Learning with Digital Images and Video

An Annotated List of Resources Click image above to play movie! Last Updated: July 15, 2007	Learning with Digital Images & Video Sandra A. Lathem, M.Ed. University of Vermont Email: slathem@uvm.edu Phone: 802-656-0481
Quick Links: \|\| Learning About \|\|Free Software/Tutorials \|\| Video for Teaching/Integration \|\| Digital Storytelling
Learning About Digital Video
	This is a comprehensive site that introduces teachers to the use of digital video in the curriculum. It was produced in 2002 by the Grossmont Union High School District. Sections include Student Process, Teacher Process, Equipment, and Internet Resources. The list of resources is quite good.
	From the Apple Learning Interchange web site, Videography for Educators is a complete resource of basic procedures and processes to create Quicktime movies. The site includes short movies of camera technique, and while a bit slow paced, cover the basics of videography in simple and easy lessons.
	The Digital Video Portal is a project created by Technology Across Learning Environments for New Teachers [TALENT], an initiative headed by the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. TALENT was funded as part of the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology [PT3] program. The portal contains useful information on all aspects of digital video production, from pre-production planning to finished product. It contains tutorials for editing video in iMovie, Movie Maker, Final Cut Pro, and Premiere.
	iLife How To Guides provide practical advice to users of Apple iLife products (iMove, iPhoto, iTunes).
	KidsVid includes easy to learn tips and techniques that are practical for teachers and students. The site is well-designed and easy to navigate. It won't overwhelm a novice! Check out the samples in the Theatre. *KidsVid is a project of HPRTEC (High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium). Click on the link to HPRTEC for connections to other useful teacher resources.*
	Keith Lightbody's Technology in Education Web Site is a comprehensive guide to selection and use of all types of digital cameras, videos, and associated equipment.
	Kathy Schrock's Guide to Educators, hosted as discoverschool.com, contains a page of resources concerning "digital gadgets." This is a nice assortment of links about digital cameras, digital video, handheld devices, presentation systems, and more. This page also includes links for lesson plans describing how to use digital images and video in classroom instruction.
	Learning Digitally contains tips on instructional design, digital techniques, and describes a number of commonly used digital tools. Another good resource for learning more about digital images and video production.
	Teaching & Learning with Digital Video is a site created by Greg Marten that collects many links associated with the topic of digital video and education. The site contains links to integration ideas and resources, tools, guides, hardware and software.
Free Software and Tutorials
	Creative Commons web site. Thanks to the creators of this site, educators can now tap the tremendous creative products of individuals all over the world.
	Freeplay music provides music files without cost for educational purposes and productions. There are restrictions and terms, however, so read these first.
	This link will take you to the Atomic Learning web site where you can download a FREE version of Storyboard Pro. Storyboard Pro is software (Mac and Windows versions) that allows you to plan your video and define whether the action is video, images, audio, or titles. It is easy to use, and even better, comes with the free tutorial offered by Atomic Learning.
Video for Teaching Concepts/Classroom Integration
	iLife Social Studies Gallery contains examples of student produced videos at all grade levels (elementary, middle, and high school).
	This site contains a number of videos showing how to teach mathematic concepts. Excellent use of how to illustrate concepts using real-world examples and creative teaching strategies using the novel, Gulliver's Travels.
	This site shows how students are creating videos to explain mathematic concepts and procedures. From counting numbers to high school physics. See Also This Movie from Apple -- Similar Triangles
	Students from Springfield, Illinois show off their video skills in this collection. Topics range from commercials, social studies projects, science, math, and more.
	Students impersonate great explorers in these videos, produced by fifth grade students in Millard Public Schools, Omaha, Nebraska.
	See examples of videos produced by University of Vermont Students in EDSC 11, Computers in the Secondary Education Classroom, produced during Fall 2004.
Digital Storytelling
	Center for Digital Storytelling -- Where it all began! This is an excellent source to learn about digital storytelling. The site includes links to a .pdf file for the Digital Storytelling Cookbook as well as articles about digital storytelling.
	DigiTales: This is a excellent resource that covers all aspects of the digital storytelling process, including rubrics and tools to evaluate products. The Gallery contains many fine examples of digital stories to give you ideas for your own creations.
	The Digital Storytelling web site, created by the Arizona Learning Interchange, is a good place to start when learning about digital storytelling. It contains an introduction to this new art form, gives tips on storyboarding, and contains some good examples.
	The University of Houston has created this site for its students involved in digital storytelling. This is a new site with wonderful links to background material and the different ways in which digital storytelling can be used in education.
	This e-book, The Art of Digital Storytelling, is available through Digital Media in the Classroom. You need to register to view the book, but once done, this e-book provides a wealth of links and resources about this topic.
	Tech Head Stories - Digital Storytelling has the most comprehensive list of links about digital video that I know. This site covers everything. Be sure you check out the links to The Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, California, where this new art form began. There is also a link here to Middlebury College and the work it's doing with digital storytelling.
	Digital Stories by Students and Teachers. This site contains examples of digital stories created by students and teachers and encourages people to submit their movies to this site for publication.
	Digital Directors Guild -- A good site for getting started with digital storytelling. Includes examples and "how to" information. Connects learning with digital video to standards.
	This web site hosts the winners of KQED's Digital Storytelling contest winners. I love the winner of 2004, My Potato Story by Sylvia Jeong. This is a good site for getting ideas and inspiration.
	Check out these winning digital stories from the Hawaii Island Movie Contest.
	Digital Storytelling Links from the Lakeland Central School District.
	Animation Inspirations, Apple Education Resources. Tips on how to create animated digital stories.
	Digital Storytelling Web Site from the United Kingdom. This is an intriguing site that documents the use of digital storytelling projects with ESL students. It uses motion video, blue screens, and clay animation as techniques for creating digital stories.