Videos, Movies and Animations Teachers, Schools and Students

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According to Randy, trick-or-treating is for suckers.  His quest to uncover the truth puts a damper on his pals' Halloween fun. But they discover a crusty old salt who gains Randy's admiration. Check out Shawks: Halloween Special.

BrickFilms is a community dedicated to the art of stop motion animation. Their main focus is the animation of plastic building toys, or bricks (LEGO, Mega Bloks, Best-Lock etc), which they call "brickfilms" (these films are also commonly called "LEGO Movies"). They also feature other types of animation, including 3D and Flash. On this site you will find a searchable directory of hundreds of films, contests, a busy forum, and great resources to help animators of any level in the creation of their movies.

AARP The Magazine's web site has a feature called the "DocYOUmentary Maker" that is pretty cool. DocYOUmentary Maker enables you to be the director of your own life story. By choosing, editing, and narrating video clips of various landmark news events, you can create a personalized film and email it to everyone you know. It has everything from the landing of the first man on the moon to the cloning of the first animal.

Do you want to see animals? We got animals...check out the video pages at the San Diego Zoo - in addition to various new spotlighted videos, the video archive has a great collection. Also, check out the Panda Cam and the Polar Bear Cam. There's even a special page dedicated to videos of baby animals. Who'd believe that baby Warty Hogs could be so cute?. And as you would expect, there is a whole section of panda videos.  There's even a section with a bunch of cool educational video games - see if you can find the camouflaged animal.

Want to go to the beach and find out more about the ocean and wildlife?  Got the oceanography or aquarium bug and looking for Nemo? Check out www.racerocks.com to access high bandwidth live video from 3 live videocams along with many additional resources.  Race Rocks is a set of small islands and intertidal and subtidal reefs located just south of Vancouver Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Race Rocks, a Canadian Marine Protected Area is managed by the staff and students at Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific. An important component of the program is using Apple technology to provide live and archived video for student investigations in Biology and Environmental Systems. The Apple Learning Interchange is providing the distribution network making it possible for thousands of student connections per week. 

Kids, have you ever wondered just who does what on a film? What are the roles of the various technicians and professionals.? Check out the short film, "Filmmakers of the Next Generation" by Peter John Ross, Chancellor at Sonnyboo Films. This is a very cute little film starring Peter's young relatives. Hosted at the Super 8 site.

      Do you want to know how things work? Are you a teacher looking for some great online instructional materials, a parent looking for a cool web site for your family, or just an inquisitive kid who wants to know it all? Check out BrainPOP. Targeting the K-12 arena, BrainPOP provides a bunch of short animated movies that explain demystify Math, Science, Health, Technology and English topics. Teachers can use the movies to enhance traditional classroom learning and Parents are offered a safe and informative resource for their children. This is not a free site but you can access a couple free movies ever day. 

The Apple Learning Interchange plays a major role in showcasing the exemplary content that educators are delivering in classrooms everyday through extensive use of digital video so that you can see exactly what's happening and learn from it. The vast resources at the Apple Learning Interchange are free to all and will especially be valued by faculty, administrators, staff developers, and others interested in quality educational practices in K-12 Districts, Colleges and Universities. 
The majority of content on The Apple Learning interchange is contributed by educators and others in the community.. These "authors" reach out to their peers by publishing online versions of their lessons, classroom projects and related curricula to empower educators everywhere. You'll also find engaging digital video events created by a variety of educational organizations. Electronic Field Trips often premiere as live webcasts and include content from The Field Museum, the Smithsonian, NASA, KokoTV, and the Lewis and Clark series. You might think of the Apple Learning Interchange as an online magazine where educators using Apple and other related software and hardware share resources that support quality educational practice. Because the site makes extensive use of high bandwidth QuickTime video it is essential that you have a broadband connection to the Internet.

POV OnLIne - P.O.V., public television's annual award-winning showcase for independent non-fiction films is launching PBS’s first original web-only series, P.O.V.’s Borders. This interactive, multipart series is targeted towards the millions of Americans already using their online access as a source of information and entertainment. Viewers —especially students and young people — can log on to the series at any time since the stories are on-line. more

Do your students want to make movies but don't have camcorders? Want to create your own little animated flicks but don't know how to draw? Check out 16color.com, a cool little site that enables you to create your own animated movies and share them online. It's simple and fun. Great for kids. It's amazing what you can create with just 16 basic colors.

Playing With Time is cool and fun science oriented web site with a Gallery section that features amazing short movies that demonstrate the changing world around us. You can a walk on the sliding scales of time, or go on an in-depth exploration of a place in time and find out what's happening behind the scenes. The site also includes a detailed tutorial about how you can create your own time-lapse movies. Definitely worth checking out!

Goosehead - a web site by teenagers and for teenagers (with a little help from corporations like NBC, MGM and Richard Dreyfuss. 

Youthquake - a streaming TV show for teenagers. It airs live on Tuesdays at 7:30 central. However, there are are over 35 past shows archived on the web site. It is available in both video and audio streams. The show covers a variety of youth centered topics like music and snow boarding , but, it also covers more serious items such as skin cancer. 

Your student like animals? - click on the Kid Explorers site to see a bunch of cool animal videos. 

Here are four great videos from Pocket Cinema. You can download them in a variety of formats depending on your Internet connection and how much patience you have.

Fixing the Street - Are your little ones mesmerized by the big yellow construction equipment working on the side of the road? `Fixing the Street` is an up-close look at street repair and all of the breaking, cutting, digging and grinding it involves. Educational and fun! 

Alphabet ABCD - A great tool for teaching preschoolers the alphabet. In `ABCD,` apples, buttons, crayons and daisies fly, dance, spin and crawl across the screen to form their corresponding letters of the alphabet. With great computer-animation from the Kidjit City video. 

Dr. Pollywog Talks About Time - Doctor Pollywog may be a strange-looking scientist, but he knows about everything, even time. Time to wake up, time to take a bath, time to eat... Sometimes days, hours and minutes are confusing, so Doctor Pollywog makes learning about time fun.

Mr Spider Counts Backwards - Mister Spider`s got ten juicy flies right where he wants them, but they all buzz off before he can turn them into flyburgers. Poor Mister Spider! At least he`ll get to practice counting backwards as they fly off one by one.e including her very own  Millennium Falcon. It is terminally cute. 

It's time to visit the universe. Lock yourself down, say good-bye to the relatives and click on SpaceWander Roundtrip First Class This is not really our typical fare but this site demonstrates a new and different way to use Internet video. Plus it is really cool and even educational. Have a nice trip through the galaxy.

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