Clipart & Drawings for Classroom Projects
Earlier this week I shared ClipArt ETC and Clippix ETC as good resources for locating free clipart and pictures to use in classroom projects. That was the third post this fall that I’ve published to feature a good place for teachers and students to find free drawings. To summarize all three of those posts I […]
More Than 70,000 Pieces of ClipArt and Pictures for Students
The Florida Center for Instructional Technology hosts two fantastic resources for teachers and students in search of clipart and pictures for classroom projects. One of those is ClipArt ETC and the other is Clippix ETC. ClipArt ETC is an online catalog of more than 70,000 pieces of clipart that students and teachers can download and […]
Free, Customizable Clip Art
CoCoMaterial is an online library of almost 2,500 drawings that you can download and re-use for free. I’ve been using it for about a month and I really like the style of the artwork found on CoCoMaterial. It has been a hit with the folks participating in my Animated Explanations course this month. This week […]
Another Good Place to Find Free Drawings for Classroom Projects
Earlier this year I published a list of good places to find free images and drawings to use in your classroom projects. Thanks to something that Troy Patterson Tweeted earlier this week I have another good resource to add to that list. CocoMaterial is an online library of nearly 2,500 drawings that you can download […]
A Great Place to Find Free Images for School Projects
Photos for Class is one of my favorite sites for students to use to find free images to use their projects. The best feature of Photos for Class is that it automatically adds attribution information to the footer of the images that students download. Recently, Photos for Class was updated to provide stricter image filtering. I thought […]
A Good Place to Find Free Images and Music for Classroom Projects
In my guide to finding media for classroom projects I provide a list and description of my favorite resources. The next time I update that guide I’ll include Openverse. Openverse is the replacement for the old CreativeCommons.org search tool. The Creative Commons organization has handed-off oversight of Creative Commons search to WordPress. WordPress now operates Creative […]
Free to Use and Reuse Images of Athletes and Sporting Events
The Library of Congress is a great place to find historical pictures, drawings, and maps to use in lesson plans and classroom projects. Finding things on the Library of Congress’ website isn’t always easy if you only use the search function. But the LOC’s Free to Use and Reuse Sets make it much easier to find thematically […]
Vintage Travel Posters and Google Earth
The Library of Congress offers thousands of historical images and maps that students can download and reuse for free. Most of the images and maps are found in these digital collections. Some of those images are arranged in collections on the LOC site in a section appropriately titled Free to Use and Reuse Sets. It’s […]
How to Search the Smithsonian’s Open Access Collection
Earlier this week the Smithsonian launched a new open access collection. Smithsonian Open Access contains more than 2.8 million digital artifacts that you can view and download for free. While the Smithsonian Open Access homepage does have a couple of introductory videos, they’re more promotional than they are instructional. That’s why I created the following […]
New Unsplash for Education Collections – Library of Congress, NYPL, NOAA, and More
Unsplash is one of my top recommendations for places to find images that are in the public domain. Last August Unsplash introduced collections intended for educational uses. This week Unsplash added more collections that have great potential for classroom uses. Earlier this week Unsplash announced the addition of collections of images from the Library of […]
Unsplash for iPad – Quickly Add Public Domain Pictures to Keynote & iMovie
Unsplash is one of my favorite places to find high quality pictures to use in presentations. This week Unsplash launched a new iOS app. The new Unsplash app lets you search through the entire Unsplash collection. The best part of the Unsplash iPad app is that once you find a picture that you like you […]
Pixabay Videos – How Have I Been Overlooking This?
Thanks to Anthony St. Jean last night I learned that Pixabay hosts public domain videos that you can download for free. It’s an option that is right on the front page of Pixabay and I’ve just overlooked it. To find public domain videos on Pixabay just select the “video” option from the menu on the […]
12 Alternatives to Google Image Search – Comparison Chart
Unless they’re introduced to other options, Google Images tends to be the default image search tool for students and adults. Google Images is convenient, but it’s not the best place for students to find images that are in the public domain or to images that have been labeled with a Creative Commons license. That’s why […]
Photos for Class Now Offers More Free Images for Students
Photos for Class is one of my favorite sites for students to use to find free images to use their projects. The most outstanding feature of Photos for Class is that it automatically adds attribution information to the footer of the images that students download. For the last few years Photos for Class has relied […]
Reshot – A New Source of Free Images for Multimedia Projects
Reshot is a new site that offers free “handpicked” images that you can download to reuse in multimedia projects. The site, like many like it, lets you download images for free. According to Reshot’s licensing statement, image attribution isn’t required, but it is appreciated. To that end Reshot makes it easy to find and copy […]
Free Icons & Images for Google Docs and Slides
The Noun Project is a popular source of free icons and images. The Noun Project collections include thousands of public domain, Creative Commons, and royalty-free icons. Learn more about the Noun Project in the short video below. The Noun Project now offers Add-ons for Google Docs and for Google Slides. Like other image search Add-ons, […]
Pixabay Now Has an Office Plug-in
Pixabay is one of my go-to sites for public domain images. If you need a picture to use in your slideshow, document, or other multimedia project, Pixabay is a great site to search. Recently, Pixabay started promoting a new Word and PowerPoint plug-in. The new Pixabay Word and PowerPoint plug-in lets you search for public […]
These Google Docs Add-ons Make It Easy to Find Public Domain Images
Whenever I talk about copyright I always encourage teachers and students to use their own images when they need to include visuals in a paper or presentation. If you don’t own an appropriate picture then look for images that are in the public domain. While Google Docs does have a built-in image search tool, Google […]
PikWizard – Another Place to Find Free Images
PikWizard is a free site that offers thousands of high quality images that you can download and re-use for free. PikWizard provides clear guidance on how you can use each picture that you find on the site. You will find that guidance posted to the right of any picture that you select from search results. […]
6,500 Vintage Travel Photos – Free To Use
The Library of Congress website is a great place to find historic images to use in presentations. The free images housed by the Library of Congress are organized into many collections. One of those collections, Photochrom Prints, was recently featured in a LOC blog post. The Photochrom Prints collection offers 6,500 vintage travel photographs of […]
How to Find Free Photos Within Google Slides
Google Slides now has Add-ons just like Docs, Sheets, and Forms. The selection of Google Slides Add-ons is fairly limited at this point, but there are some good ones for teachers and students within that small collection. One of those is the Unsplash Photos Add-on. This Add-on gives you instant access to Unsplash’s collection of […]
Stockio – Free Images, Icons, Fonts, and Videos
Atlantic Puffin Pair – Ray Hennessey via Stockio. Stockio is a website that offers free images, icons, fonts, and videos to download and re-use in your own projects. According to the notices that accompany each file on Stockio, attribution is not required but is appreciated. To download an image, an icon, or a font set […]
More Than 100,000 Interesting Historical Images to Download for Free
A Cow Grazing Adriaen van de Velde Image Source: J. Paul Getty Museum The Getty Museum’s Open Content Program offers more than 114,000 images that you can download and re-use for free. You can download and re-use the images as long as you give proper attribution for the source of the image (see my image caption for […]
Three Good Places to Find Public Domain Images
My earlier post about Common Craft’s new video prompted a few people to ask me for recommendations for places to find public domain images and videos. Here are the three places that I go to when I need public domain images. Pixabay hosts high quality public domain images. You can search on Pixabay by using keywords […]
5 Ways to Find Free Images – From the Archive
Due to an injury and some pressing personal matters requiring my attention, posts for the rest of the week will be favorites from the archive. Google’s recent introduction of the “Explore” tool in Google Slides retained the option for students to find images for their slides, but removed the option to filter the images according […]
Pic4Carto – Find Creative Commons Images Based on Location
There are plenty of places to find public domain and Creative Commons licensed pictures on the web. Some of my favorite places were featured in this post on Practical Ed Tech. Pic4Carto is an interesting site that I will probably add to that list in the future. Pic4Carto is a site that lets you browse […]
200,000 Free National Parks Images
The Open Parks Network is a collaborative project created by Clemson University and the U.S. National Parks service. The Open Parks Network provides visitors with access to more than 200,000 free digital images. The Open Parks Network collection is comprised of images from twenty national parks, two state park systems, and three university libraries. Most […]
5 Ways Students Can Find Free Images
Google’s recent introduction of the “Explore” tool in Google Slides retained the option for students to find images for their slides, but removed the option to filter the images according to usage rights. There are other ways to find free images to legally use in slides, videos, and other multimedia projects. In the following video […]