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Using Internet Media Resources

 
  1. How to Download Media Sources
  2. Resources for Creating Multimedia Projects
  3. Saving and Using Web Pages
  4. Searching the Internet
  5. Expanding Your Searching Toolkit
  6. Issues Associated with Internet Use

 

2. Resources For Creating Multimedia Projects

 

Clip Art Sources

    1. Celeste's Holiday Graphics    -Most of the major holiday's are represented.
    2. The American Memory Collection: Photographs, Prints, and Drawings   - Great collection from the Library of Congress.
    3. The Amazing Picture Machine    -An excellent searchable source.
    4. Flamingtext -This is a good source for clipart, pictures, banners, and animation.
    5. Lycos Image Gallery   - Be specific with your search, search for pictures and videos.
    6. Smithsonian Photo Library   - A large, excellent. and varied collection.
    7. Barry’s Clip Art Server      - This site contains clipart and animations as well as links to other top graphics links.
    8. Discovery School's Clip Art Gallery   - Discovery school now makes it easy to add graphics to your next project.  This site contains hundreds of original clip art pieces, including animations.
    9. Antlers in Motion - Clip art, ASCII art, and sounds of the moose and reindeer.
    10. Kid's Domain Clip Art - Free clip art for kids including toys, adoptable critters, holidays, icons, and more.
    11. Classroom Clip Art - Free clip art for use by teachers and students.
    12. Awesome Clip Art for Kids - Educators can choose from thousands of FREE clipart.
    13. D K Clip Art - Download free clipart to support class projects and activites.

Multimedia Sources

    1. Kids Image Search Tools - Contains search tools for finding sounds and pictures.
    2. Lycos/Fast Multimedia Search - Lycos’ new RichMedia Search provides a targeted search for finding pictures, movies, streams and sounds on the Internet.
    3. Ditto -  Search for images on the net.
    4. Yahoo Search - Search Yahoo  for sources of images and Video.
    5. Altavista Image, MP3/Audio, Video Sources - Search engine for a variety of multimedia resources.
    6. Webshots Gallery - Download beautiful pictures to your desktop.
    7. Multimedia Search Engines - This site has a links to a variety of multimedia search engines.
    8. Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media  - Microsoft site for clip art and media.
    9. Google Image Search - Find images from across the web, as discovered by Google's crawler-technology.
    10. Picsearch - This site searches for pictures on the web.
    11. All The Web - Find images from across the web, as gathered by AllTheWeb crawler. To image search, select the "Pictures" tab above the search box. To find video files, use the "Video" tab. Choose the "Audio" tab to find MP3 and other sound files.

Animation Sources

  1. Animation  Factory - Easily create fun and professional emails, web pages, presentations, and videos using our animated images, 3D clip art, and templates.
  2. Animation Central  -  Home of the Internet's best clipart, animations, and web graphics. This site is filled with more than 12,000 high quality, free graphics!
  3. Animations Galore - Excellent site for all types of animations in science and in other areas such as money, sports, computers, globes, flags, etc.
  4. Animation Playhouse - This site has hundreds of animations for teachers and students.
  5. Best Animations -Variety of gifs animations for science. The site gives you access to hundreds of Clip Art Images, Unique Icons, Freemovingclipart.com, Free Animated Clip Art, Photographs, 3-D, Animated Clipart, and Original High Quality Color Clipart.
  6. Flamingtext - This is a good source for clipart, pictures, banners, and animation.
  7. Free Animated Science Gifs, Clipart and Science Animations - Hundreds of gifs, clipart and science animations.
  8. Gifanimations.com - This is the Internet's original and largest collection of free animated GIFs.
  9. Frog Animated Pictures - This is your one stop online site for fun animated frog pictures! We also have other frog pictures including images for your web page and of course real frog pictures! For the special frog of all types!

Creating Web Pages

    1. Banner Generator - automatically creates a colorful banner for your homepage.
    2. Create Your Own - Learn how to make your own web page by following 8 easy steps.
    3. Filamentality - This site assists in making an educators web page!
    4. FrontPage in the Classroom - Blip and Pixel have traveled from the year 2300 to teach you how to build a webpage.
    5. Lissa's HTML Help for Kids - explains how to create your own web page including help with html, dhtml, frames, java, and more.
    6. Webmonkey Tutorial - read lessons on building webpages, try cool projects like self portraits and slide shows, or get tools for putting you stuff online.

Miscellaneous Education Curriculum Resources

    1. Michigan Department of Education
    2. Michigan Department of Education Science Links
    3. Michigan Science Teachers Association
    4. National Science Teachers Association
    5. Michigan eLibrary
    6. Sample Science MEAP Test
    7. Michigan Department of Education Grade Level Content Expectations (GLCE)
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