My Two Go-to Places for Free Sound Effects and Music
Some of my students are currently using the MIT App Inventor to create their own Android apps. It’s a great way for students learn some programming concepts and have a working app at the end. I figured that some other teachers would like to know how it works so I published this tutorial last week. […]
Pixabay Offers Free Music to Use and Reuse
Pixabay is one of the resources that I frequently include in my recommendations for sources of images and video clips to use in slideshow and video projects. This morning I got a notice from Pixabay informing me of Pixabay’s audio collection. I’m not sure how long it has been there, but I didn’t notice it […]
Mixkit – Hundreds of Free Music and Video Clips for Multimedia Presentations
Mixkit is a website that offers hundreds of free music files and videos that you can download to use in your multimedia projects. The licensing terms for assets on Mixkit are clear. You can download videos and audio files from Mixkit to re-use and remix. You don’t have to credit Mixkit, but they will appreciate […]
STEM, Music, and Spring – The Week in Review
Good morning from Maine where spring is in the air and lots of snow is still on the ground. Some of my favorite days of the year happen now when there’s still snow on the ground but it’s warm enough during the day to have fun in the sun. In fact, that’s what I did […]
Video – An Overview of How to Find & Keep Track of Free Audio Files
Over the last couple weeks I’ve published a series of posts featuring free sources of audio files that you can download for re-use in your multimedia projects. In the following video I provide an overview of three places to find free audio files. In the video I show how to find files on each of […]
ZapSplat – Thousands of Free Sound Effects
ZapSplat is a website that offers more than 20,000 sound effects and songs that you can download and re-use for free. The licensing that ZapSplat uses is quite clear. As long as you cite ZapSplat, you can use the sound effects and music in your videos, podcasts, and other multimedia projects. ZapSplat does require you […]
A Good Place to Find Free Sound Effects for Multimedia Projects
Whether it is for a podcast, a video, a slide presentation, or some other multimedia project, there will be times when your students need to download sound effects. SoundBible is a good place for students to find all kinds of free sound effects recordings. Students can download files as MP3 or WAV files. And best […]