Free Resources for Your Classroom Come join us to learn about some great sites where your students can find free music, clipart, sounds, and more! Attendees should be able to answer these questions after attending this session: 1. Where can I find free and appropriate music, clipart, and sounds? 2. How can I search to find additional resources that my kids can use in the classroom? 3. What are the copyright and creative commons restrictions and how does that impact my use of these resources?

1. Free Resources for
your Classroom

2. Presenter
Director of Professional Development
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Diana Benner
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3. 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!

4. Session Resources
http://goo.gl/7NpxJg

5. Today’s Meet
Today’s Meet
https://todaysmeet.com/ttfree
1. Introduce Yourself
• Name, District, Position, Grade Level
2. How often do you search for free resources
on the Internet?

6. Copyright & Creative
Commons

7. 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

8. Creative Commons Explained
http://youtu.be/4ZvJGV6YF6Y

9. 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

10. 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 should
request 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

11. Clip Art & Images

12. 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/

13. 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/

14. Open Clip Art
• A great way to find clip art
• Easy to use
• A variety of collections are available
https://openclipart.org/

15. Ooakaboo
• A nice creative commons (free) site for finding great
images for class work
http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/

16. 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/

17. 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/

18. 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/

19. 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/

20. 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/

21. 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

22. Find Icons
• An icon search engine helps you find free icons
• A large searchable free icons database
http://findicons.com/

23. 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|

24. Visual Dictionary
• A great place to find educational photos and descriptions
and more
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

25. 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/

26. Human Line
• A site for teachers and students for free images for: art,
history, science, etc.
http://www.humanline.com/

27. 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/

28. Today’s Meet
https://todaysmeet.com/ttfree

29. Music & Sounds

30. 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/

31. 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/

32. 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/

33. 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/

34. 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/

35. 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

36. Today’s Meet
https://todaysmeet.com/ttfree

37. Other Free Resources

38. 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/

39. 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/

40. 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 images
into fresh stories
• Sign up for free
http://storybird.com/

41. PinkyDinkyDoo
• Create video story podcasts
• Download audio podcasts
• Offers podcasting tips
http://www.pinkydinkydoo.com/storybox.html

42. Picture Book Maker
• Create your very own children’s book
http://www.artisancam.org.uk/flashapps/picturebook
maker/picturebookmaker.php

43. 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/

44. 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

45. Watch Know Learn.Org
• Free K-12 educational videos
http://goo.gl/6hYdOW

46. Today’s Meet
https://todaysmeet.com/ttfree

47. Searching for Resources

48. Behold
• A nice search engine to use w/ adult supervision for finding
images on Flickr
http://www.behold.cc/
Source

49. 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/

50. 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.

51. 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/

52. Questions

53. Session Resources
1. 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.html
5. Top 10 webistes for free images http://cyber-kap.blogspot.com/2010/12/top-10-sites-for-
images-and-clip-art.html

54. Thank You!
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