Media

Responsible Media Use

Media includes images, sounds, and videos.

We cannot use any media we find on the Internet, as much of it is copyrighted. Instead, we must find media that is open source, which means that anyone can use it for free. Creative Commons is a popular license for open source media.

The following are search engines for common source media. Use these to find images and sounds to include in your apps.

• All Media

  • Creative Commons Search (select the source to search)

  • Wikimedia Commons

• Images

  • Photos for Class (automatic attribution)

  • Google Image Search (usage: noncommercial reuse with modification)

  • Flickr (Creative Commons search)

  • Library of Congress Image Search (good for historical images)

  • Pixabay (high-quality images that do not require attribution)

• Icons

  • Open Clipart

  • The Noun Project

  • Icon Archive

• Sound

  • Sound Bible

  • Free Music Archive

  • FreeSound.org

• Video

  • YouTube (filter for Creative Commons)

  • Vimeo (filter for license CC BY-NC-ND)