Instructional Materials

Research and Evaluation

Four Nets to better searching: Shows you four techniques to improve your searching skills on the internet.

Seven Steps to better searching: These are the predecessors tot the Four NETS, but some of the techniques still work.

Choose the best search for your information needs: This site gives the student slinks to various search engines based on what they are looking for.

Kidsclick work of Web Searching: This site has a more kid friendly approach to searching techniques.

Spiders apprentice: This site offers student steps to follow in searching and ranks the search engines.

Boolean Machine: Show student how Boolean searches work.

ABC's Of web site evaluation: Gives kids 26 things to look for on a website to judge validity.

Ten C's for evaluating Internet Sources: Gives kids 10 rules to use in determining validity of a site.

Evaluating Internet Resources: This site is a great source of information on website validation. It even has links to sites that student can use to practice their validating skills.

Audio Editing

Audacity download: This site has several links to download audacity.

Audacity Tutorials: This site has tutorials on how to use Audacity.

FreeAudioClips.com: This site has free audio that might be used in the presentations.

Sounddogs.com: Downloadable songs, and sound clips.

SoundEffects.com: Free sound effects.

Activstudio

AtomicLearning: Has several tutorial session on how ot use Activstudio

Movie Maker

AtomicLearning: Several tutorials on how to use moviemker.

MightyCoach.com: MovieMaker 2 Tips and tricks.

Moviemaker 2: Download Movie Maker 2

Moviemaker 2..6: Download the newest version of Movie Maker for vist

Photostory

Photostory 3 download: Get Photostory 3

Photostory Tutorials. PFD Document.