Why That Image Link Won’t Work in a Flippity Template
Earlier this week I wrote about and published a video about making memory games with Flippity. Almost every time I write about Flippity I get an email from someone who has run into a problem with images not rendering. This week was not an exception to that pattern. There are generally two reasons why an […]
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 […]
How to Create Digital Thankfulness Turkeys
Last fall the switch to online and hybrid classes presented lots of challenges and required changing the way that we have done some of our “old standby” activities. For example, last fall I received a few emails from readers looking for some ideas on how to do a digital version of the classic Thanksgiving Thankfulness […]
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 […]
How to Make Digital Thanksgiving Thankfulness Turkeys
The switch to online and hybrid classes presents lots of challenges and requires changing the way that we have done some of our “old standby” activities. For example, this morning I received an email from a reader who was looking for some ideas on how do a digital version of the classic Thanksgiving Thankfulness Turkey […]
Don’t Fall for This Image Attribution Scam
Anyone who has followed my blog for a year or more knows that I am nothing if not vigilant in promoting the use of public domain imagery in blog posts and other multimedia projects. To that end, I have used Pixabay for years to locate images to use in my blog posts. Pixabay clearly labels […]
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 […]
Canva Has Acquired Pixabay and Pexels – Five Ways to Use Canva
Canva has been my go-to graphics creation tool for the last five or so years. It is incredibly easy to use and makes it possible for people like me who have no visual design skills to create good looking graphics. Pixabay has been my go-to source for public domain pictures and video clips for the […]
Pixabay Add-in for Word – A Quick Way to Add Images to Documents
Pixabay has been one of my go-to sources of high-quality images for years. The images on Pixabay are in the public domain which makes them perfect for all kinds of classroom projects. You can download the pictures for free from the Pixabay website. But if you or your students are working on on Word documents, […]
Find Free Photos by Searching on Every Stock Photo
Regular readers of this blog probably know that my go-to places for free images are Photos for Class, Pixabay, and Unsplash. But those aren’t the only places that you can find free images to use multimedia projects. Rather than lucky-dipping through other sites you can just head to Every Stock Photo for find a picture. Every Stock […]
How to Find Free Images to Use in Multimedia Projects
Earlier this week I received an email from a reader who was seeking clarification on the meaning of “not filtered by license” in the Tools menu in Google Images. I made the following video to answer that question and to show some other places to find free images to use in multimedia projects. My preferred […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What is Hotlinking?
This morning I received an email from a reader who had a question about my article on making bingo game boards in Google Sheets. Her question was essentially, “why won’t Pixabay images show up on the board?” The answer is that Pixabay doesn’t allow hotlinking its images. The following is from an article about image […]
A WordPress Plugin for Finding Public Domain Pictures
Pixabay is regularly featured as an alternative to Google Image search. Pixabay hosts thousands of high-resolution and high-quality images that are in the public domain. Today, through Product Hunt, I learned that Pixabay offers a WordPress plug-in. With the Pixabay WordPress plug-in installed on your blog, you can search for public domain images in the […]
Search Safely on Pixabay
Pixabay is a site that houses over one million free images and videos that have been uploaded by users around the world. All content found on the site is licensed under a Creative Commons CC0 license which means that you can use any of the content in any way you wish, even for commercial purposes. […]