Community Assessment and Item Banking Initiative: Multimedia Resources

Galileo® K-12 Online

RESOURCES FOR TEXT

• AP Style Guide online

http://www.apstylebook.com/ (paid subscription required)

• EDL Core Vocabularies grade-level vocabulary resource

http://www.amazon.com/Vocabularies-Reading-Mathematics-Science- Studies/dp/155855811X

• Project Gutenberg, public domain texts

http://www.gutenberg.org/

• USA.gov

This Website aggregates and enables searching of multiple departments of the federal government providing access to information on multiple topics written/photographed by government employees and therefore in the public domain.

http://www.usa.gov/index.shtml

A few selected sites include:

o The National Park Service http://www.nps.gov/index.htm

o CIA World Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

o National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration http://www.noaa.gov/

• Library of Congress Digital Collection

Library of Congress articles are public domain but should be cited. Excerpted works of others may still be under copyright. Please check bibliographic information before borrowing content and pleases cite sources regardless of public domain status.

http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

RESOURCES FOR IMAGES

FREE IMAGE EDITING • GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)

There are versions for PC http://www.gimp.org/ or Mac http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/News.html

There is also a version for installation on a flash drive so the software does not have to be installed on your computer but can be used on any computer (with the same operating system, Windows or Mac) by opening the application on the flash drive.

http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable

• Inkscape

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator or CorelDraw. More advanced and more complicated to use than GIMP.

http://inkscape.org/

PURCHASED IMAGE EDITING • Adobe Fireworks image editing software. This is the software ATI uses.

http://success.adobe.com/en/na/sem/products/fireworks.html?kw=p&sdid=J RSIW&skwcid=TC|22173|adobe%20fireworks||S|b|12286776163

• Adobe Photoshop

http://success.adobe.com/en/na/sem/products/photoshopfamily.html?sdid=I BFJQ&skwcid=TC|22179|adobe%20photoshop||S|e|7383519382

• Adobe offers subscriptions rather than full purchase options for some of their image editing software. They also offer educator and student discounts on the software.

http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-EDU

IMAGE COLLECTIONS • “ATI-CAIB: Vis. Arts” and the “CAIB-grade Art” Item Family libraries. These libraries are accessed on the Bank Builder’s Question page.

• Images of math block 10 set, clock and hands, and musical symbols are found within the Galileo Forum’s Assessments>Community Assessment and Item Banking Initiative>Graphics.

• Library of Congress Digital Collection

Library of Congress articles are public domain but should be cited. Excerpted works of others may still be under copyright. Please check bibliographic

information before borrowing content and pleases cite sources regardless of public domain status.

http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

• Wikimedia Commons

These are categorized from public domain to Fair Use and have differing levels of permissions based on the category. Please only include content that is acceptable for free usage and make certain to include attribution where required by

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images

Please refer to the “Galileo’s Bank Builder and Review Tools” manual for further details on using images within Galileo.

RESOURCES FOR AUDIO

We recommend using 64-bit audio with a maximum file size of 100 MB

AUDIO RECORDING SOFTWARE • Adobe Soundbooth (paid)

http://www.adobe.com/products/soundbooth/

• Audacity (open source)

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

AUDIO COLLECTIONS • Library of Congress Digital Collection

http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/

• Wikimedia Commons

These are categorized from public domain to Fair Use and have differing levels of permissions based on the category. Please only include content that

is acceptable for free usage and make certain to include attribution where required by

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sound RESOURCES FOR MUSIC

• MuseScore

Free music composition & notation software. Create, play and print sheet music.

http://musescore.org/en

• Finale

Finale offers a menu of different music notation programs, at varying prices. Free 30 day downloads are available for some.

http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/default.aspx