Multimedia

**Multimedia Resources**

 * 1) **Smartboard** Resources
 * 2) Excellent resources for all subjects for grades 6-8 ([|link]) and 10-12 ([|link])
 * 3) Check out the Smarboard Exchange where teachers share resources ([|link])
 * 4) Wiki containing directory of resources (link)
 * 5) More Smartboard resources ([|link])
 * 6) Special search engines just for Smartboard notebooks ([|link1]) ([|link2])
 * 7) Top Diigo users with the most Smartboard tags ([|link1]) ([|link2]) ([|link3])
 * 8) Create a free professional looking online **book** ([|link]) //only costs money if you have them printed//
 * 9) See sample ([|link])
 * 10) Free images and sounds ([|links])
 * 11) **Virtual Fieldtrip**
 * 12) Students can "visit" important places without actually travelling to them. Virtual fieldtrips use a combination of text, audio, video, and 3D simulations to make the trip more interesting than simply reading about the faraway place. Here are two lists of sample virtual fieldtrips ([|list1], [|list2]).
 * 13) Students create their own virtual fieldtrip as a project. They need images and historically accurate information. The virtual fieldtrip could be used by subsequent classes or younger grades to provide additional authenticity.
 * 14) Create a ficticous place based on histocially accurate information and have students design the structures, maps, images and descriptive information.
 * 15) **Probability**
 * 16) Use a programming tool to test the probabilities of a games of change like poker or roulette.
 * 17) Use a programming langauge to program a popular game to run continuously and determine the best strategy. One example would be find the best strategy to win the game of Monopoly.
 * 18) **Concept Maps**
 * 19) Provide a visual and flexible way to sketch complex or interrelated concepts
 * 20) Excellent tool to add relevancy to simpler topics if the map is added to in future grades
 * 21) **Voicethread.com**
 * 22) Students create a brief instructional video
 * 23) Collect observations from a science experiment
 * 24) Collect opinions about a historical event or leader
 * 25) Collect opinions about a political cartoon
 * 26) Collect different potential endings to the same story
 * 27) Have students comment on a visual prompt using a foreign language
 * 28) Have students leave comments for a school in another state or country
 * 29) Here is a list of other creative ways to use Voicethread in the classroom ([|link])
 * 30) **Images**
 * 31) **Gigapan.org**
 * 32) Very high resolution photographs for virtual field trips or science.
 * 33) Give these beautiful images ([|link]) of major cities at night and ask your students to identify them
 * 34) Potential art project is to show the kids only one half of a picture and have them draw the other half.
 * 35) Here is an example ([|link])
 * 36) **Google Map & Google Earth**
 * 37) Create a virtual field trip to one or more places and embed relevant videos and images.
 * 38) Trace the life of a famous person
 * 39) Plot the lives of two different people and determine to what extent geography influenced their lives
 * 40) Trace the locations visited by a season of CBS's Amazing Race
 * 41) or make up your own thematic race
 * 42) Students create a virtual autobiography of important events and places in their lives
 * 43) Students create a virtual tour of places they have visited
 * 44) Teachers have created virtual roadtrips to mirror famous sites in literature. They use Google Earth and with images at major sites ([|link])
 * 45) Award winning teacher projects for Google Earth ([|link]) and a contest to build resources for Rome ([|link])
 * 46) **Audio/Video**
 * 47) Use **Skype** ([|link]) to speak with an expert or students in another state or country
 * 48) See Skype for Dummies for ideas ([|link])
 * 49) Skype with an author to discuss his/her book ([|link])
 * 50) Great list of 50 ways to use Skype ([|link])
 * 51) See list of other Skype ideas ([|link])
 * 52) Find other teachers for a Skype (//don't forget to add yourself to the directory//)
 * 53) Skype in the classroom wiki ([|link])
 * 54) Skype in Schools wiki ([|link])
 * 55) Skype for Educators ([|link])
 * 56) The **Mixxer** is a free database of teacher loking for foreign language partners ([|link])
 * 57) Here are 75 ways to use Youtube in your class ([|link])
 * 58) Have students listen or watch audio or video from a radio station or tv channel from a foreign country
 * 59) Have students read a newspaper or magazine from a foreign country
 * 60) Have students view one of the millions of webcams ([|link]) from around the world and describe what they see in a foerign language
 * 61) Have students explore a very interesting website and have them describe what they see in a foreign labguage. An example is the NASA satellite of Earth at night ([|link])
 * 62) Have the students listen to a popular **song** and translate the words
 * 63) work with a class in another region or country to discuss the meaning
 * 64) could lead to cultural discussion if exact translation is not possible (why?)
 * 65) Sample video websites include:
 * 66) **Animoto.com**
 * 67) **Shwup.com**
 * 68) **Mixbook.com**
 * 69) **Xtranormal.com**
 * 70) **The Hero Factory** ([|link])
 * 71) **BigHugeLabs.com** has lots of cool photo tools and uses photos from **Flickr.com**. **Bookr.com** also uses photos from Flickr.com
 * 72) Visit the **iTunes** music store for free podcasts for download
 * 73) other websites for podcasts
 * 74) [|PodcastAlley]
 * 75) [|Podcastpickle]
 * 76) [|LeanoutLoud]
 * 77) Write and perform a song about a concept in math or history. The possibilities are endless.
 * 78) See this website for a rap about the U.S. Constitution ([|link])
 * 79) Publish your own **podcast**
 * 80) role-play
 * 81) real interviews
 * 82) mock historical interviews
 * 83) foreign language exercises
 * 84) field trip preview/reflection
 * 85) Go and watch an archived video/screencam of an online presentation at Classroom2.0 ([|link])
 * 86) **Cell Phone**
 * 87) text directions to students who don't usually follow them
 * 88) text questions to students and have them respond as a homemade Interactive Response System