Lindseyjelias's List: EDIM514-CC Media Library

Students and educators can use this site to find and download free, high-quality photos. All pictures have an "Attribution Along" CC license, which means students and educators may download, use, and/or modify pictures any way they want as long as they give credit as to where they got the picture. Additionally, it is required that they must link back to FreePhotoBank if the pictures are used for a website. A link must be on each page that contains pictures from FreePhotoBank. This is a great resource for teacher- and student-made web pages, slideshows, reports, presentations, lesson-related images, projects, etc.

Students and educators can use this site to find music for videos, slideshows, digital stories, web pages, podcasts, etc. They can find instrumental background or theme music for film, internet videos, soundtracks, and other projects. They can also make their own tracks and remixes using the music already on the site!

The content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which means the rest of the world is free to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the content as long as attribution is given.

This would be great for students and educators to use as a resource for political videos, photos, podcasts, etc. and current world events.

It features material not only related to the White House and President Obama, but all parts of the US government. It also has material from other parts of the world, including news footage and photos. This would be especially useful to help kids learn about what is going on in the world and about current events that they might otherwise not know about. For students who have little to no background knowledge of what life is like in other countries, the photos and videos would help to build their knowledge by providing them with visual examples.

This website offers different resources that are available under Creative Commons licenses. Educators and students can search different sources for audio, video, and images. These could be used for presentations, as an activating strategy, and in projects. Teachers could search for audio, video, and/or images that would supplement instruction. Students could put these things in digital projects. They might want to share their projects on the internet. They could also use the images for hard copy projects, such as reports, stories, posters, and artwork.

All of the music on this site is available under one of the Creative Commons licenses. Users are allowed to download the music for free. Students and educators could use this site to find background music and sound effects to use in digital media projects, such as web pages, videos, slide shows, podcasts, digital stories, and presentations. Depending on what CC license a piece of work has, users could alter and mix the music, creating entirely new work. They could also create their own "mash ups" to serve their purposes.

This link will take you to a page that describes different kinds of CC licenses under which photos and images are listed. Students and educators can use this site to search for photos and images that are free for them to use. They can search for content under each type of license or a specific license. They can also do an advanced search to find content under the licenses which they delineate. This is a great resource for students to use when searching for photos and images to include in projects and presentations. The images can be used digitally, or they can be downloaded and printed out. Depending on the type of CC license an image has, students could add text to it, crop it, overlay another image on it, and do all sorts of image editing. This provides students who feel they are not the best drawers/artists another option in which to create original work.