Movies

//Post information, resources, and tips for disseminating research findings via movies here.//

You can say a lot in a very short film. These resources are designed to get you thinking about ways you can use technology to make powerful statements about the things you learned from your research.

=Examples=


 * **[|Cell Flix Festival]** - Online film festival for one-minute movies made with cell phones user:chericem1


 * **[|The One Minutes, Jr.] -** This collection of one-minute videos made by students in countries from around the world focuses on conceptual themes and provides good examples of how a researcher might communicate complex work in ways that are short, simple, and accessible to a wide variety of audiences. Some of the videos were even made on cell phones! Be SURE to preview them before asking students to explore them as the content of some is NOT appropriate for classroom use! user:chericem1

=Find & Share Videos=


 * [|Blinkx]
 * [|Google Video]
 * [|MovieMappr] - Find movies filmed near you
 * [| TeacherTube]
 * [| Viddler]
 * [| YouTube]

=Resources=


 * **[|Media History Project Connections Pages]** - The //Movies// and //Television// icons will take you to lists of links related to the history of those media user:chericem1


 * **[|Teach with Movies Index]** - This film index can be accessed in a variety of ways, including by age appropriateness, character development topic, subject matter, and title. Although access to the lesson plans on this site is by subscription only, the indices themselves are especially helpful in identifying potential material for classroom use. The World History/Other Cultures section will be most useful to language teachers user:chericem1

=Technical Resources=


 * **[|Digital Video Basics]** - A simple, useful set of definitions, screenshots, and tutorials to help students and teachers learn to use i-Movie user:chericem1


 * **[|DigiTales]** - A fantastic collection of web resources related to image and sound editing and other technical components of making movies. Be sure to wander through the Storykeeper's Gallery to see more examples of what is possible user:chericem1


 * **[|Eejit’s Guide to Film-making] -** This fantastic site contains simple, but comprehensive tips to help amateur movie makers with the pre-, during, and post-production process. The well-designed, nicely illustrated pre-production pages offer suggestions for generating ideas for a movie, laying out a script, structuring the action, and creating storyboards. The other pages include information on costuming, editing, lighting, shooting, and special effects user:chericem1


 * **[|Kodak: Taking Great Pictures]** - The outstanding set of tips sheets and tutorials provides information with visual examples to teach you to take excellent photos user:chericem1


 * **[|Multimedia Seeds: Exploring Audio & Video Production in the Classroom]** - A phenomenally rich site with a wealth of ideas for creative warm-up activities that can be used to prepare students to create audio and video products. It also contains project ideas and links to all sorts of quality, practical and technical resources (including thematic resources and information about how to insert video into PowerPoint, Word, and web-based documents) user:chericem1


 * **[|Visual Literacy: How Do I Make Meaning?]** - A series of modules that will help you to acquire the visual literacy skills to make a short movie. Many modules contain graphic organizers, quizzes, and downloadable checklists and templates. Click on the colored tabs to the right as well as the links in the navigation bar user:chericem1

=Tools=


 * **[|Animoto]** - Upload images and the software will analyze them, suggest music, and remix them to create an interesting video collage that you can share with others user:chericem1


 * **[|BubblePLY]** - Allows you to add speech and thought bubbles to any online video. Great for drawing students' attention to specific features of a video clip, for encouraging them to use their language skills to comment on the content of the video by having them insert them user:chericem1


 * **[|OurStory]** - FANTASTIC - upload text, photos, and videos into a simple interface to produce a chronologically sequenced timeline. Can collaborate with others, customize, and share. Choose a type of album, answer questions, it generates for you user:chericem1


 * **[|PikiStrips]** - Allows you to drag and drop photos and text to tell stories in a comic book format user:chericem1


 * **[|Slidestory]** - Allows you to overlay audio narration onto a slideshow user:chericem1


 * **[|Toufee - Create Flash Movies with the #1 Flash Movie Maker!]** - Upload video, add flash animations and effects . . .similar to Bubbleply (only available for free as a 14-day trial) user:chericem1


 * **[|Viddler]** - Allows you to upload up to 500 MB of video directly from the camera to the website, insert timed comments, tags, and share with others user:chericem1


 * **[|VoiceThread]** - Easy way to connect photos and voices--particularly useful for emphasizingAl language without ignoring visual (in FL classes, for example). Would also be great for capturing family history user:chericem1


 * **[|Windows Moviemaker]** - Free download of the software (PC only) user:chericem1

See also: Digital Storytelling, Podcasts, PowerPoint Presentations, Representing the Data, Writing up the Research

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