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 Worried
about what your kids may see on the Internet? Want to keep them from
porno, violence and other inappropriate web destinations? We use CyperPatrol
at home. It works. It can filter harmful websites, block or filter chat,
manage time online,
and protect personal information. Just $39.
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 checkout
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.
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.
Check out the Top Six winning Micro-muvee's
on the muvee site. These were all completed using muvee's automatic
video editing package - muvee
AutoProducer
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.
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
Want to make movies but don't have a
camcorder? 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.
In addition
to using on-line video to make people laugh,
educate and entertain, businesses can use
streaming video to promote their gear and
products. Check out the  highly
impressive DragonFlyer
video from RCToys.com. Canadian
high-tech toy designer Zenon Dragan, the Draganflyer’s
creator, has loaded his website with digital
videos to show how it works. As seen on
Ripley's Believe it or Not. This is
something you just have to check out. It is
quite a radical design. The site offers
numerous clips and is very well presented.
Dragan confesses that he has no experience
in videography, "we just started making
movies by coming up with skits and scenes
and doing simple cuts in iMovie. We filmed
one of our flying machines and transferred
the video into iMovie. We learned iMovie in
about an hour and a half. We finished
editing the video later that day, compressed
it in iMovie, posted it to our server, and
hyperlinked the video to an eBay auction.
That was all on the first day of getting a
new video camera. It’s worked out
phenomenally well". Another4Video
selection!
And if you
really like these radio controlled toys,
check out this HPI
Racing site - full of QuickTime movies
of RC stuff!
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.
You like animals? - click on the Kid
Explorers site to see a bunch of cool animal videos.
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Best
Kid and Family 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.
This
was selected as George
Lucas' favorite Star Wars fan flick.  What
little girl could resist the lure of plastic Star Wars action
figures? Christmas
Tauntauns is a short (2:35) animated musical that details one
little girl's wish to own the entire universe 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.
Cartoon
Network Favorites - In addition to great current and classic cartoons, there
a wide range of games for kids to play. Cartons include the Flintstones, Augie-Doggie,
Cow & Chicken, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss and Magilla Gorilla. Scooby-Doo,
The Smurfs, Space Ghost and Rocky & Bullwinkle are also there, as are many
others.
The Alternative Television Network or AEN
TV is the home of a wide range of streaming video productions. Their various
channels cover the gamut from showbiz, music, comedy, and classic "GOLDEN
AGE" television shows and commercials. Some of their ongoing shows available for watching include Chix on Flix-
Get fun reviews of box office and rental flix!; GamePro Minutes - Get
reviews and previews of HOT video game action; D.A.R.E. Safety Tips- Join
Retro Bill on his crusade to make the world a safer place!; Hollywood
Reporter Minutes- Host Vicki Johnson gives you all the Industry news you
need to know!
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Looking for a bunch of good kid oriented short videos and animations. Make
sure you visit the kids
section at UndergroundFilm.com.
 Check
out "Kung
Foo Kitchen" . Hosted at www.undergroundfilm.com,
it demonstrates that even if you have no budget, all you need is
creativity to create a great little Internet movie. This brief 5
minute film is a vegetable oriented satire of your typical Kung Fu film
with great fight scenes. By the way, according to the producers,
"no
vegetables were harmed during the making of this film."
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