Digital+Video+Resources

[|www.Audacity.com] - can download this for a mac too
 * Digital Video Resources and Photography **
 * free audio editing site
 * very easy to record voice
 * Click on record button to record and then stop to finish recording
 * Click the play button to play back recording
 * Highlight part of the blue waves and then click the backspace and you can edit out some of the recording
 * Highlight part of blue wave and go to effect and then change pitch. Can move pitch to the right and it sounds like a character.
 * Can use this program to record students reading. Students listen to themselves and this helps to improve reading.
 * Students can create a radio broadcast on the topics from class.
 * Open your audio file and drag a music file underneath the audio file.
 * Use the sliders to the left to increase or decrease the volume of the music or voice.
 * Time shift Tool - double arrow tool on toolbar - use this to drag your audio file to the right or left so it matches with the music better.
 * Envelope Tool - The double triangle icon on toolbar. Click on the top and bottom of the sound tracks and then click and drag them down to decrease music volume while speaking voice is on.
 * To save - File, Export and it defaults to a .wav file
 * Can download the LAME file so you can save this to other formats besides .wav
 * Jill Baedke's [|tutorials on using Audacity] (from Rushton Hurley)
 * ======Audacity example: [|The Village Well] (from Rushton Hurley)======
 * [|The Battle] - the (copyright-friendly) James Underberg piece from PodSafeAudio (from Rushton Hurley)

[|Jamendo] - music you can use [|PartnersInRhyme] - both royalty-free and free sound effects (note the difference) [|Voice Thread] - audio blogs with images [|No-Edit Cloud Editors] - a blog post by [|Wes Fryer] on media tools [|ujam] - create your own songs with an online recording tool

[|Windows Live Movie Maker] - the download link, as it doesn't come with Windows 7 (#@?!) [|Windows Movie Makers] - a good place for all sorts-o-things Movie Maker [|Apple's iMovie Tutorials] - great starters for iMovie and [|anything else from iLife] [|VideoMaker channel on SchoolTube] - great tutorials on the next levels of video [|YouTube] - tutorials on anything search on the word 'tutorial' and the name of the software as with iTunesU, YouTube has an [|education channel] other sites for posting/embedding video: [|Vimeo], [|Viddler] [|JayCut] - online video editing [|Jing] - freeware for screencasting here's a [|Jing on using Movie Maker] [|Zamzar] - great site for converting files or grabbing YouTube videos [|DigitalWish.com] - site for teachers that allows buying Flips two-for-one
 * Videos and Video Editing**

[|Neuron Functions] - contest-winning entry that shows an interesting use of images [|Creative Commons] - copyright, public domain, and 'copyright-friendly'; [|Psykopaint] - create "paintings" from pictures [|Picnik] - online photo editing [|Irfan View] - free graphics editor and converter [|Photo Story 3] - a free program from Microsoft - really. a [|quick tutorial] Rushton Hurley put together on Photo Story [|temporary download link for Photo Story] [|Google Art Project] - great art from around the world, on your computer [|BodyBrowser] - biology will never be the same (requires very strong browser)
 * Images and Slideshows**

Information from workshop with Rushton Hurley, Free Tools, Rushton's Resources