IMAGE SOURCES

  • American Memory Collection: Prints, Photographs and Drawings
  • Encyclopedia Britannica Image Gallery
  • Free Digital Photos.net
  • Free Images - Not just another clipart graphic site! More than 6000 original stock photos all for FREE! Free images is a high quality resource of digital stock photographic images for use by all. All images in their collection are free to use on websites and printed materials.
  • Imagebase Free Photos - A searchable database of free stock images with full permission to use the photos without attribution. Most images are high resolution.
  • Images from World History
  • Morguefile - Thanks to the generosity of contributors, this site provides thousands of free pictures, which you can use and remix, even in commercial applications. Attribution is not required.
  • NASA Images - The most comprehensive compilation of NASA stills, film and video. Students may use the images for school projects as long as they credit NASA.
  • New York Public Library Digital Collections - The Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more. Some of the images in the Digital Gallery may be subject to third party rights such as copyright and/or rights of privacy/publicity. Before using any of these images please review the Library's Terms and Conditions.
  • Smithsonian Images - An amazing collection of photos on history and science. Students and teachers are may use thesephotos for personal and educational purposes. You must credit the Smithsonian and the photographer. See copyright section on the website for more detail on how these images may be used.
  • The Smithsonian Institution Archive Collections
  • Time & Life Picture Collection

Music SOURCES

  • Free Music Archive - The Free Music Archive provides free, high-quality, music in a wide range of genres. Anyone can download music from FMA for use in podcasts, videos, and other digital presentation formats. The music collections can be searched by genre or by curator. The Free Music Archive offers free downloads under Creative Commons and other licenses. Please visit the track page to discover whatyou can and cannot do with each track.
  • CCmixter - This site offers a library of legal, copyright-safe, free music available for download and podcast use. Find the perfect music, liberally licensed, for your project or listening.
  • Incompetech - free music
  • Soundation - a powerful online music studio with recording, effects, virtual instruments and over 400 free loops and sounds.
  • Soungle - Soungle is a free site that allows users to easily find and search sound effects and musical instruments samples along our huge online library.
  • Sound Bible - Sound Bibleis a resource for finding and downloading free sound clips, sound effects, and sound bites. All of the sounds on Sound Bible are either public domain or labeled with a Creative Commons license. You can find sounds for use in podcasts, videos, slideshows, or other multimedia creations.
  • Jamendo - a source of free and legal music downloads. The music onJamendocomes from the artists who upload it themselves.While not all of the music is licensed for re-use, there is a substantial collection of music labeled with a Creative Commons license.As always, before re-using any of the music you download make sure it is labeled for re-use.
  • Jewelbeat - Use these free music tracks & free sound effects for any production - advertising, education, videos, photos, YouTube...etc. These music tracks can be looped seamlessly & repeated to create a longer music track for your projects. You only need tolinkto our website from yours: "Music by JewelBeat.

CLIPART SOURCES

  • ClassroomClipart.Com
  • CoolText.com: Online Graphics Generator
  • Discovery School Clipart
  • DK Clipart (Dorling Kindersley)
  • EduPic Graphical Resource - Edupic Graphical Resource is a teacher designed free image resource for educators and their students. All images contained within are free for use by education professionals and the students they serve without permission.
  • Microsoft Office Online - Download royalty-free clip art, photos, illustrations, animations, sounds, borders, icons, backgrounds, and more for Microsoft Office products.
  • Pics4Learning - Students, teachers, and amateur photographers have donated the thousands of images that make up this site. These images may be used for print, multimedia, and video projects.

Clipart pictures using PowerPoint

If you can’t find a picture online that you need, try looking in Clipart on PowerPoint!

  • Open PowerPoint
  • Click InsertClipart
  • Search for the picture you would like
  • Add the picture to your PowerPoint slide
  • Make the picture as large as the slide, add a black background (or another color) if the picture does not fit proportionately to the edges.

  • If you need more pictures, add additional slides, add 1 picture per slide (or a collage of many pictures if that is what you want it to look like!)
  • Once you are done, click on FILESAVE AS > Choose to save it to your network folder, give it a File Name, Click on Save as Typeand choose JPEG
  • Click Save
  • Click Every Slide on the pop-up window
  • Click OK on the last screen.
  • Now each slide is saved separately as a picture!