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Media Literacy

Articles - More thoughts and ideas

I See What You Mean - A Primer for Educators
http://www.accessart.org.uk/iswym/index.html

The aim of this online resource is to be inspiring, interactive and useful, and to provide teachers with access to ideas that explore the relationship between literacy and visual arts. To enable teachers of all cycles and museum and gallery educators to actively develop their practice through exchange of ideas and experiences.

Media Literacy: A definition...and more
http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/rr2def.php

Think. Interpret. Create. How Media Education Promotes Critical Thinking, Democracy, Health, and Aesthetic Appreciation
http://www.ciconline.com/Enrichment/MediaLiteracy/
ThinkingCritically/default.htm

Students Find Their Voices Through Multimedia
http://www.glef.org/php/article.php?id=Art_980

Eager to Learn
http://www.glef.org/php/article.php?id=Art_1047&key=137

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Sources of Media - Copyright Free or Copyright Friendly Content
(Please read and respect the terms of use for each of these sites.)

Advertising

CCA4 Kids
http://cca-kids.ca/who/index.html

Image Banks

Images Canada
http://www.imagescanada.ca/index-e.html

Images Canada provides central search access to the thousands of images held on the websites of participating Canadian cultural institutions. Through Images Canada, you can find images of the Canadian events, people, places and things that make up our collective heritage.

NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
http://nix.nasa.gov/

NASA images generally are not copyrighted. You may use NASA imagery, video and audio material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits and Internet Web pages. This general permission does not include the NASA insignia logo (the blue "meatball" insignia), the NASA logotype (the red "worm" logo) and the NASA seal.

Pics4Learning - Copyright Friendly Images for Education
http://www.pics4learning.com/index.php

The Pics4Learning collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting in print, multimedia, and video productions. The original photographers of each image retain the copyright to these images and have graciously allowed their use in this collection.

Picto - Banque d'illustrations gratuites
http://www.picto.qc.ca/

An image bank designed for educational use. Searchable by keyword and organized by theme (in French).

Le Québec en images
http://www.ccdmd.qc.ca/quebec/

This site offers Internet users thousands of images of the regions of Quebec. Its primary aim is to provide much-needed access to royalty-free pictures for educational uses. The user must always mention the photographer's name and the picture's source (Quebec en images, CCDMD).e.g. Olivier Lamarre, © Le Québec en images, CCDMD.

Sound

Freeplay Music
http://www.freeplaymusic.com/licensing/termsofuse.php

For educational, non-commercial use (limited to school grounds and classroom - non broadcast) Freeplay's musical compositions and recordings may be used (broadcast, synchronized and/or copied) without fee. These reproduction rights, known as master synchronization rights, are absolutely FREE and are granted in perpetuity, provided Freeplay is accorded appropriate screen credit as follows, on a most favored nations basis with all other music providers: "Music Provided By www.freeplaymusic.com".

Opsound - Open Sound Resource
http://opsound.org/opsound.html

Opsound is a record label and sound pool using an open source, copyleft model, an experiment in practical gift economics, a laboratory for new ways of releasing music. All sound files in the pool are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (a copyleft license similar to those used in the free and open source software communities) or placed in the public domain.The Attribution-ShareAlike license requires only that you attribute the works to their original authors/musicians (attribution), and that any derivative works (anything you make using the sound files) be licensed under the same license (share alike).

TicTac
http://204.19.128.12/tictac/getaz.php

TicTac offers a bank of sounds that may be downloaded in MP3 and WAV formats. They are copyright free for educational use. The sounds are organized by theme and alphabetized (in French).

Video

Prelinger Archives
http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php

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Media Production

The AD Factor
http://www.open2.net/adfactor/index.htm

Use this website to explore the three stages of the advertising process: the pitch, the creative and the rollout.

Citizen shift - Free Range Media for the 21st Century
http://citizen.nfb.ca/onf/info

Drawing Together (Age 8+)
http://www.accessart.org.uk/drawingtogether/

This online workshop is designed to help students to make storyboards and animate their drawings.

Principles of Graphic Design
http://www.mundidesign.com/presentation/index2.html

A graphic design primer produced in Flash by Mundi Design Studios. Can be viewed online or downloaded to your computer.

Web Color Theory
http://www.mundidesign.com/webct/webct.html

This useful online tool designed in Flash by Mundi Design Studios allows you to experiment with web-safe colours to help you choose a colour palette for your website.

Student Media Productions

Artlab - Bournemouth Media School Centre for Creative Media Research
http://www.artlab.org.uk/projects.htm

iPoetry: Modern Interpretation of Classic Poetry
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1001135/

In this project, students gain exposure to classic poetry and create a personal interpretation of a poem using a modern format. Because students are interested in music and movies, including these elements in a poetry lesson gives them a sense of ownership of the final product and, hopefully, an increased interest in poetry.

Just Think
http://www.justthink.org/

Just Think teaches young people to understand, evaluate, and create media messages, delivering programs that foster critical thinking and creative media production. It promotes media literacy as a key means of countering media stereotyping. This approach encourages openness and objectivity and fosters tolerance, understanding, and respect.

Listen Up! Youth Media Network
http://www.pbs.org/merrow/listenup/

Listen Up! is a youth media network that connects young video producers and their allies to resources, support, and projects with the goals of developing the field and achieving an authentic youth voice in the mass media.

Movie making for kids
http://www.moviemaking.ecsd.net/

This is a telecollaborative project involving all of the classes at St. Monica and St. Mary. The challenge was to create a one to two minute video/movie related to one or more of the following subjects:  technology, math, social studies, science, language arts, art, music, drama, health, physical education, religion or any study covered in school. The kindergarten and grade one students were involved in every step of the movie making from storyboarding to video editing and are excited to share their finished projects online.

Ultrabug Cliposcope
http://onfjeunesse.ca/showcase/en_html/home_e.html

Students can direct their own animated film clips using the Cliposcope online interactive software.

Tutorials

Apple Support - iMovie Tutorial
http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/tutorial/

Adobe - Digital Kids Club
http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/main.html

Intro to digital photography
http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/intro/main.html

Intro to digital video
http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/intro_video/main.html

Digital media tips
http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/tips/main.html

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