Multimedia


[|BioInteractive Video]  

[|Cooliris] A browser plugin that transforms searching for photographs into an amazing visual experience.

[|Free Art and Music from Needle Works Pictures] Find royalty-free music and images that will make your multimedia projects fly!

[|GIMP] Don't have Photoshop? Try this full-featured, high-end “image manipulation program,” GIMP. It is open source and free to download and use. It’s also great for advanced techniques. Place the program on a CD or memory key for students to take home.

[|National Geographic's MapMachine]  Map Machine is a dynamic atlas that allows students to search nearly any place on Earth and then look up historical, weather, population, or other maps on the spot. Users can use street maps to zoom thier way to the destination, then switch to satellite view with a simple click.

[|Picnik] This amazing online photo-editing program makes it easy for beginners who are learning to crop or eliminate red-eye, but it’s also sophisticated enough for the more advanced user, offering some cool artistic effects even in the free version.  [|Teachers' Domain] Teachers' Domain, a Pathways project of the National Science Digital Library, is an online multimedia resources that offers over 1,000 audio & video segments, documents, & lesson plans for teachers and student-oriented activities.

[|Visible Earth] Take a trip with NASA! This site is the catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet. The students can see pictures of the deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil, fires in northern Washington, Earth's city lights, and more