Finding Media For Your Story
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Beyond this list below, see 30+ Places to Find Creative Commons Media.
Multiple Media Types
- Ourmedia http://ourmedia.org/
- Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/
- Get Media http://www.spinxpress.com/getmedia
- Customize Google Search for Free Media http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=012356173952156030296:fxuin7rsmvq
Images
Check Finding Photos for ways to locate appropriately licensed images within flickr or use any media in my shared flickr account (username=cogdogroo / password provided in workshop)- 4FreePhotos - A collection of public domain images in multiple categories.
- Art Images for College Teaching - a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/
- Youraustralia - cc licensed landscape images http://www.youraustralia.eu/
- BioMed Image Archive - medical, dental, and veterinary images for use in learning http://www.brisbio.ac.uk/
- Besplatne slike Several thousand copyright friendly, public domain images organized in categories. All photos are free for any personal and/or commercial use, credit or back link is not required.
- EduPic Graphical Resources for Educators http://www.edupic.net/
- everystockphoto - search form multiple sources http://www.everystockphoto.com/
- Free Digital Photos http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
- Free Images - 2500 free stock images http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
- FreeFoto - over 100,000 images free for online use http://www.freefoto.com/
- FreePhoroBank - creative commons licensed photos searchable and organized into categories http://www.freephotobank.org/
- FreeStockPhotos http://freestockphotos.com/
- Great Images In NASA http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/
- Image*After - almost 20,000 pictures and textures http://www.imageafter.com/
- Internet Pathology Lab for Education - medical images & diagrams http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html
- morgueFiles - photos "freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects" http://www.morguefile.com
- Open Photo Project - cc licensed photos http://openphoto.net/
- PDphoto public domain photos http://pdphoto.org/
- Pixel Perfect Digital 5000+ user contributed images http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/free_stock_photos/
- NOAA Photo Library - weather images http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/\
- PicApp Add the best stock photos to your blog – for free! http://picapp.com/publicsite/
- Pictures from Old Books http://fromoldbooks.org/
- PicFinder - search multiple sources for royalty free photos http://www.picfindr.com/
- Pics4Learning educational images http://www.pics4learning.com/
- Public Domain Images- Several thousand copyright friendly images nicely organized in categories, free for any personal and/or commercial use, credit or back link is not required. http://www.public-domain-image.com
- Public Health Image Library (PHIL) http://phil.cdc.gov/
- Sketchory http://sketchory.com/
- stock.xching - over 250,000 free stock photos http://www.sxc.hu/
- US Government Photos and Images http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml
- Woophy - find images via map http://www.woophy.com/
- World Images - 50,000+ images free for education, non-profit use http://worldart.sjsu.edu/
- YotoPhoto - searches public domain and cc licensed photo collections http://yotophoto.com/
Audio
- ArtistServer free downloads of independent band music ttp://www.artistserver.com/music.cfm
- CC Hits - cc licensed music http://cchits.ning.com/hits/
- ccMixter - remixes of cc licensed music http://www.ccmixter.org/
- Free Music Archive - library of high quality copyright cleared music curated by WFMU http://freemusicarchive.org/
- Free Music Project - free music of all genres http://freemusic.freeculture.org/
- Funky Remixes "music found on this website is funky and free... a sweet collection of upbeat hip-hop, rap/rock, electronic and funky styled remixes." http://funkyremixes.com/
- Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/audio
- Jamendo more than 10,000 albums of free, cc licensed music http://www.jamendo.com/
- Podsafe Audio "a location where musicians can upload music under the Creative Commons license for use in Podcasts, Mashups, Shoutcasts, Webcasts and every other kind of 'casting' that exists on the 'net." http://www.podsafeaudio.com/
- Opsound - cc licensed music http://www.opsound.org/opsound.html
- pdsounds environmental sound archive http://www.pdsounds.org/
- Public Domain Music http://www.pdinfo.com/
- SoundTransit - creative commons licensed field recordings http://soundtransit.nl/search/
Video
- Entertainment Magazine's Free Movies http://emol.org/movies/freemovielist.html
- Free Public Domain Movies http://imovies.blogspot.com/
- Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/movies
- National Archives http://video.google.com/nara.html
- Open Video Project http://open-video.org/
- Open Source Cinema http://www.opensourcecinema.org/
- Public Domain Comedy Videos http://www.pdcomedy.com/
- revver http://revver.com/
- sevenload http://en.sevenload.com/creativecommons
- vimeo creative commons tagged videos http://www.vimeo.com/tag:creativecommons
- WGBH Sandbox http://streams.wgbh.org/sandbox/
- WikiMedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video
Now you are ready for step 3... select a tool to build your story
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