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ADE Dean Vendramin chronicles the stages of planning and administering a district film festival.

MicroSurveys are short, often one screen or page surveys to gather quick information. A full set of resources to carry out the process can be found at: http://snipurl.com/Microsurveys

Students will represent some of their favourite things using digital images. Final product will be in the form of a digital storybook.

Google e-ART-h Tour empowers Art Appreciation students to identify and review permanent art displays in the local community.

This is a podcast that Corey created in preparation of an Apple School Night my class participated in this past June 2008. We worked in collaboration with the National Weather Service and their recognition of the first week in June as being National Rip Current Awareness Week. Corey thought this would be an important area to create a podcast because people in our community were recently getting caught in rip currents with some of them dying. This podcast was converted to a quicktime movie and shared with the school. The National Weather Service has viewed the podcast and is posting it on their website as a learning tool for children and appreciate his efforts.

Our class discussed what Citizenship means to each of us while making some real world connections. In our discussion our thoughts turned back to our Safety Patrol trip to Washington, D.C., and our visit to Arlington National Cemetery. The pictures and video in this movie were taken before and during the Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

No matter if you're a musician or not Garage Band is your instrument of change. From enhancing podcasts to scoring movie projects Garageband will help remix your media and bring new sights and sounds to your audience. Music teachers will be jazzed to see the rehearsal opportunities that Garage Band brings to the choir while foreign language staff will marvel at the ability to layer audio to fit the needs of any new language learner. And don't forget the tricks and tips for language acquisition activities for ages 2-92

This exhibit offers educators a host of concepts on how they can maximize the instant communication capabilities of iChat and its related technologies to improve teaching and learning for teachers and students alike.

Sometimes the truth gets muddled by time and inaccurate historical accounts. In this BrainSnack, storyteller Ken Thomasma explains how his efforts to tell the truth landed Sacajewea and her baby on the U.S. golden dollar coin.

You don’t have to be a wordsmith to tell a story. Storyteller Ken Thomasma notes that film is a powerful way of getting a message across. Check out this BrainSnack and learn how he uses film as another form of storytelling.

Feedback helps you know whether you’re on the right track. Storyteller Ken Thomasma knows he is, and he shares a story in this BrainSnack about how inspiring feedback to a story made every moment spent writing the book worth it.

Even the most prolific storytellers plan their stories and spend a lot of time perfecting them. In this BrainSnack, Ken Thomasma explains how he composes his stories, both before and after he bought a computer.

Is there more to the story than what you just read? In this BrainSnack, storyteller Ken Thomasma relays the importance of researching cultural and historical information to uncover more than what’s in the history books.

Writing might come naturally to you, but how about a couple of tips from an expert? In this BrainSnack, storyteller Ken Thomasma offers a few techniques to help jumpstart the creative process.

If you’re paying attention, story ideas will come to you from your surroundings. Author Ken Thomasma explains in this BrainSnack how the story of a Native American child came to him while listening to real life story.

If you’re going to paint a picture with words, you’ve got to have some kind of picture to paint, right? In this BrainSnack, Ken Thomasma emphasizes how knowing the landscape enabled him to create an accurate picture in the reader’s mind of what his characters were sensing and feeling.

Who says you have to be a writer to be a storyteller? Jump into Ken Thomasma’s Cowboy Cadillac in this BrainSnack and listen as he explains the oral tradition of storytelling.

In the final episode of the Australia Set to Screen Series, Baz Luhrmann discusses music and its’ roll in the storytelling process for a feature film. See and hear how Baz uses music, in supportive and demonstrative ways, to convey joy and doom while creating peaks and troughs of sound that ultimately move the audience through the films story. As David Hirschfelder says “Music is the hidden wallpaper of a movie that actually drives the movie with the narrative”. Watch and experience how the collaborative efforts of the composer, music editor, and director weave the sound into the final soundtrack of Australia.

In Podcast 9 of the Set To Screen series, Australia, Director Baz Luhrmann introduces you to his film editing and post production team, where you will hear how they work together editing film, visual effects, sound, special effects, and still shots to create the final cut of this epic movie. By stepping into the world of digital editing, you can join Baz behind the scenes in this fascinating podcast where Australia is born in post production.

Wayne Pashley is a Sydney-based sound designer whose feature film credits include Australian and international titles. Starting his career in sound at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation during the early 1980s, he worked exclusively in drama and on many of the acclaimed miniseries of that time, including Captain James Cook, The Boy in the Bush, and Great Expectations. 

Opening the doors of his own sound studio, Big Bang Sound Design, in 1987, Wayne moved into a freelance career as a sound editor and sound designer, working with some of the finest directors and producers in the film industry. Since then he has contributed to the soundtracks of over 35 films, including Peter Weir’s Greencard and Fearless, George Miller’s Lorenzo’s Oil and Babe movies, Bruce Beresford’s Paradise Road, Gillian Armstrong’s Oscar & Lucinda, and Steve Irwin’s Crocodile Hunter — Collision Course. 

In 1997 Wayne received local and international recognition for his work on Bill Bennett’s Kiss or Kill when he won an Australian Film Institute award for Best Achievement in Sound, and Best Artistic Contribution from the Montreal World Film Festival. 

A second Australian Film Institute award for Best Achievement in Sound came in 1999 for In a Savage Land. He has also received recognition from the British Academy and American Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild for his work on Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom, Chris Noonan’s Babe, and George Miller’s Babe 2-Pig in the City. Wayne recently completed work as the supervising sound editor, sound designer, and re-recording mixer on George Miller’s Oscar-winning motion picture animation Happy Feet.