Technology and the Modern Media Center

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.

At Google, we support teachers in their efforts to empower students and expand the frontiers of human knowledge. That's why we've assembled the information and tools you'll find on this site.

SMART Technologies, producers of the SMART board and the SMART Table, offer you user-generated and SMART-created videos of SMART's products in a variety of learning environments.

Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great. Sharing your best photos with friends and family is as easy as pressing a button!

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

Capture memories Create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. It's that easy!Bring photos to life Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions.Share your stories Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile-based portable device.

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These sites focus on how to integrate technology, specifically digital movies, in the classroom. Ideas, lesson plans, and samples of movie projects are included. An eThemes on Windows 2.1 Movie Maker is included.

List of Movie Maker Related URLs

Windows Movie Maker 2.1 makes home movies amazingly fun. With Movie Maker 2.1, you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on your computer. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete bad shots and include only the best scenes. Then share your movie via the Web, e-mail, or CD. Using third-party software you can even take movies you've made and turn them into DVDs . You can also save your movie back to the video tape in your camera to play back on a TV or on the camera itself.

Unparalleled videos made from your images. Animoto turns your images and soundtrack into stunning music videos in minutes. Free to sign up, it's fast and dead easy to make your first vid. If you've got pics, you're ready to go!

Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.

Express yourself with a lifelike 3D talking head, created from YOUR picture!

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. messages.

Persistent Links to Articles Several GALILEO vendors offer the ability to create persistent links to GALILEO articles, including the EBSCO suite of databases, the ProQuest suite of databases, Chadwyk Healey's LION, SIRS Researcher, and SIRS Discoverer.

GALILEO stands for GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online, an initiative of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. A World Wide Web-based virtual library, GALILEO provides access to multiple information resources, including secured access to licensed products. Participating institutions may access over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. Over 2000 journal titles are provided in full-text. Other resources include encyclopedias, business directories, and government publications. The community of more than 2000 GALILEO institutions includes the University System of Georgia, K-12 schools, public libraries, the adult technical institutes and colleges, and a group of private academic colleges and universities. At this time, only educational institutions are eligible to participate in GALILEO.

KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. KompoZer is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.

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Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Learn more about Audacity... Also check our Wiki and Forum for more information.