MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE LINKS

Copyright & Fair Use:

• US Copyright Office Where better to get information on copyright than the source. An extensive list of topics that can answer any number of questions regarding copyright.
  Audience: Teachers, administrators, and upper level students
• Stanford University Library's Copyright & Fair Use Stanford University has gathered a collection of articles and links to information on copyright and fair use. This is a must read for all educators!
  Audience: Teachers, administrators and upper level students

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Clip Art & Graphics Files:

• World Atlas.Com This site has answers to any geography question. You can even email them questions. They have an extensive list of free clip art and map images. They can even customize map images if they don't have what you're looking for. This site also features a daily geography quiz. Test you skills!
  Audience: Teachers, students, geography buffs
• Classroom ClipArt This site was created with educators in mind. They have a large collection of graphics images and can be used by educators, students, and schools without fear of copyright infringement! There are thousands of images here in twenty categories.
  Audience: Teachers & students
• Discovery School Discovery Channel has some great resources for teachers. This link will take you to a variety of clip art selections and graphics. They are divided into nineteen categories and most are directly school related.
  Audience: Teachers and students

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Multimedia Software & Tutorials:

• HyperStudio Workshop This is a brief tutorial on creating HyperStudio stacks. Includes information on editing buttons, text, and graphics.
  Audience: Teachers, higher level students
• HyperStudio Tutorial This is part of the Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology. They have compiled an excellent list of information and resources on not only HyperStudio, but also many other software and multimedia formats. This particular tutorial includes information on creating tests using HyperStudio.
  Audience: Teachers
• Tips & Tricks for PowerPoint Users Included on this site are some interesting tips and suggestions for PowerPoint users. They discuss creating macros, cutting the file size, creating lines and graphics and even embossing images in PowerPoint.
  Audience: Teachers, higher level students
• More PowerPoint Templates Are you tired of the same old templates that everyone uses in Microsoft PowerPoint? If so, try some of these new templates. They will work on versions of PowerPoint 95 and on. These were produced by Microsoft, but have been gathered by Arcadia University.
  Audience: Teachers, higher level students
• HyperStudio Official Website HyperStudio is one of many hyperlink programs available for creating multimedia presentations. From this link you can download free demos of the software. Highly recommended!
  Audience: Teachers

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Sounds

• Project Cool's Adding Sounds To Your Site Project Cool has created a series of tutorials on the use of audio in webpages and multimedia presentations. It offers advise and instruction on creating original sounds as well as a lesson on copyright.
  Audience: Teachers & higher level students
• WavCentral WavCentral has an extensive list of .wav files that can be downloaded for use in multimedia presentations. Not only does this site offer music sounds, it also has a rather large listing of movie, commercial and movie sounds.
  Audience: Teachers & students
• EarthStation1 EarthStation has a rather extensive archive collection of sounds and pictures. There are some very interesting sound files here. Please note: you must have written permission from the webmaster in order to use these files!
  Audience: Teachers & higher level Students
• Library of Congress: American Memory Collection The Library of Congress has a large collection of historical sound recordings. From their homepage, click on "Collection Finder" and then on "Sound Recordings." You'll find everything from presidential inaugurations to folk music.
  Audience: Teachers & students
• Interactive Encyclopedia of Sound Ever wonder what the difference was between .wav and MP3? This site gives descriptions and audio samples of all of the different types of sound files one might encounter on the Internet. This is a rather extensive list.
  Audience: Students & teachers
• WebLust: Digital Audio Files This site doesn't have an extensive list of historical sound bites, but it does have some rather interesting ones. Robert Kennedy mourning the death of Martin Luther King with a poem, Franklin Roosevelt declaring war, and Frank Borman's Christmas greeting from space are just a few.
  Audience: Teachers & higher level Students