Creativity With Technology

AUDIO CLIPS - SOUND EFFECTS

Incompetech - Royalty-free music by Kevin Macleod

Kevin Macleod - Royalty-free music that may not be on his webiste

A-1 Free Sound Effects - Hundreds of sound effects can be downloaded for free in .wav or .mp3 format for personal or non-profit school use.

Audio Micro - AudioMicro is a revolutionary collection of free sound effects, royalty free sound effects, free sound clips, and royalty free music in .wav format.

Partners in Rhyme - All the free sound effects are in the middle column of this home page and can be downloaded as .wav files.

The Freesound Project - (both .wav and .mp3 formats) The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to

• • browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a "sounds-like" type of browsing and more

  • up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license

  • interact with fellow sound-artists!

DanoSongs - Royalty free music if given credit.

Soundzabound - Soundzabound is the ONLY royalty free music library which meets all the licensing and technology requirements needed for education! AHS has the entire catalog from this site for teacher and student use. It contains thousands of mp3 audio clips, including music and sound effects, for use in multimedia presentations. See Mrs. Phillips for log in information.

EDUCATIONAL TOOLS

Free Mind - FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. Great for brainstorming exercises and visualizing concepts.

Glogster for Educators - Glogster EDU is your original educational resource for innovative and interactive learning. Glogster EDU was conceived to imaginatively, productively, and collaboratively respond to the dynamic educational landscape and exceed the needs of today’s educators and learners.

PHOTOS - CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE

http://imgur.com/

http://etc.usf.edu/clippix/pictures/

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/

http://wylio.com/

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

http://creativecommons.org

http://commons.wikimedia.org

http://openphoto.net

http://www.photospd.com/

http://www.public-domain-image.com/

http://www.freephotobank.org/main.php

http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en – Change usage rights= labeled for reuse w/modification

Eduscapes - a source of free photos for students to illustrate projects

Copyrightfriendly - this source from Joyce Valenza, 21st Century Librarian Guru, lists dozens of sites for multimedia photos, clip art, audio, etc.

Presentations, Etc. - Use these free backgrounds, templates, letters, frames, and buttons for school presentations, websites, class newsletters, digital scrap booking, and student portfolios.

Prezi - Create astonishing presentations live and on the web

Simple Booklet - The Web's simplest do-it-yourself digital booklet, brochure, and advert creation and publishing tool.

ToonDoo - Create your own comic strip

NIFTY GADGETS

Cue Prompter - free teleprompter; works great with digital book talks and other media.

File Wiggler - Free audio and video file conversion, without downloading the software.

KeepVid - Download and save any video from youtube or other sites.

SaveVideo - Download and save any video from youtube or other sites.

Voki - a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages.

Wordle - Beautiful word clouds. Free.

WordSift - Visualize text. Free.