My Updated Guide to Media for Classroom Projects
Over the last year some of my old favorite sources of media for classroom projects changed or completely disappeared. They’ve been replaced by some new and updated sources for free sound effects, music, videos, pictures, and drawings to use in classroom projects. That’s why I created an updated guide to finding media for classroom projects. […]
A Great Place to Find Free Sound Effects
This morning I hosted a webinar about creating your own apps in your classroom. In one of the demonstrations that I gave I created an app that played a little dog barking noise when a person tapped “I’m a dog person” on the screen. The sound effect that I used came from one of my […]
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 […]
The National Jukebox – 16,000+ Early Music Recordings
The Library of Congress offers many interesting collections of digital archives including one called the National Jukebox. I first wrote about it more than a decade ago. Since then the size of the collection has expanded because more recordings have entered the public domain and because the Library of Congress has digitized more recordings. The […]
Free Music for Classroom Projects
Creating multimedia projects like videos, podcasts, and audio slideshows is a great way for students to develop a variety of skills. Some of those skills are technical skills while others are soft skills that they can carry over into all aspects of academic life. Those soft skills include respecting the intellectual property of others. That’s […]
Mixkit Now Offers Free Sound Effects, Music, and Video Clips for Your Multimedia Projects
Back in February I published a video overview of how to use Mixkit to find free b-roll video and music to use in multimedia projects. This week the folks at Mixkit added sound effects to their library of free media. The sound effects library is separate from the music library in Mixkit. The sound effects […]
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 […]
A Good Source of Free Music for Multimedia Projects
Last fall the Free Music Archive, one of my go-to sources of free music for multimedia projects, nearly closed. Fortunately, it was taken over by KitSplit who has kept it running. The Free Music Archive provides free, high-quality, music in a wide range of genres. The content on Free Music Archive is used under various […]
How to Use Bensound to Download Free Music
A couple of weeks ago I posted a short review of a site called Bensound that hosts about 175 free instrumental music tracks that you can download for free. You can down the music for free and re-use it in classroom video projects provided that you follow the guidelines set by Bensound. Those guidelines include […]
The Free Music Archive is Closing – But Not All is Lost
For the better part of the last decade the Free Music Archive has been one of my go-to places to find free music to use video projects. Unfortunately, the end is near for the Free Music Archive. Earlier this month the hosts of the FMA announced that it would be shutting down at the end […]
Five Places to Find Free Music and Sounds for Multimedia Projects
From adding music to a slideshow to adding sound effects to videos to bumper music for podcasts, there are plenty of classroom projects that require free audio files. If you find yourself or your students in need of some free music or sound effects, take a look at these sites that offer thousands of free […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to Find Free Music for Classroom Projects
Dig CC Mixter is a good place to find music for use in classroom projects like videos and podcasts. The music that you will find on Dig CC Mixter is Creative Commons licensed. And, as I demonstrate in the following video, Dig CC Mixter makes it very easy to give proper attribution to the artists […]
Dig CC Mixter – Find Music for Your Next Video Project
In this week’s tip of the week newsletter I featured sources of public domain and Creative Commons licensed videos. I’ve had a couple of people reply with questions about using music in multimedia projects. Just because a song is available to stream or download through the Internet, doesn’t mean that you have the rights to […]
Free Music to Use In Google Slides Presentations
Earlier this week I published directions for how to add music to your Google Slides presentations. In those directions I mentioned that in order to add music to your presentation you first need to store it in your Google Drive account. If you find yourself or your students in need of some free music to […]
Radiooooo – The Musical Time Machine
Radiooooo is a site that brings together music from around the world and organizes it by decade beginning in 1900 through now. Simply click on a country, select a decade and music will begin playing. If you are feeling more adventurous then you can select “taxi mode” which allows you to select multiple countries and […]
25,000 78 RPM Records for Your Listening Pleasure
A few years ago I spent time preparing my grandparents’ home to be sold. In the process my uncles and I came across many artifacts of a bygone era in American culture. Included in those artifacts were some 78RPM records. Unfortunately, lacking a record player we weren’t able to play the records. But today there […]
7 Places to Find Free Music & Sound Effects for Multimedia Projects
Creating your own music and or sound effects to use in videos or podcasts is one way to avoid violating someone’s copyright rights. Another option is to look for music and sound effects that are either in the public domain or have been labeled with a Creative Commons license. The following seven places offer music […]
5 Tools Students Can Use to Create Music Online
Online music creation tools can be used by students to make music to use in projects like podcasts and videos. Students can also use online music creation tools to experiment with rhythms and sounds to learn how music is made. The following free tools can be used for either of those purposes. Soundtrap is a […]
Six Good Places to Find Free Music and Sound Effects
In my post earlier today about tools for creating book trailer videos I mentioned a couple of sources of free sound effects and music. Picking the right music or sound effects can have a drastic influence on how we react to a scene in a video. Here are some places that you and your students […]