Based on Teaching with Digital Images Edited by Glen L. Bull and Lynn Bell images and links to online resources
What is Digital Storytelling?
Center for Digital Storytelling www.storycenter.org >Click on the tree image >What is digital storytelling >MOMNOTMOM - A Story
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/gettysburg.htm
Digital Storytelling http://www.lubbockisd.org/sfirenza/storytelling/ Excellent descriptions of components of an effective digital story.
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/gettingstarted.htm
Adobe Kids’ Digital Storytelling http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/storytelling/sevensteps.html
Digital Storytelling http://story.e2bn.net/links/
Discovery Digital Storytelling http://www.discoveryeducatornetwork.com/kr/default.cfm?node_id=125277
Microsoft Photo Story 3 http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx Download free for valid Windows users
Where Can I Find Digital Images in the Public Domain?
Pics4Learning www.pics4learning.com Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.
Flikr (image sharing site) www.flickr.com
Ourmedia (media repository site) www.ourmedia.org
Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/PylPira.html
Ditto http://ditto.com A digital image search engine.
FreePhoto.com www.freefoto.com At this site, 64,582 images are organized into 116 sections and 2,307 categories. The site’s educational use policy can be found at www.freefoto.com/browse.jsp?id=99-16-0
FreeStockPhotos.com http://freestockphotos.com/ This site offers images of animals, weather, scenery, plants, and wildflowers.
The Manzanita Project, Special Collections, California Academy of Sciences Library www.calacademy.org/research/library/manzanita/html/images.html The image categories here include plants, fungi, animals, landscape and habitat, and people and culture. The site’s educational use policy is at www.calacademy.org/research/library/manzanita/html/useinfo.htm#educational
The Morgue File www.morguefile.com A morgue file is an archive of newspaper articles and photographs. This site offers archives of images contributed by users that are freely available for use without charge.
Open Photo http://openphoto.net This site hosts a database of images covered by the Creative Commons license, which in general specifies that the works may be copied and distributed non-commercially, provided credit is given to the original author. Specific licensing terms may vary for individual photos, and these terms are clearly identified on the Web site.
Ray I. Doan Photographic Collection www.raydoan.com More than 700 professionally photographed landscape and wildlife images are offered here. Printed or high resolution images are available for a significant fee, but the photographer allows free downloads of the Web images for educational use. Find the site’s educational use policy is at www.raydoan.com/Educational_Use.htm
The Stock Exchange http://sxc.hu/ The stock exchange is a collection of photographs contributed by amateur photographers who offer their work for use by the public without charge. The archive has more than 100,000 images arranged by categories such as nature, art and architecture, travel, and transportation.
Ramsay Library Resources
United Streaming www.unitedstreaming.org Images, videos, lesson plans, connections to MA Frameworks
World Book Online www.worldbookonline Recommended Web links, Massachusetts history, connections to MA Frameworks
Facts on File www.2facts.com
Britannica Online www.search.eb.com
Grove Art
Grove Music
Digital Images and Copyright
Higher Education: Questions & Answers on Copyright for the Campus Community www.publishers.org/about/copyqa.cfm Classroom guidelines on fair use of copyrighted material.
The Cornell Copyright Center www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm A useful chart that outlines the current copyright terms for various types of work.
Library of Congress American Memories Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem This site includes photos available in the public domain.
Stanford University Libraries: Copyright and Fair Use http://fairuse.stanford.edu Education specific http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter7/7-b.html#1
University of Texas: Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/copypol2.htm#test
Camera Stuff
Digital Photography Review www.dpreview.com
Digital Camera Resource Page www.dcresource.com
ShortCourses.com www.shortcourses.com
Camera Basics Tutorials http://www.silverlight.co.uk/tutorials/toc.html
Composition Tutorials http://www.armadillocamera.com/tutorial/composition.htm
Digital Image Files
Resolution
File size
Thumbnails
Storage
Attached files in email
Editing Software
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Adobe Premiere Elements
Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net Free download of an audio editor.
Photo Story 3 www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx Free download of a photo story editor.
Photoshop Tips (by Jay Arraich) www.arraich.com
*Note: In Word and PowerPoint simple editing such as cropping, lighting, and layers can be done with drawing tools .
Visual Arts Resources
Consortium of National Arts Education Associations http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/standards/ National standards for art education.
Smithsonian American Art Museum http://americanart.si.edu/
Landscape Architecture Image Resource www.lair.umd.edu This database provides photographs of countries, places, and architecture.
Elementary Art Resources http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/eledArt.html
Incredible Art Department http://princetonol.com/groups/iad/
dmoz Art Links http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Education/Educators/K_through_12/
Click! Using a Digital Camera in the Elementary Classroom http://www.edzone.net/~mwestern/pix.html
National Gallery of Art www.nga.gov
Grove Music
National Science Education Standards www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/
Weather Questions: Why are sunsets red?www.weatherquestions.com/Why_are_sunsets_red.htm
All About Birds at Cornell Lab of Ornithology http://birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/ An amazing Web site that includes information about various types of birds, including bird songs.
TopoZone http://topozone.com A repository of topographic maps.
Science Clipart http://sciencespot.net/Pages/refdeskclips.html
NCTE English Language Arts Standards www.ncte.org/about/over/standards/
Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/childlit.htm
Free Federal Resources for Excellence in Education http://free.ed.gov/subjects.cfm?subject_id=78
Kathy Schrock’s Guide at Discovery Learning http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/arts/artlit.html
Middle Web http://www.middleweb.com/CurrLangArt.html
Community Learning Network: Educational Resources in English/Language Arts http://www.cln.org/subjects/english.html
Internet for Classrooms http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lang.htm
Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu This site includes images available in the public domain.
Howard
Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers &
marooners of the Spanish Main
Read Write Think
http://www.readwritethink.org
Purdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principals and Standards for School Mathematics http://standards.nctm.org
Mathematics Resources K-12 http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/math.htm
Mathematica http://www.wolfram.com
Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Mathematics Resources http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/math.html
Math Resources - Tutorials, Formulas, Calculators, Directories http://www.khake.com/page47.html
PBS for Teachers http://www.pbs.org/teachers/math
Math Forum http://mathforum.org/math.topics.html
NASA Weekly Math Problems http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/weekly/weekly.html
NASA Space Math http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/MathDocs/spacemath.html
Education Planet Math http://www.educationplanet.com/search/Math
Social Studies and History Resources
Social Studies Standards www.ncss.org
Project Look Sharp: Media Construction of War: A Critical Reading of History http://www.ithaca.edu/looksharp This is a multimedia curriculum kit designed by classroom social studies teachers at Project Look Sharp in Ithaca, New York. Students develop visual literacy and critical thinking skills while learning core historical information required by state and national social studies standards. They also learn to ask key media literacy questions, identify bias in the news, and gain the visual decoding skills needed to practice critical reading of historical documents and answer document-based questions (DBQs).
The Historical Scene Investigation Project (HIS) www.hsionline.org The Historical Scene Investigation Project was designed for social studies teachers who need a strong pedagogical mechanism for bringing primary sources into their classroom. The site includes a number of investigations, standardized as historic cases, for students to explore using primary sources. For every case, there is a section for the teacher. This section lists particular objectives for the activity and also provides additional contextual information and resources as well as instructional strategies that the teacher might find useful.
SCIM-C Historical Inquiry Tutorial http://edpsychserver.ed.vt.edu/scim/soced The SCIM-C Historical Inquiry Tutorial, a multimedia instructional scaffold, was designed as a freely accessible Web tool to assist teachers and students in developing an understanding of historical inquiry skills. The design of the SCIM-C tutorial is based on historical inquiry research, empirical guidelines for cognitive strategy instruction, empirical guidelines for instructional multimedia development, and transcripts of historians engaging in historical inquiry. Each instructional session comprises three sections: strategy explanation, strategy modeling, and strategy practice.
University of Virginia Special Collections Library, Holsinger Studio Collection www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/collections/holsinger The Holsinger Studio Collection offers a photographic record of life in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, from before the turn of the century through World War I.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration www.nara.gov The National Archives provides a range of U.S. history primary sources along with additional resources for teaching history in the social studies. Within this site are various lesson plans along with document analysis sheets as a means for deconstructing primary sources.
U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html This is a searchable database of historic photographs, many of which are in the public domain.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) www.archives.gov The mission of the NARA is to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of federal officials, and the national experience.
Virginia Center for Digital History www.vcdh.virginia.edu/research.html This site includes images related to the following American history topics (as well as other subjects):
Civil War http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/Images/search_images.html
Jamestown, Virginia www.virtualjamestown.org/gallery.html
Dolley Madison www.vcdh.virginia.edu/madison/exhibit/index.html
Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950–1970 www.vcdh.virginia.edu/civilrightstv
Japanese Internment http://library.csus.edu/collections/jaac
Lewis and Clark http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/lewis-clark/
CIA Factbook www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html CIA Factbook offers a factually accurate listing of data by country that is updated in real time. It includes categories such as maps, transportation, people, government, economy, communications, and transnational issues.
Harcourt School Publishers www.harcourtschool.com/glossary/horizons/index.html This site provide a glossary of geography terms.
Media Literacy http://www.medialit.org/
Alliance for a Media Literate America. What is media literacy? www.amlainfo.org/medialit/index.php
Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php Rubistar is a free rubric making tool.