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Working With Photostory
Creating Multimedia Video Files Using Microsoft Photostory3 (From Microsoft)

Photoshop and Photostory PowerPoint

Create Videos with Free Photostory Software (Video by Bill Myers) []





Headsets Used [|Plantronics Multimedia Headset for Music, Gaming, Voice]

Photostory in Social Studies Classrooms (Article by Sara Leonard) []

Digital Storytelling and Creating Historical Documentaries
Gilder Lehrman Center - Creating Historical Documentaries []

Center for Digital Storytelling []

Digital Storyteller, University of Virginia [] Digital Storyteller is a web-based tool that offers teachers and students //frictionless// access to digital images and materials that enable them to construct compelling personal narratives. Digital Storyteller was developed as an initiative of Primary Access.

The Education Uses of Digital Storytelling, University of Houston []

Audio and Digital Image Archives
[|http://teachinghistory.org/] Funded by the U.S. Department of Education (contract number ED-07-CO-0088), the National History Education Clearinghouse (NHEC) is designed to help K-12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.
 * National History Education Clearinghouse **

[] An interactive, multimedia history of the United States from the Revolution to the present, contains content, primary sources, and images organized by topic.
 * Digital History **

[] “Teaching with Documents” includes primary source analysis worksheets.
 * The National Archives for Educators and Students **

[] "Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives," commemorates the end of the 20th century with a selection of photographs from the vast and varied holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
 * Picturing the Century **

[] Contains numerous historical thinking exercises using digital photographs for middle and high school students.
 * Picturing Modern America **

[] One of Teaching with Historic Places' primary offerings is a series of classroom-ready lesson plans. Created by National Park Service interpreters, preservation professionals, and educators, these lessons use historic sites to explore American history.
 * Teaching with Historic Places **

[] The VCDH promotes the teaching and learning of history using digital technologies. The Center’s digital collections include: The Valley of the Shadow which explores life in two American communities, one Northern and one Southern, from the time of John Brown's raid through the era of Reconstruction, Virtual Jamestown, Television News of the Civil Rights Era, The Geography of Slavery, and the Dolly Madison Project.
 * Virginia **** Center **** for Digital History **

[|http://memory.loc.gov] Collections of images on such topics as the Western United States, woman's suffrage, the Texas border, the Spanish American War, small town life in the Middle Atlantic states, the San Francisco earthquake, Presidents and First Ladies, prairie settlement in Nebraska, New York City, Jazz, the natural environment, and the Great Plains.
 * American Memory **

[] NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated [|manuscripts], historical [|maps] , vintage [|posters] , rare [|prints] , [|photographs] and [|more].
 * New York Public Library Digital Gallery **

[] The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you.
 * National Archives and Records Administration **

[] Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System embarked on this cooperative project to initiate a northeast Massachusetts digital library. This initiative was intended to create a central access point for digital library resources in the region.
 * Digital **** Commonwealth **** Central Repository **

Access an annotated list of links to publicly accessible databases.
 * Internet Resources for U.S. History: Audio, Media, Images, Text, and Archives from the University of Delaware ** []

[] A nonprofit digital image library for education and scholarship.
 * Artstor **

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 * Audio **

=Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines= Copyright and Fair Use for Teachers Presentation, Media and Education Lab []

Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers, California Student Media Festival []

The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education, Center for Social Media at American University []