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Purpose of the Website: This website has a rubric available for teachers or other professionals to assess various podcasts and determine if they are appropriate for your classroom. There are a variety of questions listed that you can use to determine usefulness. The PDF is also able to be edited on the computer for convenience. Grade Level: K-12, Professional Classroom Connection: This rubric can be used by teachers, students, or other professional to identify how useful and appropriate a particular podcast is for use in the classroom. Negatives of this Website: The only downside to this website is that you are not able to edit the files. Most of the rubrics are perfect but might need a change or two depending on the particular assignment you are working on. It is great that you can fill in the form online, but you cannot edit any of the questions.

This a great resource for schools or classrooms that don't contain video editing software. As far as online video editing goes this is as good of an option as you are going to find. Students and teachers can sign up for an account and be up and editing in no time. The site contains many tutorials for how to use the online software.

Purpose of the Website: Students can get photographs from their favorite website and creatively edit the photos. This website is free. It does not require any downloads or registration. It is also available for the Android, so that would be a great way to introduce the tool in your classroom if you do not have access for the students to go to the computer lab. Students can upload a photo, apply photo or artist effects, insert frames, perform translations and reflections, etc. Grade Level: K-12 Classroom Connection: This would be a perfect tool for the art teacher that is looking to incorporate technology into their curriculum. Using this resource, art teachers can incorporate art and math by having students select a picture and create an artistic view on that photograph, as well as incorporating translations into the piece as well.

Soundation is a powerful online music studio with recordings, effects, virtual instruments and over 400 free loops and sounds. This is another great option for those student more interested in the audio side of video production. Geared more towards high school students, but could possibly be used in lower grades with a small amount of training.

Grade Level: 6-12 Create free online video, music and photo mashups. This website is great for the video production enthusiast on the go. This can not only be used in a video production classroom, but for almost any other subject as well.

This is a great resource that covers all assets of video production. I find that a number of my students come across this resource on their own every year when studying for quizzes or needing a quick refresher on any given topic. Contains many great photos and examples as well. Quizzes are available for teachers who would like to take advantage of that option.

This is a good resource for the teacher who would like their class to create a video slide show of various images. This might be a better option than using Windows Movie maker for some teachers. Students can access their video at home whether they have a PC or a Mac.

Grade Level: 5-12 AFI ScreenNation features the best films and videos from young filmmakers on the web as well video tips and contests. Films can only be submitted by students ages 11-19 years of age.

Grade Level: 6-12 I think some of my best ideas were ones that were scaffolded off of another teacher's website. This link is to a high school video production in none other than Hollywood, CA. It is set up in the style of a blog, so you can take note of daily activities in their classroom as they happen. This may or may not spark an idea in your own classroom.

This could be one option for teachers who are looking for a way to have their students post their videos online. Videos can be shared only with select people. The player could be posted on a classroom website and the video shown on it can be driven by what is submitted by the students. You can set security features so the videos won't be seen by the public. I would keep this resource limited to students in the high school level.

This website includes a great introduction to the film making process. Its broken up in to easy to navigate sections such as scripting, storyboarding, etc. Can be used in classrooms anywhere between grades 6-12. Cons: site contains advertisements.

This website is dedicated to help those students that are interested in creating films using a DSLR on a budget. First off, DSLR's are not cheap. After getting over this hump students should then be able to take advantage of all of the great advice 5D film making has to offer. A good place to start with this website is by clicking on tutorials at the top of the site. This website is more geared towards high school students.

HTV magazine is a great resource for students interested in possibly pursuing the video production field. HTV Magazine is made up of 20 junior and senior students that are selected by broadcast advisers each year. These students write the articles as well as create the videos that make up the HTV website.

Grade Level: 6-12 This is quite possibly my favorite go to website in my collection. I have been using this resource since my first day of teaching. Not only does this website offer a number of great assignments and resources, but the teacher is also quick to respond to any questions you might send his way. My first year teaching I came across this website and was in pretty regular contact with this teacher for the first couple months. I learned a solid foundation from his resources.

This website contains hundreds of music clips that students can use in their videos without worrying about copyright infringement. Clips are updated on a regular basis.

This website is a collection of videos created by the students of Mariemont High School. Watching these video might spark an idea for another teachers classroom. Videos are broken up by school year and contain a number of different topics.

Grade Level: 6-12 This website allows students to create their own music. This is great when dealing with the whole issue of copyright infringement. For students who are more interested with the audio side of video production this could be a bonus opportunity. Con: Their isn't anytime in the video production curriculum to go over new software. This would have to be something students learn on their own. Luckily the website is very user friendly.

This website is different than many that I have come across. It allows the user to choose characters, backgrounds, etc. and the dialogue. The website then takes the text and matches it up with the cartoonish characters mouth and creates a movie for you. This could be a great option for classrooms that do have the budget for digital cameras. This could be used in any grade level. however a greater amount of training would be required for younger grade levels.

This website is another resource my students use on a regular basis. It contains many great sound effects, sound bites, etc. that they can use free of charge in their videos. This website could be used in any grade level.

This website is another great example of another high schools video production program. This is also one of the first ones that I came across years ago and have been following ever since. This school is based out of the Seattle area and has won multiple awards for their videos. This site has inspired a number of projects in my classroom. It also contains many good example videos and resources.