A very powerful animation tool, very flexible and fully featured. Much steeper learning curve than the other options tagged. Easy to embed or download the result. Top end product, very flexible.
Dvolver creates creativity tools. Have you ever wanted to direct your own movie? No problem. Our MovieMaker helps you make a movie in a few simple steps. When your opus is complete send it to a friend. Or, post it to your website or myspace page. No easy way to download currently but embeds well
Create a text based, comic style movie with simple animation. Its very simple, quick and effective. No easy download at this stage or character voices but very easy to use.
Over 7,000,000 educational videos.
WatchKnow website for finding educational videos for the classroom. This is also a great place to locate videos that you may want to download and incorporate into a Notebook lesson file.
This site is maintained by the users and organized in a way that can really help teachers find relevant videos for the classroom. I also like the rating system that is used to help teachers make a educated decision on what videos to review.
Excellent site to grab movie clips, great search capabilities. Eg can search for characters/ mood/ setting etc. Excellent resource. Need to download clips at home as proxies currently appear to block.
This is an excellent resource and one which i use with my schools very often.
The examples are good, and it also provides a scaffold for Microsoft Word that you can download.
http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/ is also made by the same person and is worth a look.
An excellent PDF explaining how to get the most out of Google Search. A good idea might be to print out a few copies of this and put it on the wall near your desktop computers? Similar posters relating to other google tools can be found here: http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html