ICDL - International Children's Digital Library How To Compile Your Holiday Videos Into A Cool Movie Trailer With iMovie [Mac] You have lots of short videos from your weekend vacation and you want to compile and share the clips. But you have barely had the time to do it. What can you do? Well, if you are a Mac user, you can quickly compile your holiday clips into a movie trailer using iMovie and share the trailer as a ‘teaser’ with your friends. You can then go back to your clips and edit them seriously later on when you have more spare time. Creating a movie trailer using iMovie is fairly simple, and from my amateur perspective, I think the result is astonishing. The Beginning Similar to Apple’s other creative applications, such as Pages, Keynote, and iWeb, iMovie provides users with several ready-to-use templates. The template window will open. When you click on a template, you can see more information about the item in the right pane. Your chosen template will be opened in the upper left pane, but we’ll get back to it later. The next step is to import the short clips that you want to use in your project.
Beantime Stories On warm, sunny afternoons, you're likely to find children knocking on the door of Tippity Witchet's windmill house asking her to tell them a Beantime Story. Tippity is always happy to see them. She invites the children to pick ripe jellybeans from her garden to eat while she tells her tales. You should find a comfy place to sit and join them to hear some of their favorite stories. Scroll down to see titles and intended audiences Big News! Note to parents and teachers: would you like to expand your children's vocabularies in a playful new way? Little Boy Blue Infants and Toddlers | Children 3-5 | Children 5-8 Itsy Bitsy Spider Infants and Toddlers | Children 3-5 | Children 5-8 Jack and Jill Infants and Toddlers | Children 3-5 | Children 5-8 Hey, Diddle, Diddle Infants and Toddlers | Children 3-5 | Children 5-8 Little Miss Muffet Infants and Toddlers | Children 3-5 | Children 5-8 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Infants and Toddlers | Children 3-5 | Children 5-8
Share Book Recommendations, Join Book Clubs, Learn more about your Favorite Books and Share Books with Friends. The Digital Comic Museum Grammatical Errors That Aren't By Davilynn Furlow Here is an excerpt from an excellent piece by Mark Nichol on the Web site Daily Writing Tips. These are four of seven grammar fallacies he shattered. 7 Grammatical Errors That Aren’t By Mark Nichol There are two types of grammar: Descriptive, which describes what is customary, and prescriptive grammar, which prescribes what should be. Allowing mob rule at the expense of some governing of composition is madness, but a diction dictatorship is dangerous, too. 1. 2. The stricture against closing sentences with words that describe position stems from an eighteen-century fetish for the supposed perfection of classical Latin, which allowed no split infinitives — for the excellent reason that Latin infinitives consist of single words. 3. 4.
Between the Lions . Dub Cubs | PBS KIDS! Come play again later! Come play again tomorrow! You Are What You Read -- for Older Readers Use this convenient guide to engage older readers in You Are What You Read, Scholastic's new resource that allows students to explore their literary selves and connect and share with other readers around the globe. Following the launch of Scholastic's Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life. literacy campaign, You Are What You Read was created to provide a social networking site to facilitate and support the reading community. Teachers, parents, and kids are all invited to join and kids will find their own special area on the site with its own identity. This guide equips you with talking points and materials to initiate your students into the online reading community. Bookprints Tell Your Story A bookprint is the mark that a book leaves on our lives, shaping who we are and who we become. Use the easy "5 Book Titles I Love" worksheet to help students share their thoughts about the books that are important to them. Call for Bookprints Three Things Share a Page
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