iMovie+World+History

Department: Social Studies ** Need to sign out your computer to work on the documentary? Click the calendar below. ** **Sign ups are for before and after school only and NOT during school hours!** **Please sign up for 30 minute slots only!** =iMovie Project World History= toc

Books (see cart)
Search [|WHS Catalog] for print and eBooks.

//**Book Cart** includes Global Issues// series with volumes on //Women's Rights, Human Trafficking, Pandemics, Global Warming, America's Role in the World//, //Fundamentalism, Nuclear Proliferation, World Poverty,// and more.

Databases (passwords on half sheet)
[|ABC-Clio Social Studies Issues Database]Start by finding out about your topic in this database. [|Global Issues in Context] - Up-to-date reference book and journal articles on global issues. [|Credo Reference] - Good general database with reference and current news articles. Good image search. [|Historical Newspapers database] - Find articles from the //New York Times//, //Wall Street Journal//, //Washington Post//, and //Boston Globe// (1851-2001)//.// [|InfoTrac] - Find articles from current //New York Times// (1995- present), reference books, journals and magazines. (Search Tip: Search all InfoTrac databases at once by selecting "All Cross-Searchable Products" right under the search box.)
 * [|CQ Researcher]** - Offers in-depth coverage of political and social issues, with regular full text reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

Recommended Websites
[|CIA Factbook] - Provides information about a country's government, society, trade, landscape, weather, demographics, and politics today. [|Newsrack]- Indexes RSS feeds of many global topics.

Video - News Footage
[|The Economist on YouTube] - modern world history video clips from The Economist magazine [|Internet Archive] - find archive news footage [|BBC] - find articles, archive videos, audio [|Free Documentary TV] - Find documentaries on many topics. [|United Streaming] - Search for short downloadable clips here. Password available from library or teacher. [|Public Moving Image Archive] (Library of Congress) - Links to archives of documents, images and moving images from countries around the world.

Google Video/Image Search Tips

 * **Keywords** - Try different keywords and use quotation marks to find exact matches.
 * **Media Type** - Organize your results by clicking on "Images" or "videos"
 * **Still Photo/Artwork Searches** - If you are looking for still photos or other artwork, organize the page by file size: click on "large" to find the best images first as these will work best as full-screen images in your film. Once opened, try "control" clicking on the image to see if it can be easily downloaded and make sure you are getting the "full-size" image.
 * **Downloading** - If you find video clips you want to use, first try "control" clicking on the clip to see if it can be easily downloaded. If not, you will need to convert file.
 * **Newspaper Headlines** - If you are looking for newspaper or magazine headlines try the following. Open the page with the article you like. Tell the computer to print the article but before you hit print button in the next window you should have the option to save the article as a PDF file. You can then convert that PDF into a JPEG file for use in iMovie.

Project Sheets
Questions? Check out the FAQ Sheet How to download videos from the web? Assignment Sheets Properly evaluate a website using the required Notecard How To Sheet

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