Last updated: 8/31/2007
Graphics, Sounds and Web Design Help
- Good Backgrounds
http://boogiejack.com - More Good Backgrounds
http://www.backgroundcity.com/ - Free Graphics Archive
http://www.ausmall.com.au/freegraf/freegrfa.htm - Large list of links to free graphics
http://www.freegraphics.org/ - One of the original graphic and banner generators
http://flamingtext.com/ - Another logo generator
http://www.cooltext.com/ - Bells and Whistles
http://www.bellsnwhistles.com/ - Good, free, original instrumental music to download.
Use this for digital video, digital story telling, and other media
projects.
http://freeplaymusic.com/ - Free Kids Music. A collection of free children's music you could use
in any media projects.
http://freekidsmusic.com/ - MIDI converter. This software will convert MIDI files to .WAV and
.MP3 so that you can use them in digital video or other media projects.
It is a trial version and can be used for only 30 conversions.
http://www.download.com/Ease-MIDI-Converter/3000-2140_4-10404245.html?tag=lst-0-2 - Unique hit counters track the number of people who go to your page.
http://www.visitorcounters.org/ - A tutorial on how to use Audacity to create audio files and podcasts.
http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/index.htm
Tools and Such
- Search Engines
http://google.com
http://yahoo.com - Build a Rubric
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php - Using Excel in the classroom
Creating Graphs in Excel
http://www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/kadkins/spreadsheet.htm - Check out hoaxes, urban legends, unlikely
sounding emails
http://snopes.com
http://www.breakthechain.org - How to make a claymation movie
http://www.sfsu.edu/~teachers/workshops/clayanimation/index.html - Claymation made easy
http://education.wichita.edu/claymation/default.html - Adobe Acrobat Reader
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Curriculum and Technology Standards
- SC Curriculum Standards
http://www.sde.state.sc.us/offices/cso/ - SC Business Ed. Curriculum Standards
http://www.myscschools.com/offices/cate/competencies/BusMktgComTech.htm - Special Education Standards: The Council For Exceptional Children
(NOTE: These are teacher standards and covered in Special Education
classes. Special Education students are to work from SC Curriculum
Standards).
http://www.cec.sped.org/ps/ - ISTE NETS-T
http://www.iste.org/inhouse/nets/cnets/teachers/t_stands.html - ISTE NETS-S
http://www.iste.org/inhouse/nets/cnets/students/s_stands.html - ISTE NETS-A
http://www.iste.org/inhouse/nets/cnets/administrators/a_stands.html
PowerPoint Presentations
- These
can be found on the RoLO (Reusable Learning Objects)
page and include all PowerPoints, Podcasts, and Vodcasts and many of the
readings for the course.
(Check your instructor's schedule for when these are used in your class.)