Shoreline Instructional Technology

Sources of free and public-domain media for school projects

IMPORTANT: This page is simply a list of resources for obtaining media. It is the responsibility of the user to fully comply with any fair use and copyright conditions with respect to the content found at these sites.

WHERE TO FIND IMAGES: 

Morgue File:  This website contains free high resolution digital stock photographs and reference images for either corporate or public use. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for illustrators, comic book artist, designers, teachers and all creative pursuits. 

Pics4Learning:  Royalty Free images for education. Contributed by teachers, students and amateur photographers. Many subject areas! 

Photoshop For Video:  Come search for "free" images at various government agency sites. Several websites offer images that are either public domain or have very generous usage > rights. Military pictures are available 

EASE History:  Hundreds of historical videos and photographs are currently available

Government Photo Archive:  State Photo Galleries covering numorouse government department image collections. Most of these images and graphics are available for use in the public domain, they may be used and reproduced without permission or fee

GIMP:  Copyright Free Images. The images and photos found in this archive come from three main sources: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)

Teach Politics:  The intent of this collection is to support the teaching of American political history by providing quick access to uncopyrighted images for inclusion in teaching materials.

Free Photos: The comprehensive collection of free photos is free to private non-commercial users and for sale to other users. (Note citation requirements)

Nettrekker: Select the "di" version link then pick your school to gain access, then use the Image Search from the Features menu on the right of the page.

Flickr: online photo management and sharing application

Google image search: Choose to view Medium or Large images. 

Microsoft ClipArt online: (use Safari as your browser) After you insert the clip art  into your  Word document you  need to use the image capture option (SHIFT /APPLE / 4) to place the image on your desktop as a .jpeg 

Corbis: Corbis Images for Education puts over 400,000 images at your fingertips. You can use them for classroom assignments, presentations, lesson plans, and other educational needs. This site must be accesses through Digital Learning Commons.  Click on DLC Library and then on Corbis.

 

HINTS:

  • When downloading a picture from a webpage use the CTRL /Click option menu and select ADD IMAGE TO iPHOTO LIBRARY and COPY IMAGE ADDRESS. (This process only works in Safari, not Firefox.)
  • Whenever possible check the pixel size. Your image pixel size should be at least 450x 250. 
  • Always download the full size image and NOT the thumbnail.
  • Record the source of the image by using APPLE/ I (Get Info) and pasting web address into Spotlight comments of the image.
  • Give the image a name that will tell you what it is.
  • Create a folder to keep all of the images in. Label the folder Dia de los Muertos Images or something similar. 

iPHOTO TIPS:

Graphics from your desktop or file:

1.    Save your pictures in a folder on your desktop or hard drive.

2.    In iPhoto – Go to File --> Import  to Library--> navigate to photo folder -->select a photo or photos --> Click Import.

3.    OR Drag the file(s) from the desktop or finder window into the main iPhoto window.

  • iPhoto will accept many popular graphic file types, like .jpg, .gif, .tiff and .png. It won’t, however, import .pdf images or Word clip art (must change to .jpeg see above)
  • An easy way to view your previous set of imported images is by clicking on the Last Roll icon in the Source window.
  • Copy and paste the source URL into the comments box for later reference.

WHERE TO FIND SOUND: 

Wav-Sounds.com  A family friendly site that offers a good roundup of free WAV sound files. Categories here include answering machine WAVs, cartoon WAVs, E-mail WAVs, funny WAVs, movie WAVs, parody WAVs, vehicle WAVs, and more.

WavPlanet.com 
This sound archive site, which has been around since 1999, serves up thousands of free sound files. Here, you'll find WAV and MIDI files from cinema and TV, as well as sound effects and files uploaded by users. 



MovieWavs.com 
This popular, regularly updated site offers thousands of sound clips from cinema and TV in WAV and MP3 format. The site includes a search engine to help you locate the sound clips you're looking for. 





FreeAcidLoops.net 
Looking for free ACID music loops? This site offers a nice roundup of free WAV samples and loops, suitable for use with ACID (Sonic Foundry's music creation tool). FreeAcidLoops.net also offers other free resources for electronic and techno musicians. 



The Daily WAV 
An impressive site that has been serving up quality WAV files every day since December, 1997. Plenty of sound files from cinema, TV and even commercials. Past selections are archived alphabetically. Ctrl-click the link and choose the "Download lined file" option.

HINT:  To Save the sound file Ctrl-click the link and choose the "Download lined file" option.

WHERE TO FIND VIDEO: 

Unitedstreaming: A digital video-on-demand service with more than 4,000 educational videos available for use.  You will need to enter a username and password. Read the Hint.

Username AND  password:  secondaryshorelinestudent

After logging in,  search for images and video by using the drop down menu beside the SEARCH link.

                   

Free Stock Footage:  Low resolution short clips to use royalty free.  To use- search for a topic.   When you see a clip of interest click on   “PLAY LOW-RES CLIP” The clip will start to play.  Next click on “Click Here to save this clip”.  The clip will be downloaded to your desktop and will have a series of numbers with a .mov at the end.  Drag the clip to your iMovie clip pane.    

National Archives: Uses Google Video for viewing and downloading.  Select the movie that you would like to view/download.  From t he download menu choose Video iPod/ SonyPSP.  The movie will download as a Quicktime to your desktop or designated download spot. National Archives Video Sections in the areas of NASA History, United Newsreel, Department of the Interior.

Google Video:  Search for online video using Google. Only those movies that have the Video iPod download can be used with iMovie projects.

  

HINT:

·  Before you start looking for videos, you have to tweak some preferences. 

·  Do all your browsing for video clips in Safari, not Firefox. 

·  Open System Preferences on your MacBook and click on the Flip for Mac icon

·  This is a plug-in that will allow videos formatted for Windows Media Player to play on your MacBook.  You need to uncheck “Launch QuickTime Player” to make it work.