RIMS CTAP Summer Roadshow:Podcasting with Microsoft Photo Story 3

Online Agenda and Resource Site

Download Photo Story 3 

Photo Story 3 tutorial

Podcasting links

http://podcasts.ctap10.org
RIMS CTAP staff have created a regularly-updated site with news and information about podcasting. Subscribe to the feed for the page to get updates sent directly to your RSS reader.

Audio/Video tools

http://www.imtoo.com/ipod-movie-converter.html
Imtoo is a conversion tool that allows you to convert .wmv files created in Photo Story 3 into other file types, such as Quicktime and Real player. When posting files to your website for home/school communication, it is often a good idea to use more than one file format, to ensure that parents will be able to download and play the files, regardless of their computer type.

Image sources

Calisphere

http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/
Calisphere is the University of California’s free public gateway to a world of digitized primary sources. Images are selected from the libraries and museums of the 10 UC campuses and more than 30 cultural heritage organizations. Themed collections, lesson plans, and Browse A-Z are specifically designed to support K-12 classroom needs.

Pics 4 Learning

http://www.pics4learning.com/
Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Images in the Pics4Learning collection may be used by teachers and students in print, multimedia, and video productions. The original photographers of each image retain the copyright to these images but have allowed the images to be used without permission for improving student educational opportunities.

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov
The collection of more than 130 million items includes more than 29 million cataloged books and other print materials in 460 languages; more than 58 million manuscripts; the largest rare book collection in North America; and the world's largest collection of legal materials, films, maps, sheet music and sound recordings.

Audio Sources

Digital History

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/audio/music.cfm
Digital History at the University of Houston has a repository of historical music which is in the public domain. They also link to historical music for educational use that is freely available on the web under fair use guidelines.

Jamendo

http://www.jamendo.com/en/
Jamendo has more than 10,000 albums by more than 5000 artists, all free for teachers to download, use and in some cases even edit in their classroom. Each album is labeled according to its Creative Commons licensing, whether it's attribution only, non-commercial, and/or no derivatives. You can search for music according to artist, style, and/or licensing.