Lots of video tutorials to help you use Windows Movie Maker Live (Windows 7).

Check out the two Thirsty videos.

This site is under-construction by a colleague in DECS Curriculum. This is the place to find a gold mine of resources to support your first assignment.

The place to start for an introduction for shooting better video.

In case you are using Windows 7.

A great tutorial about camera angles and composition.

Rule of thirds

Here you will find five different graphs and charts for you to consider. Not sure about which graph to use? Confused between bar graphs and pie charts? Read our: Create A Graph Tutorial

The art of making information beautiful. How do you make statistics look interesting? According to the writer and designer David McCandless, you just need to apply the rules of visual design to information. David Sillito meets him and investigates the trend of applying the rules of visual design to information in order to help us cope with the oceans of data we are bombarded with.

Furbles started life as an idea for teaching statistics in an interesting way with children from KS1 to KS3. The original version was published in 2003 online, and its popularity spread. It has been downloaded and used over 20,000 times in the last five years.

Statistics and Probability These lessons are geared toward the elementary aged students - 3rd to 6th grades. Very practical and real life problems.

"Transforming learning with interactive whiteboards: Towards a developmental framework"

The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education

Elaborations for Numeracy

The Meaning of Numeracy The complex world of the twenty-first century places demands on its citizens that require them to engage competently with an ever-increasing range of activities that have their basis in the world of mathematics. As a result, there is a rapidly growing emphasis on the importance of creating numerate school leavers. The connection between numeracy and mathematics and the tendency to use the words interchangeably can lead to confusion as they are not synonyms of each other. However, to be numerate requires mathematical skills. The term 'mathematical literacy' is becoming more widely used both in Australia and overseas and is defined by the OECD (2004) as:

student-created digital video as a pedagogical approach to achieving a variety of educational objectives.

Camera angles First some basics. The following two handouts provide a great visual orientation to the world of camera angles: Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work. This provides an orientation to camera angles in comic book genre. It appears here with Joel Johnson's permission. Camera shots, angles and Movement. This handout shoots the same doll from all the major camera angles. I don't know the origin of this one. Let me know if you do. The next section explains how the angles in these handouts can be used to persuade and convey meaning.