Kathleen Kendall's    

MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES

Banners, Buttons, Bullets, Backgrounds, and Graphics

Julianne's Background Textures
Intended Audience: General
Description: A well-formatted site, which displays backgrounds by color gradients.

Dr. Alice Christie's Multimedia Resources
Intended Audience: Educators and students
Description: A comprehensive site for locating a variety of multimedia resources.

CoolText
Intended Audience: General (anyone seeking customized graphics).
General Description: A totally  free online service that provides real-time generation of graphics customized exactly the way you want the. You can make buttons, logos, and bullets by  selecting choices of fonts and colors on a form.

Millennium Mousepad
Intended Audience: Multimedia and web page creators.
Description:  This site highlights country style images, backgrounds and themes. Instructions and scripts for inserting dynamic cursors (the ones that tail across the screen) and counter digits are easy to follow. You may use these graphics on personal non-commercial Web sites as long as you create a link back to the Millennium MousePad

Animation Online
Intended Audience: Multimedia and web page creators.
Description: Easily navigated site.  Click on a few screens, type in some text, and you will have a banner, display or a navigation bar.

 Ball Boutique; Free Graphics by Octagamm Web Design: Tool Trunk
Intended Audience: General
Description: An easily navigated site, offering many interactive  tools for manipulating and creating graphics.

MIDI MUSIC

Parlor Songs 
Intended Audience: Teachers, students and music and history buffs.
Description:  Includes songs from the 1800 to 1900. An art or history lesson could be easily incorporated  with this site. Requires midi-files plug-ins.

State Songs:
Intended Audience: Teachers and students.
Description: Recordings of the State Songs.  Will be useful for integrating into a social studies curriculum.

Classical Music Archives
Intended Audience: All music lovers.
Description: There is something here for everyone! Requires midi-files plug-ins.

WEB TUTORIALS

Web Teacher
Intended Audience: Educators
Description: This Web primer, designed by two teachers from Tennessee, provides introductory lessons as well as a more in-depth tutorial for understanding all facets of the Web. In addition, this site includes information about Internet safety, cable modem technology, and links to interesting educational sites.

Winners on Wheels
Intended Audience: Kids
Description:  An introduction to the Internet and the Web and how to get started using them.

Tek Camp for Kids
Intended Audience: Kids
Description: Users will learn all about how the World Wide Web works while exploring Paw Island.

Microsoft Office 2000 PowerPoint Tutorial
Intended Audience: Educators
Description: Practical guide for educators in creating classroom resources using PowerPoint.

WEB PAGE  CONSTRUCTION

BigChalk
Intended Audience: Educators and students.
Description: Offers several templates to create a home page. The school kit includes a message from the principal, calendar, newspaper, policies, and discussions.  The media center kit includes links to online resources for students and  links to professional development sites for educators.

LIGHTSPAN -Your School Online, Your Class Online
Intended Audience: Educators, Students and Parents
Description: Offers forms and templates for constructing Web pages for your school or classroom. One of the unique features offered by this service is statistics about your site usage.

Filamentality
Intended Audience: Educators
Description: An interactive Web site that guides the user through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities.

Classroom.tripod.com
Intended Audience: Teachers and students.
Description: Presents home-page building tools in a fun and easy way.

GENERAL MULTIMEDIA

Adobe PhotoShop
Intended Audience: General
Description: This is the official site for AdobePhoto Shop image editing program.  Includes tutorials, support and a user forum.