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This site is devoted to listing educator-friendly, copyright free resources for audio, video and pictures which may be helpful to students and teachers. All information posted here was current as of 10/9/2010. Information on the web changes frequently, therefore it is important the you double check the services listed to be sure their terms of use or license information hasn't changed. The information here is not legal advice and should not be treated as such. As always there is NO substitute for the educator's good judgement in what is ethically appropriate for their students, therefore it is suggested that you preview a site before offering it up for student use.
When building web pages, multimedia presenations or even handouts, there are copyright laws to consider. Therefore, consider sites devoted to "copyleft", public domain, or Creative Commons content. These sites have fewer restrictions and typically allow educational, non-commercial use of their images, video, and audio files.
Want a book with good practical advice for copyright in education? I recommend Copyright for Schools: A Practical Guide by Carol Ann Simpson.
Images/Video/Sound (One Stop Sites)
Lots of space imagery, video and even interactives. |
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This site lets you search some other sites for work that is licensed less restrictedly. You can find images, video, sounds and even files from sites like Yahoo, Google, & Flickr. |
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Google Advanced Search allows you to specify your search results by file type but also by license type. Definitely needs to be checked
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SpinXpress-Get Media- Is a site that pulls together images, video, and audio and lets you choose the type of license you'd like to find (non-commercial, attribution, etc) GREAT PLACE TO START. |
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Images-
 Pics 4 Learning is a Copyright Friendly and Educator Friendly site with 1,000's of images. |
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Organized by category. Many to choose from. |
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Many fields of science represented from physics to botany to astronomy. |
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Broad categories involving cultures both ancient and modern. |
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I know it sounds creepy, but it has nothing to do with a morgue. Searchable, free to use images. |
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Searchable, copyright free stock photographs |
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WPClipart A collection of educational based clipart images with no restrictions nicely catagorized. |
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EduPic.net This site contains some photos and drawings all with free use for education. There are even categories for Language Arts, Science, etc. |
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Bigfoto- A Copyright Free Photo site that makes attribution easy. |
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Video
A listing of old commercials and user created content, you'll never know what you'll find, but it is free of restrictions for education. |
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This site is for teachers by teachers. It has teacher and student submitted videos in a variety of subject areas. No restrictions. |
Click image to view video in new page |
Nextvista For Learning This is a site specifically for teachers and students. The site has three types of videos. Video tutorials/student projects by subject area, videos highlighting areas of the world and videos dedicated to showing community service. |
Water_Cycle.mp4 |
Living Room Candidate This site is an archive of presidential election videos from the dawn of video campaigning to the present. These videos are NOT downloadable BUT can be used under Fair Use. Search by issue or decade. Also there are great teaching resources here. Check out the infamous "Daisy" ad on the right. |
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WGBH Sandbox- Video clips for free, non-commercial use, with attribution from this Boston PBS partner. Short video clips in many categories including history, technology, |
http://lab.wgbh.org/sandbox/wwii-zero-point-atomic-bomb
Mouse over the clip to directly link to the page. |
PD Comedy- This site is "Public Domain" video clips of old comedy shows. Mostly black and white but some are classics like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Frank Sinatra. |
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The Open Video Project- This is a collection of publically funded, government created or otherwise historical, scientific or educational videos from the past. The are OK to be used within fair use guidelines but NOT commerically. Search by B & W, color, topic, or even length of video clip. |
Click this image for a video explaining kinetic energy. |
Wing Clips This site has clips (30 seconds to 4 minutes in length) from popular Hollywood films. They can be shown on the site but (if it is for a religious sermon or education presentation that stays in-house) may be downloaded in various
file formats. The site is organized by genre and by themes (betrayal, celebration, etc.). License requires you delete a downloaded file within 30 days. |
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Sound
Jamendo Great place for more modern sounds. Few limitations with this music. Creative Commons licenses. |
Freeplay Music Great for in-class project but DOES NOT allow for broadcast, distributed or publically shown projects outside of a classroom. Browse by music style, feel, or even time length. |
Soungle A copyright free, royalty free searchable sound website. |
OPSOUND a resource for open-source music. All songs are Creative Commons Share-Alike or Public Domain. The tags section is probably the best way to browse the collection. |
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Organized by style. |
 Freesound.org is the best place I've seen for finding creative commons/copyright free sound effects. You do have to register (which is free) in order to download the sounds, but it's searchable and has a wide variety of
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Owl Music Search- This site lets you upload a song you own so that Owl can analyze the file and find a similar sounding liscence free song. Worth a try. |
Flashkit SoundFX- This site has sounds effects, some may be useful, some not. Use sparingly. They are free to use for non-commercial uses only. Ones labeled "linkware" are expecting you to link to the author for attribution. |
Flashkit Loops- This site has "loops" (small bits of audio that can be looped together to remix into a larger original song). They are free to use for non-commercial uses only. Ones labeled "linkware" are expecting you to link to the author for attribution. |
E-Fiddler.com- This site has free to use music loops of fiddle/violin music in various styles. |
Derek R. Audette- This composer lets anyone use his compositions for free for any purpose just as long as you give him credit. Great full length compositions here but also "bumper music" (shorter music commonly used as intro music or transitions in films and
presentations) Oh, and it would be great if you send him an email if you do use any of his stuff. |
Flashhaven- This site has high quality loops but you have to look at everyone, it's just a list. |
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SoundClick- This website lets you search their collection for Creative Commons licensed music. You can preview and download as well. |
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This site lets you look for sounds by location around the world where they were recorded. They are free to use but you must give credit to the recorder. |
A great place with easy to find and totally free to use music and sound effects. |
Newsground.com Music Listing A good site for finding music to use for commercial free purposes. Most tracks sound like video game background music. |
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Got a site you think should be on this list? Email me at jbailey at rsu10.org
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