We are indebted to Simon Mills for these suggestions.
6 Great Multimodal Starting Points for Writing

You cannot see these within school but have a look at home.

Bert - Mong Sung Lee

One teacher's work using this film.
Responding to Bert - Simon Mills

Kiwi

The Piano

Resources for 'The Piano'

Mike's new car

The Monk and the fish

Grocery store wars

The Shirt Machine

 

The Aardman Channel on U-Tube

Want to use a YouTube video at school but it's blocked by the filters? Try Zamzar.com. This website lets you download videos from different websites (including YouTube) and save them onto your computer in various formats which you can then take into school.

If you've got a Mac running Leopard instal Real Player and click the download button in the RealPlayer Download list. The downloaded files replay in a Windows machine with RealPlayer installed.