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Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is as realistic as possible.

Advantages of Artweaver

• Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils…
• Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.
• Transparency and Layers support.
• Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic.
• Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD.
• Pen Tablet support
• Support for many languages
• Artweaver is Freeware.
• And much more…

International Futures (IFs) is a large-scale, long-term, integrated global modeling system. It represents demographic, economic, energy, agricultural, socio-political, and environmental subsystems for 183 countries interacting in the global system. The central purpose of IFs is to facilitate exploration of global futures through alternative scenarios. The model is integrated with a large database containing values for its many foundational data series since 1960. Through this web site IFs is freely available to users both on-line and in downloadable form.

http://www.ifs.du.edu/

SAM Animation is software designed to allow students to create stop-action animations to share their ideas and understanding. The application provides a unique experience for students to show their understanding of projects in mathematics, science, english languge arts, social studies and more. Best of all it’s free!

Platforms – Windows and Mac

http://www.samanimation.com/

Shape Collage creates a collage by taking a collection of photos and arranging them so that they form a shape (defined by an image or the text you enter). When arranging the photos, they will be spread apart as far as possible so that one can see each photo.

Download (329 kb)

I used WSD as the template for the collage, click on the thumbnail to see the complete image.

Photoscape is a very powerful, relatively easy to use application which offers many interesting options. It’s a combination photo editor, collage creator, image splitter, the list goes on, and on…  The interface can be a little daunting (features, features, features), but once you get use to it I doubt you’ll want to give it up, it’s absolutely phenomenal – and it’s FREE (no nag screens, no placed advertisements)!

Key Features

• Viewer: View your folders photos, slide show
• Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, back light correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming
• Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos
• Page: Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame
• Combine: Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally
• Animated GIF: Make one animation photo with multiple photos
• Print: Print portrait shot, carte de visite, passport photo
• Splitter: Divide a photo into multiple parts
• Screen Capture: Capture your screen shot and save it
• Color Picker: Zoom in screen on images, search and pick the color
• Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode
• Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG

Download (from WSD) – New version 3.3

Where does videography fit in the curriculum…

• MECY – K-8 Interactive Continuum
  
• Student friendly K-8 Continuum
  
• Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy – Digital
• Senior Years LwICT 9-12 Framework

Windows Movie Maker – WMM Resources

Effects for Windows Movie Maker – XP

• Most of the above effects were downloaded from:
  • http://nickswmmsource.windowsmoviemaker.info/index.php

Transitions for Windows Movie Maker – XP

• Set 1 – A set of 8 transitions with various designs.
  • Download Set 1 – 2.06 MB
• Set 2 – Another set of 8 transitions with various designs.
  • Download Set 2 – 1.23 MB
• Set 3 – A set of 16 transitions using fractal designs. These transitions have color and the fractals are provided by Neophyte of the forums. The transitions and fractal images in this set can be used for personal, non-commercial purposes only!!
  • Download Set 3 – 4.66 MB
• Most of the above transitions were downloaded from:
  • http://nickswmmsource.windowsmoviemaker.info/index.php

Chroma Key (Blue or Green Screen) Transitions for Movie Maker – XP only

• This set of 14 transitions allows one to use blue or green screen techniques within Microsoft Movie Maker.
  • Download Set – 47 kb

Converting Movie Maker to Other Formats

• WinFF (WinFF provides an easy to use interface for FFmpeg) (Ver 1.04)
• http://winff.org/html/index_html

Making a DVD Using Movie Maker Files:

DVD Flick is a simple to use, but powerful DVD Authoring tool. It can take a number of video files and turn them into a DVD for playback on a DVD player, or computer. It allows one to add additional custom audio tracks, subtitles, and an easy to navigate menu.

• DVD Flick – Download version 1.3.0.6 – 12 MB
  • http://www.dvdflick.net/

ImgBurn is a very powerful, and fairly easy to use tool which allows one to burn in multiple disk types: DVD, HD DVD, Blue-Ray, CD (many formats)

• ImgBurn
  • http://www.imgburn.com/

Photography Tools

• Paint.net
  • http://paint.net/

Videography – BLMs

• Storyboarding Templates
  • WSD Template – 2 frames, no lines
  • WSD Template – 2 frames, lined
  • WSD Template – 1 frame, no lines

• Word List(pdf)
  • Videography word list

• Posters (pdf)
  • Crew positions
  • 10 Steps
• Shots List from the British Film Institute
  • Shot list (pdf)

Videos

Final Cut – 10 Steps to Making a Video – Download

http://blogs.wsd1.org/etr/files/media-smarts.flv

Media Smarts: Kids Learn How to Navigate the Multimedia World – Download

Link to the video on Edutopia

Comic Life makes it easy to create comics, graphic novels, manga, picture albums, story books, and more. Comic Life provides professional templates for instant, and impressive layouts.

• MacInstruct
• Comics In the Classroom.net
• Comics In the Classroom.net – Lesson Plans
• Comics In Education
• Comics In Education – Print Resources

• Drawing
  • Inkscape
    (very powerful drawing application – open source)
  • Inkscape Videos
  • Dia (similar to Visio – open source)
• Paint
  • Paint.NET
    (very powerful paint program – free)
• Interior Design
  • Sweet Home 3D
    (Free interior design application, place furniture on a house 2D plan, preview in 3D.)