Graphics
Animation Factory - 3D Art, Animations and Presentations - A dynamic collection of easy to use animations that work in your email, web pages, and presentations. Click on a category to the left to browse our 3,000 free animated GIFs or get all of our animations by becoming a member of Animation Factory.
Animation Library - a site featuring free animations for you to use on your website or send as digital postcards using our powerful Postcard Station
Animation Station - animated graphics, backgrounds, and graphics of every kind
Awesome Clipart for Kids - We have Teacher, Student & Family-Friendly free clipart, coloring pages, backgrounds, banners, fonts, icons, lines, skins, worksheets and wallpaper with aliens, animals, cats, creatures, dogs, education, holidays, robots, sports, toys, weather & more.
Barry's Clipart Server - collection of clipart, animations, fonts, etc.
Bells and Whistles - animated graphics, software, java applets, javascript, etc.
Classroom Clipart - Welcome to ClassroomClipart, where you will find a large variety of photographs, clipart and historical images.
ClipArt Connection - The Clip Art Connection is an award winning, free resource for all types of clip art and digital imagery. Thousands of local images plus hundred's of clipart related links. One of the largest single clip-art resources on the web.
CoolText - an online graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you might need an impressive logo without a lot of work
FlamingText - At this site you can create cool, custom images for FREE, to use on your website, or in your e-mail.
Free Art Site - McCanna - Please include a link back to http://www.mccannas.com if you use any of the artwork here! Note: all the files here are in Zip format.
Freefoto - A large collection of free photographs for non-commercial use.
Microsoft Design Gallery Live - Express yourself with free clip art, photos, animations and sounds from Design Gallery Live.
Music Graphics Galore - A collection of music icons, clipart, graphics, and backgrounds.
My Free Clipart - Free holiday clipart, new clipart added monthly.
Pics4Learning - 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. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection.
Web Clip Art - A list of indexes and categories of all the original clip art and photo clips on this site.

Integration
4teachers - integrate technology into your classroom with FREE online tools and resources.
Knowledge CONTEXT - KnowledgeContext believes that all children should be offered the tools for thriving in a world where technology is changing how we study, what careers are available, the issues on which we vote, what we buy, and how we take care of ourselves.
Technology Curriculum Integration Ideas - Great integration ideas of all types.
Technology Integration - From Linda Burkhart
Technology Integration - Instructional Module from the George Lucas Education Foundation

Music and Sounds
A1 Free Sound Effects - All kinds of sounds available for download.
Classical Music Archives - Welcomes free users, who may access 5 unprotected files/day (MIDI and WMA). SuggestS becoming a Friend ($25/year), to access (listen/stream/download) 1000 files/month.
FreeSoloPiano.com - The artists represented on this site have provided it to you at no cost in order to introduce you to their music.
Future of Music Coalition - These video clips are provided free of charge to benefit the music community. They are encoded as MPEG4 files and can be played by QuickTime, Real One, and MPEG IP, players.
MFiles - students and teachers may use the music on the understanding that it is strictly for non-commercial, educational purposes. They request that you provide a credit or a link such as "music from www.mfiles.co.uk" when using their material.
MIDI Site - Midi search engine
MIDI Songs - Pop songs to down.oad in midi format
Partners in Rhyme - Download free royalty free music loops from our musicloops.com website and listen to ReaAudio examples of our extensive library of sound effects, music loops, button sound effects, royalty free music for video and multimedia presentations.
Public Domain 4U - Bringing You the Best in Public Domain
Sonnyboo - Here are some instrumental music that you can use in your productions that's legal & free. All you have to do is credit the composer.

Online Learning
Connected University - Connected University is a subscription-based, online professional development community, providing educators with courses, learning resources, just-in-time support, and a convenient way to interact with your peers nationwide as you work to integrate technology and improve student learning in your classroom.
CTAP Online Region II - CTAP Online is devoted to helping teachers understand, apply and teach technology in the classroom. The catalog offers courses in personal proficiency skills, technology integration in curriculum, information literacy, standards, assessment and more. The service is subscription-based.
Foothill College - LINC - The Foothill College Krause Center for Innovation offers the perfect programs to help you improve your technology skills. Are you looking for accessible, affordable classes to help you integrate technology into your curriculum? We have the solution.

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PDA's - Personnal Digital Assistants
Cooties - Cooties™ is a simulation program for hand-held computers that students use collaboratively to examine the spread of disease.
Frequently Asked Questions From Palm - Integration of Palm handhelds into the curriculum
Kids Gauge Air Quality - News article describing students use of Palms to measure pollution
Report Card on Handheld Computing - Due to an appealing confluence of power, portability, and price, handheld computers are gaining momentum in schools. We've gathered reports from pioneers in the field to help explore the pros and cons.
Study: PDAs Good for Education - Handheld devices, once solely the province of CEOs needing a small electronic organizational device, are another step closer to being accepted as teaching aids in public schools.

Planning Guides
Asking the Essential Question - Essential questions are questions that require you to make a decision or plan a course of action.
Bloom's Taxonomy 1 - Major Categories in the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
Bloom's Taxonomy 2 - Benjamin Bloom created this taxonomy for categorizing level of abstraction of questions that commonly occur in educational settings.
Bloom's Taxonomy 3 - Teaching Using Blooms Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy 4 - PDF A lesson planning tool
Bloom's Taxonomy Activity - An activity that applies Bloom's theory of developing higher levels of thought processes to everyday classroom reading using "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".
Bloom's Taxonomy Question Creation Wheel - Cool Tool for constucting questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy.
Challenge 2000 Guidelines - This summarizes work done by teachers at a MultiMedia Project Workday, and represents the "state of the art" of the Challenge 2000 MMP Planning Guide for PBL+MM.
Challenge 2000 Project Framework - This page presents a framework for planning a successful PBL+MM project. The framework is meant to help plan a project and utilize the Website materials at each step. The framework is structured enough to guide your process, and flexible enough to adapt to your practices and needs. You'll also find a table outlining examples of how the framework could be applied, with links to narrative examples of how these steps could be carried out by different teachers doing very different types of projects.
Dale's Cone of Experience - According to Edgar Dale, humans retain 90% of what they say as they do a thing:
enGauge - This site is designed to help districts and schools plan and evaluate the systemwide use of educational technology.
Framing Essential Questions - We are fighting a long school history of topical research. For decades students have been sent to the library to "find out about" some topic. This tradition has led to information gathering but little analysis or thought. Essential questions set students and staff free from this tedious and wasteful ritual. Research becomes motivating and meaningful.
Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction - According to Robert Gagne, there are nine events that activate processes needed for effective learning. Gagne believes all lessons should include this sequence of events:
Generating Essential Questions - Inquiring into Essential Questions gives teaching and learning purposeful, meaningful and "big picture" focus for learning details and ideas. It engages higher mental and emotional capacities.
Inquiry Leading to Understanding - Through inquiry and project-based activities, ILU attempts to reach the higher cognitive functions of Bloom’s Taxonomy: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation (Bloom).
Metacognition - The three elements of metacognitive planning.
Setting Up Cooperative Groups - Here are some general guidelines to follow when setting up cooperative groups.
Six Facets of Understanding - What is the enduring idea? What will they remember about the topic in five year?
Topic 2: Planning for Technology Based Instruction - Thematic Planning-Integrated Instruction
Topic 3: Identifying Teaching Styles - Reflect on your teaching style.
Understanding By Design - This book, by Wiggins and McTighe, is intended for educators interested in enhancing student understanding and in designing more effective curriculums and assessments to promote understanding.
Understanding By Design: Backward Design - Beginning With The End in Mind to Design Multi-Genre Thematic Units from the Greece Central School District and Wiggins and McTighe.
Understanding By Design: Digital Literacy - Backward design process flow chart
Writing Behavioral Objectives - definition and examples
Writing Measurable Objectives - This web site contains information and exercises to assist online learners in writing measurable objectives.

Project-Based Learning
Buck Institute PBL - The Buck Institute for Education supports the use of Project Based Learning as a central strategy by which specific curricular goals and standards can be attained.
Buck Institute PBL - Managing Project Based Learning - This investigation sought to describe the classroom management techniques used by teachers who were expert in the use of project based learning instructional strategies.
Buck Institute - Project Based Learning Handbook - The introduction is designed to orient you to the field of Project Based Learning. Included in this section are a brief history of PBL and a description of its benefits.
Education Week: Mathematics for the Moment, Or the Millennium? - What a British study has to say about teaching methods.
George Lucas Educational Foundation - GLEF is a nonprofit organization that documents and disseminates stories about exemplary practices in K-12 public education.
Inquiry-based Learning, An Introduction - Asking questions is at the heart of inquiry-based learning. Your role is to guide the kids in finding the answers themselves and encourage them to ask new questions along the way.
Intel Education: It's a Wild Ride: Roller Coaster Design Team Tasks -
Interactive Multimedia Development - This site provides useful information about learning theories, multimedia development process, design principles, and software programs related to interactive multimedia production and design.
More Fun Than a Barrel of ... Worms?! - Curiosity about a classmate's cystic fibrosis leads to an investigation of genetics. Desire to produce a school yearbook veers into a study of refraction and other properties of light. Discovery that the World Wrestling Federation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange turns into creation of a business newspaper and an in-depth look at the Great Depression. [GLEF]
NCREL's Indicators of Engaged Learning - This activity is intended to be a tool to help you think through the kinds of activities you use to help your students learn.
NCREL's Indicators of Engaged Learning Table 1 -
NCREL's Meaningful, Engaged Learning - These indicators of engaged learning can act as a "compass" for reform instruction, helping educators chart an instructional course and maintain an orientation based on a vision of engaged learning and what it looks like in the classroom and community.
Project-based Learning - A WebQuest by Linda Ullah - This is a project about project-based learning. This project is designed to teach educators what project-based learning is and how they can use it in their schools to improve student learning.
SRI International Evaluation of Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project - This page is designed to offer the evaluation findings to specific audiences: Technology Coordinators and Administrators, Teachers, Students and Parents, Business Partners, and Researchers.
What is Project-Based Learning? - Project-based learning has tremendous potential for creating a learning experience which is both interesting and meaningful...

Project Samples
Challenge 2000 Classroom Examples - selected examples of student work and classroom web pages.
E-Portfolios by Gayle Britt - A portfolio is a purposeful collection of student work that tells the story of a student's achievement and growth. Portfolios demonstrate students' learning experiences as they reflect on their work.
Global School Network's Project Registry - This is the original clearinghouse for collaborative projects from across the globe - projects hosted by the Global SchoolNet Foundation, other reputable organizations, and outstanding partner projects conducted by teachers worldwide!
Judi Harris' Educational Activity Structures - Harris believes that the Internet offers educators three structure genres (Problem Solving Projects, Information Collections, and Interpersonal Exchanges) with five to seven activity structures per genre.
Silk Road Project by Gayle Britt - This year long project requires students in 7th grade social studies/language arts to connect the medieval world, people and cultures via trade routes (known as the Silk Road).

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Real World Project Search
Blue Web'N - PacBell - Blue Web'n is an online library of 1200+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
Challenge 2000 Selected Examples of Student Work - Exemplary projects on a variety of subjects and age levels.
Filmentality - PacBell - Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities.
Global Schoolhouse - Global SchoolNet is the leader in collaborative learning. We continue to provide online opportunities for teachers to collaborate, communicate, and celebrate shared learning experiences.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
Knowledge Network Explorer - PacBell - Online learning in the classroom and library, web-based lessons, activities, and more.
ProTeacher - ProTeacher is a professional community for elementary school teachers, specialists, and student teachers in grades preK-6. Our open membership includes visitors from across the United States, and guests from around the world. We feature BusyBoard discussion boards, mailrings, and an extensive directory of teacher-selected lesson plans, teaching ideas and resources.
SCORE - Links to quality Internet resources and teacher-developed lessons, supporting California's content standards and curriculum frameworks, promoting information literacy...
TechLearning Hot List - TLN is a full-spectrum education technology resource for education technology leaders.
Virtual Blackboard - virtual field trips on nature topics with the goal of making the best use of the web in the classroom. These annotated field trips take students to some of the best web sites on each trip subject. We have also listed additional teacher's resources for each of the trips. Our field trips format makes learning fun, and makes using the Internet in the classroom simple, efficient and focused.
WebQuest Examples - New Matricies - A new matricies of representive WebQuests listed by grade level and subject. Click on "Top," "Middling," or "New" to see and search the improved matricies.

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References and Resources
Ask an Expert - Askanexpert.com connects you with hundreds of real world experts, ranging from astronauts to zookeepers. These experts have volunteered to answer your questions for free!
Citing Internet Resources (From Classroom Connect) - Just as students need to cite the books and periodicals they use to support their research, they must also cite online sources of information.
Dewey, John - John Dewey enjoyed a lengthy career as an educator, psychologist, and philosopher.
Dictionary.Com - Look up English words, computer terms, place names, biblical names, and US ZIP codes.
Glossary of Internet Terms - Permission is granted to use this glossary, with credit to Matisse Enzer, for noncommercial educational purposes...
Kathy Schrock's ABC's of Web Site Evaluation - Evaluation of Web sites is an important skill to learn in this age of digital and information literacy.
Landmarks for Schools - This web site is dedicated to the idea that Information will be the raw material that drives the 21st century, and that today's students should be learning to BUILD with information.
Peachpit Press - Quality How-To Computer Books
A Questioning Toolkit - From Jamie McKenzie's From Now On web site: Questions may be the most powerful technology we have ever created. Questions and questioning allow us to make sense of a confusing world. They are the tools that lead to insight and understanding. Smart questions are essential technology for those who venture on to the Information Highway.
QuickTime - Apple - Here are just a few of the reasons why QuickTime is the platform of choice for multimedia and web designers, producers and distributors.
Internet Institute Tier 2 Curriculum 1999 - Teachers Advancing Their Skills in using Technology, the Internet, Project-Based Learning, Assessment, and Collaboration.
PuzzleMaker - Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.
Schools of the U.S.: Elementary
Schools of the U.S.: Middle
Schools of the U.S.: High
Time, U.S. Official - This web site is intended as a accurate time-of-day service that includes a world map illustrating the areas in darkness and in daylight.
TrackStar - TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. The resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track.
TrackStar: How To Make and Modify A "Track" - by Chris Heumann
TrackStar Tutorial - by Chris Heumann
turnitin.com - is a resource for helping prevent Internet plagiarism, and helps educators and students ensure the Internet remains an asset rather than a detriment to learning.
WWW4teachers - The online space for teachers integrating technology into the curriculum

Research, Studies & Articles
American Educational Research Association: Policy on High-Stakes Testing in PreK-12 Education
Buck Institute for Education: Technology Research - We attempt to understand the wide range of experiences with technology in order to understand our uses in their appropriate context.
Digital Storytelling: Is It Art? - A debate on the use of digital vs. paper books.
How Can Technology Develop Higher Order Thinking and Problem Solving? - research evidence, references, and CARET selected studies
How Much Information? - This study is an attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. We look at several media and estimate yearly production, accumulated stock, rates of growth, and other variables of interest. This study was produced by faculty and students at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley.
Internet Guide to Multiple Intelligences - This guide is designed to help educators and learners navigate the riches and locate quality information quickly and easily.
Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligence - This page provides an explanation of what learning styles and multiple intelligence are all about, an interactive assessment of your learning style/MI, and practical tips to make your learning style work for you.
Multiple Intelligences - Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is important because although all people have all the intelligences they may learn best through their dominant one. Teachers need to design lessons that address all the intelligences.
Reinventing Schools with Technology - If you want to see the future of education, don't watch children in the average classroom. Watch children play a video game.
Satir Change Model - Virginia Satir's system helps people improve their lives by transforming the way they see and express themselves.
SCANS Report - The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) was appointed by the Secretary of Labor to determine the skills our young people need to succeed in the world of work.
SRI International Evaluation of Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project - The evaluation examined three aspects of the Multimedia Project: its dissemination across various schools and districts, its impact on teaching practice, and its effects on student achievement.
Stages of Change Model - Psychologists developed the Stages of Change Theory in 1982 to compare smokers in therapy and self-changers along a behavior change continuum.
Step Change Framework - A Step Change framework with definitions plus a corresponding Agenda Map and Metrics Map.
Toward Systemic Educational Change - Questions from a Complex Systems Perspective
Transtheorhetical Model/Stages of Change - From the University of South Florida: Stages of Change
Understanding by Design - To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.
What are my Learning Strengths? - This activity will help you find out what your strengths are. Knowing this, you can work to strengthen the other intelligences that you do not use as often.
What Do Teachers Really Need to Know About Computers? - By Dr. Jerry Chaffin, The answer may surprise you.

Rubrics and Assessment
Challenge 2000 Defining Rubric - What is a rubric? It can be a guide for critiquing the effectiveness of media projects and for planning project designs, a tool for assessment used by teachers and students, and a process of establishing the essential goals and assessment criteria of multimedia projects in your class.
American Psychological Association: Appropriate Use of High-Stakes Testing in Our Nation's Schools - How Should Student Learning and Achievement Be Measured?
Challenge 2000 Rubric Development - Notes on Rubric Development
Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project Scoring Rubric - Scoring Guidelines
enGauge Indicator: Alignment - There's A Lot of Learning Going On—Use Multiple Assessments to Capture IT All
Guidelines for Rubric Development - Steps in Rubric Development
Intel Education: It's a Wild Ride: Assessing Learning - A range of assessment strategies from embedded performance assessment to traditional paper tests, inform students and teachers about learning progress.
K. Schrock Rubric Guide - Now that we are using the Internet in the classroom to support instruction, it is important the area of assessment be addressed. A usable method for teachers is to provide a rubric for student use and for both formative and summative assessment purposes.
MidLink Magazine's Rubrics - Rubrics and Evaluation Resources
Sample - Collaboration - This is a sample rubric to access collaboration.
Sample - Scientific Report - This is a sample rubric to access work on a scientific report.
Rubistar - RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
Rubric Generator from Teach-nology - allow you to make grading rubrics by filling out a simple form
Rubric Template - This is a sample framework template for rubric creation. You fill in the particulars.
Rubrics - Web Lessons - How often have you attempted to grade your students' work only to find that the assessment criteria were vague and the performance behavior was overly subjective? Would you be able to justify the assessment or grade if you had to defend it? The Rubric is an authentic assessment tool which is particularly useful in assessing criteria which are complex and subjective.

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Search Tools
AltaVista
AltaVista Image Search
Awesome Library
B. Dodge - Step Zero - What to Do Before Searching
B. Dodge - Seven Steps Worksheet - This worksheet is designed to accompany Seven Steps Towards Better Searching. Print it out (reduced to 90%), record your answers, and think about why the numbers came out that way.
B. Dodge - Four NETS for Better Searching - The perfect page is out there somewhere. It's the page that has exactly the information you're looking for and to you it's beautiful and unattainable like a faraway star. If only you had a super-sized net for capturing it!
Ditto.com - a visual search engine
Dogpile
Excite
Google
Google Image Search
InFoPeople
ixquick
KidsClick - web search for kids by librarians
LookSmart
Lycos
Mamma
Metacrawler
Search Engine Showdown - Search Engine Showdown, the users' guide to Web searching, compares and evaluates Internet search engines from the searcher's perspective.
Yahoo
Yahooligans - The Web Guide for Kids

Slides
Effectively Using Tech with State Adopted Materials (Breeze) - This presentation helps teachers and instructional leaders effectively use technology tools in the classroom by Chris Walsh
George Lucas Foundation: Project-Based Learning PowerPoint Presentation -
Web Site Building 101 - This is an extensive PowerPoint presentation by Donna Taylor of the Mountain View School District covering many facets of building a school web site.

Special Needs
Links provided by Sharon Eilts as resources for information in special needs areas.
Visually Impaired Users - A percentage of Internet surfers are visually impaired. Whether members of this group are blind, color blind or do not have the vision they once had, it's important their needs are recognized.

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Standards
CSU Northridge, The Standards - The California Content Standards and Curriculum Frameworks for K-12 public schools.
History-Soc.Sci. - CDE - content standards for California Public Schools K-12
History-Soc. Sci. - SCORE
Language Arts - CDE - content standards for California Public Schools K-12
Language Arts - SCORE
Math - CDE - content standards for California Public Schools K-12
Math - SCORE -
Science - CDE - content standards for California Public Schools K-12
Science - SCORE
National Standards - Standards that define accomplished teaching are the heart of the work of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The National Board is developing standards in 31 fields.
National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project - The primary goal of the ISTE NETS Project is to enable stakeholders in PreK-12 education to develop national standards for educational uses of technology that facilitate school improvement in the United States.
Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning - Excerpted from Chapter 2, "Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning," of Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Copyright © 1998 American Library Association and Association for Educational Communications and Technology

.Tools and Software
Adobe Photoshop Album - The fast and easy way to organize and share your lifetime of photos.
Advancing Knowledge with Technology - Educator Gayle Britt shares three key elements she has found essential in her own teaching to ensure that students truly advance their knowledge when they use technology as a tool for learning.
Backflip - A Web-Based Bookmark Manager
Blue Armadillo Graphic Utility - a free image batch conversion utility. Use this software to convert an entire folder of images from one format to another, one size to another, add a uniform effect to all of the images, or any combination of these.
CuteFTP - Used by millions worldwide, CuteFTP® is the easiest way to transfer files between your PC and remote computers.
Fetch FTP - Fetch is an easy-to-use, full-featured FTP client for the Apple Macintosh.
FTP Explorer - Welcome to one of the most versatile, and powerful, yet easy to use FTP programs available today!
Graphic Organizer - Some resources you might find useful for writing and the use of graphic organizers, mind mapping and concept mapping.
Graphic Organizer Generators - The generators below will allow you to make graphic organizers by filling out a simple form. The materials are made instantly and can be printed directly from your computer.
I keep bookmarks - A Web-Based Bookmark Manager
Inspiration - Mind-mapping software
ProbeSight - Given their proven educational value, increasing availability, decreasing cost, and increasing portability sensor technology should become a familiar part of learning across the curriculum at all grades.
QuickTime -
Server.com - Although not designed for educators, it can be use as a tool to create online discussions.
Turnitin.com -
WS_FTP - "the smarter way to transfer files because it makes sharing files secure, reliable, efficient and easy."

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Tutorials and Tips
ACTDEN - actden (Digital Education Network) has been a resource for online learning since 1995. Please 'click' around and enjoy our free software tutorials and high-quality online courses.
AppleWorks Basics - This online tutorial offers a basic foundation of the different components of AppleWorks.
DreamWeaver FAQ.com - DreamweaverFAQ.com offers a variety of tutorials, answers to frequently asked questions, and is dedicated to serving the DreamWeaver Community.
Dreamweaver MX 2004 from the Rutgers Writing Program - One of the most widely-used and versatile programs for creating web pages today is Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004.
Dreamweaver MX Tutorial for Windows [PDF] -
Dreamweaver MX Tutorial for Macintosh [PDF] -
Dreamweaver MX 2004 Tutorial from Scratch - put Dreamweaver tools to work and build a small basic Web Site.
DreamWeaver Tutorials cbtcafe - Offers a variety of DreamWeaver tutorials using QuickTime movies.
E-mail: Learn the Net - How to harness e-mail.
E-mail: SOFWeb - Using the Internet - Electronic Mail
EWYL Tutorial Links - Tutorials on software used in the EWYL Institute.
Fireworks MX2004 Tutorials from Macromedia - The Fireworks MX 2004 tutorials offer an in-depth, hands-on look at the workflow for producing a Fireworks MX 2004 document.
Fireworks Tutorials by ENTHEOS - Cool Fireworks effects, learn useful Fireworks tips & tricks.
Fireworks MX and MX 2004 Tutorials by Joyce J. Evans - This site offers a variety of Fireworks tutorials in Flash Movie format.
How to Download a Picture - If you've ever gone to a Web site and found a picture you would love to have for a graphic, there's a way to grab it. You can save it and put it in your own files or Web pages.
Inspiration - This tutorial is a great starting point for learning how to use Inspiration® [PDF]
Kidspiration from Atomic Learning - FREE Kidspiration training for both Mac and PC.
Media Guidelines-Challenge 2000 - Quick Reference Guides on a variety of multimedia concepts.
Microsoft Office Tutorials - Learn to create rich learning experiences to power the Connected Learning Community using Microsoft Office products.
Nuts and Bolts Primer.pdf- Provides information that walks you through the nuts and bolts necessary to integrate video, VCR's, audio, and computers.
Photoshop and More - McCanna's -
Photoshop Tips, A Complete List -
Photoshop Tutorial from Adobe - Your ultimate bookmark for instructional content. Expert tips and tutorials, free downloads, and useful resources - all organized into one convenient location.
Photoshop 4.0 tutorial -
Quick and Easy Video - Making Really Cool Videos in 30 minutes with no muss no fuss and NO EDITING by Margo Nanny
QuickTime 101 - Lots O' Links on putting Quicktime sounds and movies on the web
WebMonkey - the web developer's resource, the site that's been teaching people how to build websites of their own since 1996.

Video and Digital Photography
Career Video Library - the library contains sixteen clips for the career clusters listed in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1998, seven (7) summary videos, five (5) industry videos and 412 career videos and royalty-free still photographs of all profiled occupations. The videos are compressed into Mpeg-1 and QuickTime© and are available with open-captioning for the hearing impaired.
Center for Digital Storytelling - The Center for Digital Storytelling is a non-profit project development, training, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives.
Dependent Films: Tools and Utilities for Filmmakers - a compilation of resources for aspiring filmmakers. Best of all, they're FREE!
Digital Cameras for Classroom Projects - Digital cameras have many benefits for classroom applications.
Digital Media in the Classroom - Welcome Digital Media in the Classroom. The Art of Digital Storytelling is the theme of this newest issue of our e-resource. Log in for a rich tour of hundreds of examples of digital storytelling projects-from personal turning point stories to more traditional historical documentaries and persuasive narratives. We also bring you experts' perspectives on how digital storytelling reinforces key 21st century skills. Free Registration is required but worth it.
Digital Storytelling Cookbook - The Cookbook is meant as a progressive approach to preparing and producing a short video story on a computer.
(The) Digitization of Learning - Looking to energize classroom instruction? Bring in digital video.
(The) Elements of Digital Storytielling - site provides a taxonomy of digital storytelling, analysis of current practices. clearinghouse of effects research, showcase of innovative story forms, and a forum for discussion.
Future of Music Coalition - These video clips are provided free of charge to benefit the music community. They are encoded as MPEG4 files and can be played by QuickTime, Real One, and MPEG IP, players.
George Lucas' Education Foundation Video Gallery - The Video Gallery features over 70 documentaries and interviews with experts on topics such as assessment, emotional intelligence, and project-based learning.
iMove Tips and Tricks Put You in the Director's Chair - a look at the production process, along with some tips for working faster and getting around the application's limitations.
Kids' Vid: Video Production for Students - An instructional website to help teachers and students use video production in class to support project-based learning.
Lighting Techniques for Video - This article will describe several methods for introducing light into your Video productions.
Sound Rules for Desktop Video: Better Audio for Video - capturing better sound for video
Tips for Making Your Movie - Movie making tips from Apple Computer
Tools For Television - Video layout considerations are illustrated by these examples.
Top Ten Tips for Shooting Better Videos - some simple rules that will guarantee better video results.
(Another) Top Ten Digital Video Tips - a collection of DV tips from Derrick Story's Digital Video Pocket Guide.

Web Sites, Authoring
Bells and Whistles - animated graphics, software, java applets, javascript, etc.
Dreamweaver Resource Links, Darrell's - Links referred to in Darrell and Gayle's Dreamweaver class
Flaming Text -
HTML Goodies
Setting Up A Web Site For Your School: An On-line Presentation - a starting point for school web site generation and management.
Visually Impaired Users - A percentage of Internet surfers are visually impaired. Whether members of this group are blind, color blind or do not have the vision they once had, it's important their needs are recognized.
Web-Safe Colors -

Web Sites, File Storage
XDrive - Try it FREE for 15 days! Xdrive provides subscription-based service and is an easy, powerful and cost-effective way for individuals and businesses to store, access and share files.

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 Web Sites, Hosting
Angelfire - Your own site. For free. It's a great way to start out if you don't mind having an ad on your pages.
Homestead - Homestead provides the software, ad-free hosting, and services you need to build and grow your Web site - it's your complete solution!
InfoTeam - InfoTeam is proud to support nonprofit organizations by providing free and discounted web hosting.
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WebQuests
Bernie Dodge's WebQuest Portal - News and views about the WebQuest model, a constructivist lesson format used widely around the world.
Best WebQuests - Criteria for Assessing Best WebQuests
Building Blocks of a Webquest - This site explains the process for creating a webquest.
Connected Classroom WebQuest Slide Show -
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators on Webquests -
Official WebQuest Page - A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web.
Project-based Learning - A WebQuest by Linda Ullah - This is a project about project-based learning. This project is designed to teach educators what project-based learning is and how they can use it in their schools to improve student learning.
Webquest Readings and Training Materials - Overviews and Underpinnings
Taxonomy Cluster -
Taxonomy of Tasks -
Webquests: Concepts to Classroom - Welcome to WebQuests. Start here in the "Explanation" section, which is all about the CONCEPT. Then go on to "Demonstration" and the following sections, where we move from CONCEPT TO CLASSROOM!
WebQuest Ring -
Webquest Template - Based on a template from The Official Webquest page. Save the pages and open and alter them with an html editor (Dreamweaver, Composer, Etc.) to meet your needs.
Webquest Templates - from the official Webquest Page: Templates provide an easy way to get started creating your WebQuest.
Why WebQuests? -

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