Free Resources for your Classroom

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Director of Professional Development972-275-9251dbenner@tcea.org@diben

Diana Benner

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Goals

• Identify free clip art, music, and sound effect resources

• Practice searching for additional resources that can be used in the classroom

• Understand the copyright and creative commons restrictions and how they impact use of these resources

• Have fun!

Session Resources

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Today’s Meet

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1. Introduce Yourself• Name, District, Position, Grade Level

2. How often do you search for free resources on the Internet?

Copyright & Creative Commons

What is Creative Commons?

• Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.

• There are various types of Creative Commons licenses that range from allowing any type of use with no attribution to allowing only certain uses and no changes.

http://goo.gl/dgKr6O

Creative Commons Explained

http://youtu.be/4ZvJGV6YF6Y

What is Public Domain?

• Works in the public domain are those whose copyrights have expired, have been forfeited, or are inapplicable.

• Finding something on the internet does not mean it is in the public domain.

http://goo.gl/dgKr6O

How do you know if an image is copyright or not?• Check the page you are on and see

if there is a copyright or “terms of use” notice

• If the image is copyrighted, you shouldrequest permission from the publisher to use it

These terms will come up often as we discuss free photo sources. Read over the terms and conditions of each site

you try so you know exactly when and what type of attribution is required.

Copyright

Clip Art & Images

Discovery Education Clip Art

• Add graphics to your next project, whether it’s for home or school

• Choose from hundreds of original clip art pieces, including animations

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/

School Clip Art• Free clip art for students and teachers

• Use clipart images on your worksheets, lesson plans, quizzes, tests, exams, puzzles, and homework to motivate your students

• Requests a link back to the website giving credit for the clip art used

http://www.school-clip-art.com/

Open Clip Art• A great way to find clip art• Easy to use• A variety of collections are available

https://openclipart.org/

Ooakaboo• A nice creative commons (free) site for finding great

images for class work

http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/

3D Toad• A 3D/360 website that allows parents, students and teachers

free access to 3D images of a variety of educational subjects

http://www.3dtoad.com/

Pics4Learning

• A safe, free image library for education

• Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos & images for classrooms, multimedia projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting

http://pics.tech4learning.com/

Free Clip Art.Com

• Can download web-ready clipart for free

• Printable art, such as illustrations, borders, and cartoons, that can be electronically copied and used

• Can be used for school - Students and teachers can use them for their homework assignments and Web sites

• Provide a link back to the website giving credit for the clip art used

http://www.free-clip-art.com/

Classroom Clipart• A great source for free clipart for not only for students,

teachers and parents, but for everyone• Provides a great place for clipart, illustrations and pictures• The categories have a mix of all types of images• Images are watermarked with a Classroom Clipart

Logo/Copyright

http://classroomclipart.com/

Free Photo Bank• A free stock photo site

• Under a Creative Commons license but request that you link back to their website

http://www.freephotobank.org/

Teacher Files

• Source of free educational resources for teachers to use in their classrooms

• All the resources available here are absolutely free• No registration required

http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm

Find Icons

• An icon search engine helps you find free icons

• A large searchable free icons database

http://findicons.com/

Microsoft Office Clip Art

• Formerly called Design Gallery Live • You can choose from a diverse

collection of more than 135,000 pieces of clip art, animation, sounds, and photos for professional and personal use

• You can add these clips anything you want

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=images&ex=1&origin=EC010141330#mt:0|

Visual Dictionary• A great place to find educational photos and descriptions

and more

http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

Image Base• Contains more than 100 pages of images that have been

released for free• Everything from everyday life photos to landscapes and

abstract imagery• Downloads as JPG • What does free mean?

http://www.imagebase.net/

Human Line• A site for teachers and students for free images for: art,

history, science, etc.

http://www.humanline.com/

Public Domain Clip Art• A HUGE collection of public domain clip art• The collection is FREE and NO REGISTRATION is

required• Terms of Use

http://www.pdclipart.org/

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Music & Sounds

Morgue File

• Contains free high resolution digital stock photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site

• Images can be searched by subject category, image size, color or rating

• To acknowledge the artist's photographs, you are to credit the photographer

• Any questions regarding liabilities should be directed to the photographer of the image in questions

http://www.morguefile.com/

SoundGator

• Has common sounds like car horns, doorbells ringing, or dogs barking

• Sound recordings can be downloaded and used with projects

• Pick from twenty-three different recording categories that you can browse through

• Registration is required to download recordings

http://www.soundgator.com/

Freesound

• Aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, etc.

• Released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse

http://www.freesound.org/

Soundation Studio

• Includes real time effects, virtual instruments, automation, recording and much more 

• Is available via your browser and you have to create an account.

• Select the 'Free' version for access up to 700 great free loops and samples

http://soundation.com/

BeatLab

• A studio where you can create your own beats and rhythms

• Has instruments you can choose from and different genres to change the styles

• Requires an account (email) or you can use a Google account

http://www.beatlab.com/

Internet Audio Archive

http://archive.org/details/audio

•Download or listen to free music and audio•Contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. •Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download. •You can also contribute your audio

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Other Free Resources

Google Fonts

• Google has a listing of over 600 fonts you can choose from and download to use

• Browse by category, thickness, slant or width• Add to Collection > Use > Download or Get Code to use in

Web pages

http://www.google.com/fonts/

Big Huge Labs

• Create magazine covers, movie posters, jigsaw puzzles and more

• Sign up for a free Educator account• Pre-register your students so they can sign in without

requiring an email address• Students can send you their work with

a single click• View and download content created

by your students• Use the site advertising-free

http://bighugelabs.com/

Storybird

• Lets anyone make visual stories in seconds

• Curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those imagesinto fresh stories

• Sign up for free

http://storybird.com/

PinkyDinkyDoo

• Create video story podcasts

• Download audio podcasts

• Offers podcasting tips

http://www.pinkydinkydoo.com/storybox.html

Picture Book Maker

• Create your very own children’s book

http://www.artisancam.org.uk/flashapps/picturebookmaker/picturebookmaker.php

Narrable

• Narrable uses storytelling through images and narrations to engage students and to draw out important higher order thinking skills.

• Requires you to create a teacher account

https://narrable.com/

And even more . . .

• Animoto - http://animoto.com/• Create great videos with animoto

• Voicethread - http://voicethread.com/ • An interactive collaboration and sharing tool that enables

users to add images, documents, and videos

• Piktochart – http://piktochart.com/• Make your own infographic

• ReadWriteThink - http://www.readwritethink.org/• Lot’s of teacher resources

Watch Know Learn.Org

• Free K-12 educational videos

http://goo.gl/6hYdOW

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Searching for Resources

Behold

• A nice search engine to use w/ adult supervision for finding images on Flickr

http://www.behold.cc/

Source

Veezzle

• A nice free stock photo search engine

• The use of any image found using veezzle is at your own risk

• It is your obligation to verify, read and respect the license of each photo and use it responsibly.

http://www.veezzle.com/

Google Advanced Search

• Google Advanced Image Search is a method of finding free-to-use images through Google’s own search tools.

• Here’s a quick guide.

Wylio• An image search engine• Results only return images that are

listed with a Creative Commons licensed images

• You can sign in with your Google account and will need to give Wylio access to a web album like Picasa

• Once you select an image, Wylio makes it easy to give proper attribution to the creator of the image by providing you with html code that includes attribution

http://www.wylio.com/

Questions

Session Resources1. Fonts, Music, Images, and Graphics https://

sites.google.com/a/tcea.org/13-14ll/fonts-music-images-graphics 2. Copyright Friendly Images

http://www.slideshare.net/azschnee/free-pictureswhere-to-find-them-on-the-web?qid=ede17b6f-ea27-4533-bf29-bf5792864819&v=qf1&b=&from_search=31

3. 15 Sites for Finding Clip Art http://cyber-kap.blogspot.com/2012/04/15-sites-for-finding-images-and-clip.html

4. Cybrary Man’s Teacher Tools http://www.cybraryman.com/teachertools.html5. Top 10 webistes for free images http://

cyber-kap.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-sites-for-images-and-clip-art.html

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