Visit How Stuff Works.com to understand the difference between GIF and JPEG images and how they are related to animated GIFs.

Awesome Clipart for Educators

Pics4Learning.com: Thousands of copyright-free images categorized for educational use. You can even upload your own images to add to their collection! As always, give credit to the source when using images.

School Icons: Sample a great collection of free-to-use icons and graphics.

NorthStar Clip Art: "This whimsical collection of original North Star artwork by Peter Reynolds, inspired by the themes of his own book The North Star, is free to use on your own website, as long as it is for non-commercial or non-profit use (educational, institutional, family, etc.)."

Classroom Clipart: Images in this collection may be used by teachers and students in print, multimedia, and video productions. Uses include, school projects, school contests, and for school fund raising activities.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Photo Library (NOAA): The wonders of the planet in images–beautiful! From hurricane/tornado hunting to the ends of the earth and deep under the sea. Photo albums and slides are in the public domain and cannot be copyrighted, which means you can use them! However, don’t forget to give credit to NOAA when using these images.

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco: Search over 82,000 images from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor). Truly non-commercial uses are encouraged. Non-commercial: anything that does not include resale and is usually educational in nature.

Free Stock Photos.com: Free photography for personal use, along with a list of official Government Photography Web sites. Must cite the domain name, www.freestockphotos.com, when using their photographs.

NASA Image eXchange: These photographs (aircraft, solar system, and more) are not protected by copyright unless noted. If copyrighted, permission should be obtained. If not copyrighted, photographs may be reproduced and distributed without further permission from NASA.

Astronomy Picture of the Day Searchable Archive (NASA)

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Search for ANYTHING at Ivy’s Search Engines for Kids.

Visit the EPSON Print Lab and download free clip art, fonts, scrapbook
materials, and more!

Freefoto.com (Free Photos!)

Verizon's "Digital Content in the Classroom" (UDL Toolkits): Made possible by the support of the Verizon Foundation, this toolkit provides free online and low-cost retail resources for educators interested in using flexible computer technologies to reach and teach diverse learners.  It includes text, images, sounds, and video that have been digitized.

JALBUM:  FREE Web Photo Album Generator 

Dillon School District Two (Clip Art, Sounds, Forms, Templates, Games, Puzzles, Worksheets)

DigiTales, Image Sources, The Art of Telling Digital Stories
 

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Learn How Sound Files (MP3) Work and how to download songs with the help of How Stuff Works.com!

Go to How Stuff Works.com and do a search on the keyword sound files. The Search Results from the Web are amazing! (If advertisements pop up, click in the window’s close box to get rid of them.)

Find Sounds.com: Simply type in the name of the sound you’re looking for and click the SEARCH button. When you perform a search using FindSounds.com, you obtain links to audio files hosted by external Web sites. Check the copyright policy of the original source of the sound file before using it. Audio files containing obscenities are filtered out so this site is safe for school use.

Sea World/Busch Gardens Animal Sounds Library: To make a sound play in your presentation, press and hold your cursor over the LISTEN button to select "Download Link to Disk." Copy the file into your presentation. Read their copyright restrictions before using.

Search for ANYTHING at Ivy’s Search Engines for Kids.

Verizon's "Digital Content in the Classroom" (UDL Toolkits): Made possible by the support of the Verizon Foundation, this toolkit provides free online and low-cost retail resources for educators interested in using flexible computer technologies to reach and teach diverse learners.  It includes text, images, sounds, and video that have been digitized.

Free Play Music

Dillon School District Two (Clip Art, Sounds, Forms, Templates, Games, Puzzles, Worksheets)

DigiTales, Music and Sound Sources, The Art of Telling Digital Stories

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Learn how animation works and read about the future of animation at How Stuff Works.com. Amazing stuff! Learn lots about Flash and Shockwave!

At HowStuffWorks.com, play the first commercial video game that came out in 1971, called Pong!

View the breathtaking "Waters of Life" video and learn all about downloading videos, connection speeds, RealVideo, and more.

Learn how Digital Cinema works, with How Stuff Works.

North Carolina State Museum of Natural History: View videos of spiders, snakes, dinosaurs, butterflies, birds and more! (North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Distance Learning)

View Caldecott/Newbery Medal Winner and Honor Books on Video, thanks to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Distance Learning.

View streaming video on Blackbeard, Swimming with Whales, Cherokee Indians, and more. (North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Distance Learning)

Search through documentaries on dozens of North Carolina Topics. (North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Distance Learning)

Check out BrainPop movies on tons of topics! View copyright restrictions.

Search on your topic at Yahoo! Kids. As always, understand the copyright restrictions from the original source.

Ask for Kids if there are movies on your topic! As always, understand the copyright restrictions from the original source.

Visit Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, brought to you by North Carolina Wise Owl, and search for video clips, animations or pictures related to your topic. Read their copyright restrictions.

How Stuff Works contains animations, movies, and diagrams to explain how most anything in our world works! Simply type your topic in their search box! As always, understand the copyright restrictions from the original source.

At PBS.org Online NewsHour Extra you can view animations and photos, movies, and listen to sound clips on topics in the NEWS today! Here’s what they say about copyright.

Animation Factory: Visitors to Animation Factory may use the collection of free animated images only for personal projects, such as personal websites and emails. Read their terms of use.

Create Animated 3D Text Online with MediaBuilder! Choose from a huge collection of zany fonts and colors and shapes and sizes, and then animate! Check out the other tools while you’re there, like ButtonMaker and Postcard Maker. Visitors to may use the animated images only for personal projects, such as personal websites and emails.

Search for ANYTHING at Ivy’s Search Engines for Kids. As always, understand the copyright restrictions from the original source.

Sample a taste of all kinds of media with America’s Story: Watch a movie, view animation, hear a song, play a tune from America's past. Jump back in time to see what happened on your birthday. As always, understand the copyright restrictions from the original source.

Verizon's "Digital Content in the Classroom" (UDL Toolkits): Made possible by the support of the Verizon Foundation, this toolkit provides free online and low-cost retail resources for educators interested in using flexible computer technologies to reach and teach diverse learners.  It includes text, images, sounds, and video that have been digitized.

DigiTales, Music and Sound Sources, The Art of Telling Digital Stories

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