Files

Freeplay music files (right click and save to your computer to use)

• 10 seconds
  • Jolt
  • Worldwide
• 15 seconds
  • Stonehenge
  • Rumba Chicki
• 20 seconds
  • My Dog Blue
  • Political Attack
• 30 seconds
  • Abandoned
  • Topaz

Pictures

• still photos
  • Buffalo
  • Cliff
  • Coffeepots
  • Domes
  • Monk
  • Sunset
  • Tiger
• animated gifs
  • Fish
  • Skiing
  • Tree
  • Zidane
  • Zipper
• powerpoint
  • Sample Powerpoint to use (Office 2007)
  • Sample Powerpont to use (pre Office 2007)

Software

• Audacity
• Pivot

Links

There are a million-and-one websites out there with tutorials on all these programs. What follows are just a few of the ones I came across that I thought might provide some extra reference:

Tutorials posted on You Tube:

• Photo Story
• Movie Maker
• Uploading to YouTube
• Audacity Part 1 and Part 2

Movie Maker:

• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx (Microsoft instruction site)
• http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/moviemaker2 (Video tutorial series)

Audacity:

• http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (program download)
• http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/63/Intro_to_Audacity.aspx (tutorial)
• Places to find sound files
  • http://freeplaymusic.com/
  • http://www.soundsnap.com/
  • http://www.archive.org/details/audio
  • http://ccmixter.org/

Pivot:

• http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/10/pivot-stick-fig.html (a blog entry about kids and pivot)
• http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/ict/animations/pivot/Pivot_Stickfigure_Animator.doc (a word document about using the program)

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