Supplies students should provide:

1. Students are expected to maintain current backups of their files. Students can use media in any of the following formats:

2. Students may need a digital camera for field assignments. SmartMedia and CompactFlash are the supported formats. And students may also need a camcorder for field work. MiniDV, VHS, and SVHS tapes are supported.

3. A pad of grid paper may be useful for sketching, taking notes, etc.

4. Students should also upgrade their home PC's with multimedia plug-ins for their web browser:

http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/
(download the Flash player and the Shockwave player)

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
(QuickTime player)

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html
(Acrobat reader)

Applications training:

Photoshop:
http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html

http://myjanee.home.insightbb.com/tutorials.htm

Flash:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/tutorial_index.html

http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials

iPhoto:
http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/howto/

Garage Band:
http://www.apple.com/support/garageband/

http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/hottips/

iMovie:
http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/

QuickTime:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tools_tips/tutorials/

To further supplement their training students may choose to consider:

http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/index.asp
Lynda.com is a provider of multimedia applications traning CD's.
For $25 users can view all of the training archives on-line for one month

Freeware:

Picassa, a free alternative to iPhoto from Google:
http://picasa.google.com/

Audacity, a free alternative to GarageBand:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

The following links are provided to facilitate independent research by students:

Milken Family Foundation Education Technology Articles
http://www.mff.org/edtech/

eSchool News
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/current.cfm

EDUCAUSE
http://www.educause.edu/

Adobe Media - Digital Communication for Educators
http://www.adobe.com/resources/education/digital_communication/

New York Times Technology Section
http://tech.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html

BusinessWeek Technology Section
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/

The MIT Media Lab
http://www.media.mit.edu/

ACM MMSIG: Multimedia Special Interest Group
http://www.acm.org/sigmm/

ACM SIGCHI: Interactions journal on-line
http://www.acm.org/interactions

PBS - NerdTV - Bob Cringley's Weekly Online Show About IT
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/shows/