Karen Vitek's List: Multimedia Resources

" When most people think about YouTube they think sharing videos and or about all of the videos they can discover. Most people don't think about the useful editing tools that are built into YouTube. The YouTube video editor has some useful features for teachers and students."

"BLOSSOMS video lessons are enriching students' learning experiences in high school classrooms from Brooklyn to Beirut to Bangalore. Our Video Library contains over 50 math and science lessons, all freely available to teachers as streaming video and Internet downloads and as DVDs and videotapes."

Includes cartoon creators, drawing tools, word clouds, text tools and avatar creators.

"Not-made-for-kids videos for kids."

" Over the last few days I've featured a couple of free tools for adding interactive elements to your videos. In the last year I've reviewed a few other services and methods for doing the same thing. This is a round-up of the ways that you can add interactive elements to your videos. The first four tools could be used by students to create a series of choose your own adventure videos. These tools could be used by teachers to enhance the short videos that they create for flipped lessons."

"Do you create music & audio?

Post your sounds to share them with friends, fans and followers everywhere. Connect with the community on SoundCloud to build your audience"

"The one place to organize, present and share knowledge"

"Documentaries are used in education all the time to educate and inform students about different nonfiction topics. While there are a ton of sites to choose from, I've decide to curate this list to make it easier for educators to find what they are looking for. This list is in alphabetical order."

"Watch free documentary films online at Chockadoc.com. We have thousands of free documentary movies for you to watch and enjoy straight away. Browse, watch and enjoy our free documentaries!"

"Kids learn best when they see how things work, when, where and why they happen. Watching educational videos is a great way to learn because it allows kids to build a visual picture or model in their mind. The visual dimension not only helps them understand concepts better but also stimulates curiosity and encourages self-training."

" Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications that you can use right in your web browser. We're on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. Let Aviary and Worth1000 artists perform design services for you. Sign up for an account today to start creating, sharing, and collaborating with our community of artists. "

"The essential and compelling visual learning teaching resource for every K-12 classroom.
Provides for different learning styles
Curriculum aligned to National and State Standards
The Missing Piece! enables students to study each topic effectively PLUS improve their reading and literacy skills at the same time. Important for no child is left behind!
Enables each child to study at their own speed and thereby achieve their greatest potential."

"Welcome to the most popular
online photo editor in the world!"

"tumblecloud is a place for collaborative digital storytelling, where users can easily arrange, display, co-create, share and manipulate multimedia content."

"The days of posting a flyer around the neighborhood are over. Smore helps you create amazing pages that you’d be proud to share."

Through VuSafe, teachers can easily manage and share approved videos and other streaming content, while safeguarding students from inappropriate advertising, comments, links and other content present on sites such as YouTube.

Bring together your photos and videos to create muvees.

You know the problem: Some people took photos and someone else brought a camcorder. One guy promises to e-mail his photos and another friend plans to post hers online. The third person swears he'll send everyone a DVD, when he has time to get to it. That's why we built muvee Cloud. We make it as easy as possible for you to consolidate everyone's photos and video in a private, shared online album.

"The resources in this kit will help you implement the exciting process of digital storytelling with your students."