Photo Story

Presentation software that is easy to use - create eye-catching effects with ease. Slideshows of still images can be saved as audio/video files (.avi .mpeg etc). Great for animation effects.

Sound and Video Resources

Useful resource sites for sound and video:

Moviewavs - contains freely downloadable sound files from TV shows and Films
SmokeCDs - free music samples in MP3 sound file format
Becta Digital Video Award - winners video clips
BritishPathe - British Pathe news archive
iStopMotion - animation examples in education
BT Education - Internet Radio kit for schools
Digital Stories - Mini movies from the BBC. Films made by local people using photos, video clips and personal items to tell stories from their lives.
Digital Video - a short course in how to make digital video
Onion Street - The BBC music room, the place to make, talk and listen to music
E-Jay - Music making software
Freesound Project - free sounds
f7sound.com - more free sounds
BookBox - Hear and see authors reading extracts from their books

Podcasting in schools

A useful link to a site that demonstrates how podcasts can be used in school.

http://www.recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/

An example site with Digital Stories made by secondary aged school children in America.


Radiowaves is an Education company providing services to enable you to publish pupils audio/video work on-line:

1. To listen to the stations created by students in UK schools click on the links below:
Special Schools
Hillside School in Fife
Ashleigh Air in Tyne and Wear
Great Ormond Street Hospital School in London
Radio Riverside a Study Support Centre in Cleveland

Full List of all schools Radiowaves sites

2. To read the Learning Teaching Scotland case study on Hillside's
Radiowaves activity click here:


3. To take part in Videowaves beta go to:
http://beta.videowaves.co.uk/login.asp

The password you need is videotrial