Resources for Early Childhood Conference Nov. 20th

Interactive Websites

• Tumble Books (subscription - see your Librarian for the password) 
• Starfall 
• PBSKids
• Build Your Wild Self
• Bookr - make your own digital books! Sample
• SmileBox - another source for "books", slideshows using your onwn pictures, Does require download  New Resource
• Cute Cartoon Creator - you only need to know how to type!
• Voki

Video Resources

• ZuiTube - kid-friendly videos pulled from YouTube into a separate location.  New resource
   

Image Generators

• Award Frames   More image frames   Samples
• Trading cards   Samples
• Mosaic    Samples
• Speech Bubbles   Samples
• Wordle 
• Snowflakes - make your own. An Animoto full of samples

• Big Huge Labs
• Image Chef
• Kid Safe Image Generators
• Add Letters! - make custom signs 
• Glass Giant Picture Makers  
• Scrapblog - create scrapbooks      

Photostory

Loaded on district laptop. 

Click Start --> Go to Programs --> Go to Applications --> Click on PhotoStory3

PhotoStory1.wmv 

Elsie.wmv 

American+Symbols+Photo+story.wmv 

PhotoStory.doc  one-page document with screen shots showing how to build a Photostory

Go here for online assistance creating a photostory

More assistance with Photostory 

Animoto

Musical videos!!

Healthy Habits

Bird Feet

"B" Things 

List of more samples

Animoto Assistance 

Do you need help finding copyright-friendly images?

• Picture Sources
• Flickr Creative Commons 
• Discovery Education Images  (SBISD password required)
• American Memory  
• Microsoft Clip Art & images 

• How to Capture and Save Images

• How to Crop or Add Text to an Image using PowerPoint (PPT)