Liz Castillo's List: EDIM514-CC

This website allows you to search for creative commons works from Flickr users who have tagged it to be used by others. This site contains media under varying types of CC license and you can search under each category. The categories include Attribution (copy with credit), Noncommerical, No Derivative (only verbatim), and Share Alike. This is a great resource to find various media for projects.

This free website is a database of freely-licensed media files for educational content. It includes images, sound, and video clips. This site is maintained by volunteers. Wikimedia is similar to Wikipedia where everyone can edit and contribute. You can search by categories and files can be embedded on Wikimedia projects. This is a good site for students to use to find various media to be used in project and presentations. It is also a good site for students to possibly contribute their own media for others to use. The database and texts are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike license.

Use this site to search for music licensed under Creative Commons. It is a community music site that contains remixes. According to the site, "you can listen to, sample, mash-up, and interact with the music." It is a great resource to use in remixing and for students to find music to use in videos, podcasts, and other multimedia projects. It is also a good resource for students to remix their own sample and then upload back to the site for others to use.

This site provides free and legal music downloads. The website states that it is the largest catalog of Creative Common music license. Music artists can easily publish and share their music. Music downloads are in mp3 format. This site can be used by students who want to publish and share their original music or they can download music for projects and presentations.

This is a free public domain for images. You can download photos or upload your own. Some of the pictures require a model or property release. This site can provide students a place to look for pictures that can be used for projects and presentations. Teachers can also use the pictures on this site for curriculum and instruction. Both students and teachers can also upload pictures to the repository.

This is a search engine to find high-quality Flickr images. It searches by pixel level. It is different from searching through Flickr or Google because it doesn't only use tags and file names. This is a good resource when you are looking for high quality images. The search window also allows you to choose: free to use, modify, and or commercial use.

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter.  This would be a great tool for movie and podcast projects.  Also powerpoint and Keynote.

Royalty free music to be used in movies and projects.