Triad High School

Library | Media Center

Welcome to the Triad High School Media Center

where students are free to explore and enjoy the many resources available!

Projects & Research Resources

Citation Style Guides Rules and examples for citing your sources in research papers from Purdue OWL

Google Scholar Google's professional journal search engine.

Tech Tools for Projects (Thanks to O'Fallon Township High School IRC) Links to a variety of tools for presentations and projects

#TRIADvances.com Our own Tech Coaches' website full of ideas for using tech in school.

Images & Graphics (create your own)

**Citing Media

Licensing varies from site to site, so always check the license statement on the site or the statement attached to the image and cite your source.

AutoDraw AutoDraw is a new kind of drawing tool that pairs the magic of machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual, fast.

BeFunky Get creative with your photos using many fun and simple photo editing and effects.

EZGif Animated GIF editor and GIF maker.

FotoFlexer "FotoFlexer is the world's most advanced online digital photo editor. It performs advanced effects previously only available to professionals using expensive software."

GIMP An excellent open source, image manipulation tool. A good and free alternative to Photoshop.

Image Chef Allows you to create custom images by combining text, symbols and photos using a variety of online templates.

LunaPic With Lunapic you can adjust pictures, add borders, apply filters, add effects, create animations, and more!

PIXLR Make every moment beautiful with our family of photo editing apps.

SUMO Paint A professional image editor and painting software in your browser.

Images & Graphics

**Citing Media

The majority of the graphics found in the following sources are royalty-free or licensed under Creative Commons. What does this mean for you? It means copyright-friendly images at your fingertips that are ready for your presentations and other school work. As always, respect the work of others and cite the source.

Bing Images

Compfight Compfight is an image search engine tailored to efficiently locate images for blogs, comps, inspiration, and research.

Creative Commons Copyright-Friendly images and sound for us in media projects, webpages, blogs, wikis, etc.

Cupcake All photos here on www.cupcake.nilssonlee.se are licensed under the Creative Commons license CC0, which means that you are free to use the images without any costs.

DesignerPics "Hi-Res photos for your personal & commercial use."

Flikr Explore shared photos or upload photos of your own.

FOCA FOCA provides free CCO photography for personal and commercial use on websites, projects, themes, apps, and more.

KaboomPics Great place to get breathtaking images for business or personal projects - images available in multiple sizes and complimentary color palette is provided.

Life of Pix High-resolution photos for personal and commercial use.

Pexels Stock photos for personal and commercial use

Picography High resolution photos for personal or commercial use

Pixabay Pixabay content is copyright-free under Creative Commons CC0.

Unsplash High resolution images with simple download option

WorldImages Contains approximately 100,000 images from around the world in all areas of visual imagery - Recognized by the Library of Congress for its historic collection of Internet materials