Lesson Plans | Storyboards | Tutorials | Audacity | Sound files

Summer ESS 2008
Diversity: The Key is Me

Lesson Plans For Cultural Heritage Stories

• Lesson Plan for Studying Your Family's Culture

• Sample Heritage Videos
  2004 Coming to California Contest Winners
  (Potato Story)
  2008 Coming to California Contest Winners
  Mi Abuela

• How to Create Your Story

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Storyboards

• For a great lesson to help students learn to storyboard  (Remember, the DVD for Monsters Inc includes sample storyboards in the "extras" section.)

• Storyboarding Planning Sheet for Students

• Storyboard with audio lines beneath each slide

• Storyboard with additional resources listed

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PhotoStory 3 Download and Tutorials

• Free PhotoStory3 Download
  (tutorial)
   

• Anne Smith's (CRA at Sunset Hills) Handouts:
  PhotoStory Basics and PhotoStory Easy Steps
   

• Mark Coffman's WindowsPhotoStory.com: http://www.windowsphotostory.com/Guides/
  Beginner/importing-and-arranging-pictures.aspx
   

• David Jakes from Downer's Grove Illinois has a great intro to PhotoStory3 with screenshots.  (Very detailed...11 pages) http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory.pdf
   

• Brad Rankin from Shawnee Mission schools in Kansas posted a PhotoStory PowerPoint handout with links to some valuable resources on the last page: handout for PhotoStory 3.
   

• Photos for educators can be found in United Streaming and at this link in EdTech Central: Free Music, Photos, and Video Clips
   

• Additional links to free images and music including the Smithsonian and Library of Congress

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Audacity Download and Tutorials

• Audacity is a great, free, open source software for recording and editing sounds to add to your videos or slide shows. You can download it for free at this link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

• You MUST ALSO download the Lame MP3 encoder  (You need Lame MP3 encoder to export MP3s from Audacity. You only need to link to it once)

Instructions for downloading Audacity and Lame MP3 encoder   Instructions for linking Lame MP3 encoder and Audacity the first time you export an MP3 from Audacity   Steve's link to Doug Warsham's tutorial for Audacity: http://lss.wisc.edu/~doug/audacity/   Another great tutorial for Podcasting with Audacity: http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/17-audacity-tutorial.htm

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Sound Files

• Sound Files from Hall Davidson (Hall's Site)

• A great website to build music on MACs or PCs: www.findsounds.com

• http://www.freeplaymusic.com

• http://www.archive.org/details/etree

• www.smartsound.com

• www.naturesongs.com

• enature.com/audio/audio_home.asp

• www.freemusicdir.com

• www.freeaudioclips.com/categories.php?cat=2&cat_name=Classic%2FHard%2

• www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.html (free stuff in corner)

• www.kididdles.com/mouseum/index.html (email for permission)

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