Help for teachers and students using Multimedia

Designing, Producing and Assessing Multimedia Projects An easy to read breakdown of key elements in multimedia projects. It’s in outline format and presented in a slide show including evaluation techniques.

Getting the Best for Your Multimedia Projects A website which gives you questions to get focused and then a step by step guide to creating a project. It includes a rubric and resources.

Using Hyperstudio A breakdown of the step by step process to using Hyperstudio. It even includes the graphics of a pull-down menu bar so you can see how exactly to do it.

Getting Started Using PowerPoint This site was created at the University of Pittsburgh and is a helpful step by step guide to creating a PowerPoint. It takes you through the steps and shows examples of the screen you will be seeing.

Acadia University PowerPoint Resource Center A reference center for anyone using PowerPoint including links to sound, video and graphics archives.

Kids• Cool Animation This website offers animation tutorials, links to creating an animated webpage, animated art galleries and more.

Free Backgrounds.com A free resource for providing the design of pages.

Web Wizard•s Castle A site designed for kids interested in making a webpage. It has a chart from which the student can choose the information he needs. The chart ranges from FONT to TABLES and CELLS to ROLLOVERS.

For Teachers Using Multimedia

Classroom Connect A website which provides k-12 educators with web-based curriculum as well as professional development opportunities. Make the Internet a reality in your classroom.

Teacher Tid Bytes It’s divided into teacher web resources, web-integrated lesson plans and tutorials for teachers and students.

NISD Instructional Technology Several examples of using technology integrated projects in science, language arts, mathematics and social studies.

Using Hyperstudio with Your Existing Curriculum This site includes handouts for terrified teachers, examples of Hyperstudio projects done in the classroom. It also provides links to Hyperstudio resources such as how to use the template and a tutorial.

For Teachers and Students &emdash; Copyright Concerns

Art Rights and Wrongs A Webpage created by elementary students which puts copyright on a clearer level for students. It’s divided into categories about trademarks, counterfeiting, licensing information and how to write a request to use work.

The Educators' Lean and Mean No FAT Guide to Fair Use Information as well as more resources on the topic of copyright. It comes complete with a quiz at the end.

Copyright Implementation Manual This site created by Groton public schools provides information and links to Fair Use sights as well as copyright resources for teachers.