Multimedia Resource Guide
for use in
Multimedia Design and Presentations

 

Name of Site: Power Pointers
URL: http://www.PowerPointers.com
Intended Audience: For anyone interested in creating more effective presentations. Both beginners and more advanced "power pointers" will find something useful here.
Description of Site: A collection of articles about planning and building effective multimedia presentations
Name of Site: Flaming Text
URL: http://www.flamingtext.com
Intended Audience: For any webpage builder
Description of Site: A collection of headings, buttons, arrows, bullets, dividers, fonts, and clip art to download.
Name of Site: Pics 4 Learning
URL: http://www.pics4learning.com
Intended Audience: Teachers and students creating multimedia presentations
Description of Site: A copyright-friendly images library for teachers and students.
Name of Site: Rubistar
URL: http://rubistar.4teachers.org
Intended Audience: Teachers
Description of Site: This site lets you create rubrics for all kinds of projects, including multimedia.
Name of Site: Media Builder
URL: http://www.mediabuilder.com/
Intended Audience: For anyone creating multimedia presentations
Description of Site: A collection of 3D clipart, backgroundsand online tools.
Name of Site: Graphicsland
URL: http://www.graphicsland.com/powerpoint-templates.htm
Intended Audience: "PowerPointer" who are looking for more unique templates outside of the Microsoft collection
Description of Site: Download 36 different templates in one file.
Name of Site: Scoring PowerPoint
URL: http://www.fno.org/sept00/powerpoints.html
Intended Audience: Teachers who have students build PowerPoint presentations
Description of Site: Avoid "PowerPoint-less-ness" by visiting this site, by Jamie McKenzie who gives lots of information about how to focus student' attention on content of their presentations, rather than sounds, animations, and images.
Name of Site: PowerPoint Tutorials
URL: http://www.electricteacher.com/tutorial3.htm
Intended Audience: Beginner "PowerPointers"
Description of Site: A nice tutorial for beginners, with links to common tasks within PowerPoint.
Name of Site: The Midi Farm
URL: http://www.midifarm.com
Intended Audience: For anyone creating multimedia presentations
Description of Site: Browse over 12,000 midi files to download and insert into your presentations.
Name of Site: Web Builders' and Multimedia Resources
URL: http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/webbuilder/copyright.html
Intended Audience: For teachers having students create multimedia presentations
Description of Site: Learn all about the copyright laws concerning multimedia and web design.
Name of Site: Design Gallery Live
URL: http://dgl.microsoft.com/
Intended Audience: For anyone creating multimedia presentations
Description of Site: A comprehensive collection of images for download
Name of Site: iMatrix
URL: http://imatrix.flalearningalliance.org
Intended Audience: Teachers and students creating multimedia presentations
Description of Site: A site where you can create multimedia presentations using images, sounds, and movies. (Developed by a TICG Grant)
Name of Site: The Amazing Picture Machine
URL: http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
Intended Audience: For teachers and students creating multimedia presentations
Description of Site: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory's index to graphical resources on the internet.
Name of Site: Web Museum
URL: http://www. ibiblio.org/wm/paint
Intended Audience: For anyone creating multimedia presentations or teachers who want to incorporate art/art history into the classroom
Description of Site: A collection of famous paintings arranged by artist or themes.
Name of Site: de Young
URL: http://www.thinker.org/deyoung
Intended Audience: For anyone creating multimedia presentations
Description of Site: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco hosts over 82,000 images on the web.