allow students to think critically about how images convey meaning should be essential inclusions in classroom literacy programs.
  
  
• Visual Literacy and the Classroom
  http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/literacy/riesland.htm
  While reading and writing will most likely remain at the heart of standard literacy education, educators should reconsider what it means to be literate in the technological age.
  
  
• Visual Literacy in Teaching and Learning: A Literature Perspective
  http://ejite.isu.edu/Volume1No1/pdfs/stokes.pdf
  This paper provides an introduction to visual literacy and includes a review of studies that investigate the effects of instruction that incorporates varying degrees of visual components including no visual support, still visual aids, and animated visual sequences.
  
  
• Visucate
  http://visucate.tripod.com/
  Visucate is an innovative program dedicated to the use of visual literacy in elementary schools to educate the entire classroom population.
  
  

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Digital Audio

• Audacity
  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/
  Audacity is a free downloadable program use to create and edit audio files.
  
  
• Digicam Lesson Plans
  http://207.28.11.252/eblue/index.html
  Digital Communications or "Digicom" is a language arts program for high ability students at Crestwood Junior and Senior High. Digicom classes are built around technology as a communications and research tool. While reading and writing are as important as ever, students of the 21st Century must employ them in new ways.
  
  
• GarageBand
  http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/
  GarageBand your own personal recording studio, where you can create songs, edit audio, create podcast, score music and much more.
  
  
• Mixcraft
  http://acoustica.com/mixcraft/
  With Mixcraft 4's Virtual Instrument support and unbelievable professional instrument collection, you can turn your computer into an entire music production facility with the addition of a simple, inexpensive USB music keyboard or MIDI keyboard.
  
  
• Sessions - M-Audio
  http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Session-main.html
  M-Audio Session is the make-music-now software for the PC. Session lets you make professional-sounding songs and remixes the first time you open the software—even if you’ve never played a note before.
  
  
• Tech Ease - Audacity
  http://etc.usf.edu/te_win/movies/audacity.html
  Video tutorials on how to use Audacity.
  

Last Updated
August 28, 2008

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