Entries Tagged as ‘Images’

October 11, 2008

Film Club

FILMCLUB is a chance to enter the incredible, limitless cosmos of films – a rollercoaster ride through worlds that delight, challenge, inspire, unite and amaze.
FILMCLUB is a new service run by movie-lovers to introduce kids to the wonder of films. How? By helping teachers and pupils form clubs in schools to show fantastic movies from [...]

June 19, 2008

VLC Media Player

Many thanks to Zoe from Croft Primary for recommending VLC Media Player which is a free download. Zoe has tried it and says it is very easy to use and will allow you to take screen shots of DVDs.

June 10, 2008

Doctor Who Trailer Maker

Create your own Doctor Who trailer by dragging video clips, characters, sounds and music onto the timeline. Save and view. Great fun!

June 4, 2008

Using Intervideo WinDVD4 for capturing pictures from DVDs

I’ve been playing around watching clips of the Titanic for my class’s literacy and discovered that on this program you can capture pictures from the DVD and paste them into other documents.
Didn’t realise you could do this.  Wish I’d got it at school, we could have used it for our Honey I Shrunk the Kids [...]

May 14, 2008

Samorost

Samorost and Samarost 2 - more ’point and click’ adventure games with lovely imagery to stimulate writing.
They are both set in the same incredible world, where a little white gnome lives on a small planet in space. In the first game, he has to save his home from an incoming bird-like asteroid. The downside is that you [...]

May 14, 2008

Screenshots from Windows Media Player

If you have ever tried to print screen from windows media player and just got a black screen, here is the answer.  Very useful for taking stills into other programs for discussion with students.Free simple way to capture Images from Windows Media Player

Open Window Media Player
Then go to Tools | Options
In Options, select [...]

May 5, 2008

Spell with Flickr

Spell with Flickr grabs images and uses them to spell whatever you have typed in. Great for classroom displays!

May 5, 2008

Online Image Editing

Picnik is an excellent online tool for editing your digital photographs. It is particularly useful if you are using the Asus Eeepc as there is no need to download the application.

May 3, 2008

Voice Thread

What do you think of this? http://voicethread.com/share/122145/ An interesting way to give pupils the opportunity to respond to images.

May 2, 2008

ARKive – images of life on earth

ARKive, a unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world’s species. Play Wildlife Rescue or explore the education resources for teachers.