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IMAGES & VIDEOS
Free for school use - No permissions needed - Attribution not required (but recommended):
  • World Digital Library (Library of Congress) 
  • Unsplash 
  • Pexels 
  • Stockio 
  • Openclipart
  • Reshot
  • PikWizard
  • Pixabay: My first stop for photo searching. All images are CC0 licensed, free to use.
  • Good Free Photos
  • Public Domain Images from NY TIMES​
  • NYPL Public Domain Collection:  Over 180,000 digitized items now in the public domain. Great resource!
  • Public Domain Images from Smithsonian Archives
  • The Commons (Public Domain Photos and CC Licenses): This is a rich collection of photos started by The Library of Congress and Flickr. To find photos without a copyright, type in your search term, then look in the upper left hand corner ANY LICENSE drop-down and select No Known Copyright Restrictions. Another choice to select is Creative Commons or any of the other choices except for Any License.
  • LibreStock: A meta search engine for 47 sites that have Creative Commons 0  licensed images. (that means you can do anything you want with the images!)
  • TinEye: Reverse Image Search: Upload an image or past the URL and find out where it came from or if modified versions/higher resolutions versions of the image are available.​ ​​
IMAGES & VIDEOS
Free for school use - No permissions needed - Attribution required:
  • Creative Commons: Great to search for media, music, and images. Check out the usage terms in the CC license before downloading.
  • Google Images then narrow search: Go to Google Images and search your term. Then click on Search Tools, Usage Rights, and click dropdown menu and choose Labeled for Noncommercial Reuse to narrow your search and yield the most results for usable images for nonprofit purposes. This is also available through Creative Commons.
  • Google Images Advanced Search 
  • ​Digital Public Library of America: Discover 46,665,749 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States! Includes a plethora of online exhibits as well.
  • Morguefile: If you don't alter the image and leave it exactly as it is, then you must credit the photographer to use it. ( Suggested credit byline: Photo by <photographer's username> at Morguefile.com )​
  • Photos for Class: Creative Commons. And so handy, the downloaded images include the citation.
  • Flickr Advanced Search 
  • Wikimedia Commons​: Community media sharing - Check CC license agreement and give credit before using images and videos for projects. This is also accessible through Creative Commons search.
  • Compfight: Type in top left search box, then choose type of licenses desired on the left.
  • Pics4Learning: Citation is given when picture is downloaded​​
  • Creative Commons Edshelf : Image, music and video sources
SOUND FILES
  • Sample Focus: Easy to search for sound files

MUSIC
Can I use any song with a CC license on it?
Almost — you need to make sure that what you want to do with the music is OK under the terms of the particular Creative Commons license it’s under. CC-licensed music isn’t free for all uses, only some — so make sure to check out the terms (you can find these by clicking on each song’s license icon).
Most importantly, you need to use music that is not licensed under a No Derivative Works license. This means that the musician doesn’t want you to change, transform, or make a derivative work using their music. Under CC licenses, synching the music to images amounts to transforming the music, so you can’t legally use a song under a CC No Derivative Works license in your video.
Also, make sure to properly credit the musician and the track, as well as express the CC license the track is under.
For example, you might include text like this at the end of your video:
This video features the song “Desaprendere (Treatment)” by fourstones, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.
Most of these sites require an account to be created in order to access or download music.
  • ccMixter
  • Film Music
  • Free Music Archive
  • Jamendo
  • Magnatune
  • Fugue Music
  • CASH Music
  • SectionZ
  • Opsound
  • AudioFarm
  • Internet Archive’s Netlabels Collection
  • Purple Planet 
  • Musopen  ​
PRESENTATION TOOLS
  • Prezi
  • Animoto ​
  • Powtoon
  • Emaze 
  • Haiku Deck
  • Google Slides
  • Easelly
  • VoiceThread: ​Easily collaborate and create with voice, video, or image

Record Your Presentation Slides with Audio
  • Screencastomatic: Free, web-based tool that records what is on your screen, while you narrate. Set up your slides in PowerPoint or another tool, launch the recording tool and go. You’ll end up with a video of your presentation with your audio narration
  • Knovio: Upload your slides, then narrate slide by slide. Limited free plan
  • PowerPoint also offers slide recording and narration
Photo Editor 
  • Pixlr
  • Be Funky
STUDY AIDS
  • Chegg Prep
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