Images, Sounds, Video and Animations

Images, Sounds, Video and Animations T O O L B O X R E S O U R C E S F O R E D U C A T O R S Image Resources on the Internet

Free Images Sites The following sites offer images that can be freely used on most Web sites and other publications. However, many of these images are not in the public domain and have some use restrictions. Be sure to check the use restrictions at each of these Web sites. If you use any of these images, be sure to provide credit to the source, which should be noted underneath the image as well as a full citing on a separate page.

Image Collections http://bubl.ac.uk/link/types/images.htm An unbelievable annotated list of image resource sites appropriate for education—132 different sites at last count. When using these images for purposes beyond your classroom, be sure to check each site’s use restrictions. Although many of these sites contain images that are in the public domain or are freely available for non-commercial use, some have restrictions on their use. Also see its subject index (not just for images): http://bubl.ac.uk/link/menus.html.

Microsoft* Clip Gallery Live http://dgl.microsoft.com/ “Provided for the purpose of granting rights to licensed users of Microsoft Office… Examples of permissible use include, but are not limited to: newsletters, brochures, web sites, presentations, flyers, postcards, trade show materials, newspaper advertisements, product catalogs, and reports.”

Images of American Political History http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/index.htm A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History.

FreeFoto http://www.freefoto.com/ “FreeFoto.com is one of the largest collections of free photographs for non-commercial use on the Internet. The site features 40 main sections with over 600 sub headings. The photographs are free to private non-commercial users and for sale to commercial users. FreeFoto.com contains over 12,000 images with new pictures being added every week.” Credit images used to the FreeFoto.com web site using its logo linked back to freefoto.

FreeStockPhotos.com http://www.freestockphotos.com/ Download stock photographs absolutely free. Arranged in a variety of categories. Use in any website or publication you wish - personal or commercial, but must include the domain name: FreeStockPhotos.com along with each FreeStockPhotos.com picture used.

Zettweb Photo Site http://www.zettweb.com/grab-a-picture/ More than 3000 jpg pictures arranged by subject. Non-commercial use: web site, online, and multimedia designs; advertising and promotion campaigns; presentations and brochures; packaging for anything except software, books, CDs and cassettes, and videotapes. For all uses of images at this site, provide a credit: "Image © 1999 ZettWeb. All rights reserved." to appear adjacent to the images or in a credits comment.

AICT http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community. Arranged in the following categories: Ancient, Medieval Era, Renaissance & Baroque, and Non-Western.

Lantern Slides of Classical Antiquity http://csanet.org/lanterns/lantindx.html Bryn Mawr College grants the right to use these images for non-profit, non-commercial use in educational or academic settings to any scholar or student. The College does, however, retain the right to control use of these images in any printed product or for any commercial or fund- raising purpose.

The Society of Architectural Historians http://www.sah.org/imagex.html Somewhat difficult to navigate, but has a huge amount of resources for photographs and drawings of historical buildings. Most images can be used for non-profit educational use; republication must preserve the original credit for the source of the image. If any image is identified as “PR” (permission required), those images cannot be used without permission from the image provider. For easier access, categories are listed below: World Survey, Ancient through Medieval, plus early non-Europe: http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts1.html World Survey, Renaissance through Modern http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/wcapts2.html American Survey [1600-1779] [1780-1849] [1850-1899] [1900-1944] [1945-1976] [addendum of less consensual pedagogical favorites].

NIX (NASA Image eXchange) http://nix.nasa.gov/ “Photographs are not protected by copyright unless noted. If copyrighted, permission should be obtained from the copyright owner prior to use. If not copyrighted, photographs may be reproduced and distributed without further permission from NASA.”

Making of America http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/MOA/ The Making of America collection is comprised of the digitized pages of books and journals. This system allows you to view scanned images of the actual pages of the 19th century texts. All materials selected in the MOA project are no longer covered by copyright.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco http://www.thinker.org/fam/multilingual.html The Thinker Imagebase is a fully keyword searchable database; it contains 75,000 images from the collections of the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor. “If you would like to use an image from the ImageBase, or would like to request a publishable quality copy of an image in the ImageBase (35mm slide, 4x5 transparency, 8x10 print) please send email to [email protected]. Truly non-commercial uses are encouraged. We would, however, like to hear about them, mostly because we'd like to highlight your innovative educational uses of the collections. A non-commercial use is anything which does not include resale and is usually personal or educational in nature.”

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo Library http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/collections.html Well-organized site containing albums and catalogs of over 16,000 images. Great site covering 18 different subject categories. “Most NOAA photos and slides are in the public domain and CANNOT be copyrighted. Although at present, no fee is charged for using the photos credit MUST be given to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce unless otherwise instructed to give credit to the photographer or other source.”

U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pictures/Images http://pictures.fws.gov/ http://images.fws.gov/ Most the images on our Web pages are in the "public domain" (which means they have no copyright restrictions). If an image on our Web site is not restricted and does not say it is copyrighted, then you can assume it is in the public domain. You may download and use those copyright-free images in your print and electronic publications. There's no fee to pay (i.e., they're free), and no need to get permission from the Service for reusing them.”

Pics4Learning http://pics.tech4learning.com/pics/index.htm “The Pics4Learning collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images for use by students and teachers in an education setting. The original photographers of each image retain the copyright to these images and have graciously allowed their use in this collection. Images in the Pics4Learning collection may be used by teachers and students in print, multimedia, and video productions. These could include, but are not limited to, school projects, contests, web pages, and fund raising activities for the express purpose of improving student educational opportunities.”

American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ “The nature of historical archival collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine. Whenever possible, the Library provides information about copyright owners and other restrictions in the catalog records, finding aids, special-program illustration captions, and other texts that accompany collections. The Library provides such information as a service to aid patrons in determining the appropriate use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the patron.”

American Memory: Selected Civil War Photographs http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphome.html “There are no known restrictions on these photographs.”

American Memory: America from the Great Depression to WWII (1935-1945) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html “Photographs in this collection were taken by photographers working for the U.S. Government. Generally speaking, works created by U.S. Government employees are not eligible for copyright protection in the United States. While the Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright in the FSA/OWI Black-and-White Photos, there is a narrow possibility that a very small number of items may have copyrights associated with them Suggested credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USF35-1326]”

American Memory: Map Collections 1544-1999 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html “The maps in the Map Collections materials were either published prior to 1922, produced by the United States government, or both (see catalogue records that accompany each map for information regarding date of publication and source). The Library of Congress is providing access to these materials for educational and research purposes and is not aware of any U.S. copyright protection or any other restrictions in the Map Collection materials.”

FDR Library & Digital Archives http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/photos.html Copyright-free pictures of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the depression and New Deal, and World War II.

U.S. Air Force Photos http://www.af.mil/photos/ “Information presented on Air Force Link is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.”

U.S. Navy Online Library http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm “To the best of our knowledge, all Online Library pictures are in the public domain and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose without requesting permission.”

Discovery School’s Clip Art Gallery http://school.discovery.com/clipart/index.html Permission is granted to download no more than ten different clip art images for non-revenue- producing use on hard copy documents or on Web sites with the following restrictions: Any reproduction must be unaltered from its original downloaded form. This includes, but is not limited to, colorization, cropping, or editing. Any use of clip art images on Web sites must credit Discoveryschool.com or include a link to the Discoveryschool.com Web site.

Icon Bazaar http://www.iconbazaar.com/ Lots of clip art and animations. “Limited permission is granted for institutional use of up to twenty (20) images in toto from these archives by WWW developers representing not-for-profit organizations, governmental organizations or educational institutions. Copyright notification should be included wherever appropriate.”

Graphics Libraries http://www.net-ads.com/development/graphics.html Nice list of links to graphics libraries with extensive annotations of each.

Amazing Instant Online Animated 3D Text Maker http://www.3dtextmaker.com/ Creates a text banner with your own text, then you can save the image as you would any other online image (right-click...). Animations only work on Web pages and PowerPoint 2000 (and PowerPoint 97 if you have a special plug-in).

Image Services

MIRA http://www.mira.com/ Mira, which stands for Media Image Resource Alliance, is an online stock image service offered by Copyright Clearance Center, the largest licenser of reproduction rights for text in the world. MIRA provides image buyers with the opportunity to license high quality, rights-protected images for a wide variety of uses. Includes photos from the Washington Post and cartoons from the New Yorker. Free image research is available from their archive experts.

ArtToday http://www.arttoday.com/ The largest graphics resource on the web—at last count, 1.2 million images. 3-day free trial or $29.95/year for unlimited downloads. Includes clip art, photos, fonts, WebArt, and sounds. Although ArtToday content can be used in commercial or noncommercial projects, see usage restrictions at: http://www.arttoday.com/PD-0025110/Main/company/Main/company/usage. Note underneath the image used: © 2000-(current year) www.arttoday.com

Aurora Photos http://www.auroraphotos.com/ Aurora Photos is a one-stop solution for researching, finding and buying images.

Corbis Images BizPresenter http://www.bizpresenter.com/ Royalty-Free http://www.corbisimages.com/search/ReadyToBuyEvents/fstDefault.asp The sections of Corbis that allows use of its images on the Web and other publications (for a fee). See terms and conditions at http://www.bizpresenter.com/termsconditions.asp, including the link to the BizPresenter License Agreement.

Artcyclopedia http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html The fine art search engine. Search by artist name, artwork by title, or art museums by name or location. Or browse by movement, medium, subject, or nationality. Wow. Images are not copyright-free. See each individual museum site for usage restrictions.

Smithsonian http://www.si.edu The Smithsonian Institution ("SI"), and its Office of Printing & Photographic Services ("OPPS") image files are made available for non-commercial, personal use. Copying or redistribution in any manner for personal or corporate gain is not permitted. Images may be put on a file server in one’s school, company, museum, etc. only if there's no charge for the user. All the accompanying text information, caption, etc. must be included, and must be presented completely and unchanged. Images cannot be placed on a CD-ROM, public domain or otherwise. See additional usage rules at: http://www.si.edu/siphotos/CAPTIONS/oppsrules.html

Music and Sounds Audio

Sounds and music found through the resources listed below can usually be used in your classroom under the Fair Use provision, but not necessarily for wider publication (like posting on the Web). Be sure to check the use restrictions at each of these Web sites and/or to the sites they link to. If you use any sounds from these sources, be sure to provide credit.

Sound Search Engines

Lycos Multimedia Search Engine http://multimedia.lycos.com/ Click on "Sounds" and type in the sound you want to find (e.g., thunder).

AltaVista Audio Search Engine http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?cn=med Click the radial button next to "MP3/Audio." Note: MP3 files can not be imported into PowerPoint.

Lycos Multimedia Search http://multimedia.lycos.com/ Click on the Sounds radial button.

Go.com Image Search http://www.go.com/ Click the audio/video radial button before clicking search to search.

Sound Archives

Big Chalk's Multimedia Audio Resources http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi- bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/17/wa/BCPageDA/sec~STU~39804~~ Great resource for a variety of educational audio files: historical, international, interviews, lectures, literary, music, nature and culture, news and commentary, professional and special interest, science, sports, and miscellaneous. Note: Although links are not a part of Big Chalk, they are framed within Big Chalk. Be sure to note the actual URL listed at the top part of the window when citing your source. Check copyright and usage restrictions for each site.

Web Places: Sound Clips http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm Sites with sounds to download, listed by category and type of sound files available.

Fine Art & Multimedia http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/multimed/ A collection of images, sounds, and animations.

Classical Midi Archives http://www.prs.net/midi.html Midi files categorized by classical composers

Digital Audio Files http://www.weblust.com/sounds/SoundTop.html Sound files in the following categories: historical sound bytes (Neil Armstrong first steps on the moon, etc.), sound FX (a smattering of smashes, crashes, buzzes, rings, and other effects), and music bytes.

Acadia Sound Archive http://plato.acadiau.ca/sandbox/ppt/sounds/sound.htm

Midi World http://www.midiworld.com Lots of resources and links for midi files.

Microsoft Sound Downloads http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/topic.asp?url=/msdn- files/028/000/124/topic.xml Free sound downloads from Microsoft (wav and midi).

Annie's Place http://www.buffnet.net/%7eambrosia/home.htm? Specializing in music wav clips from the 50's and 60's

Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net http://members.tripod.com/Thryomanes/AnimalSounds.html

The Daily WAV www.dailywav.com Music and sound clips. Not organized by category so may be difficult to use unless you know specifically what you're looking for, but has some very funny sound clips. Has both wav files and good quality midi files.

The Looney Tunes Sound Source http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/ Name says it all.

Zettweb Photo Site http://www.zettweb.com/grab-a-picture/

Video Clips

Video clips found through the resources listed below can usually be used in your classroom under the Fair Use provision, but not necessarily for wider publication (like posting on the Web). Be sure to check the use restrictions at each of these Web sites and/or to the sites they link to. If you use any videos from these sources, be sure to provide credit.

Video Search Engines

Lycos Multimedia Search: Pictures, Movies, Sound http://multimedia.lycos.com/ Click on the radial button next to movies and enter a search term.

AltaVista Video Finder http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?cn=med Click on the radial button next to video and enter a search term.

Yahoo’s Multimedia Video Collection Sites http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Multimedia/Digital_Video/ http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Multimedia/MPEG/ A list of Web sites that collect videos. Not specifically searchable.

Go.com http://www.go.com Click on the radial button next to audio/video and enter a search term.

Video Archives Space Movie Archive http://graffiti.u-bordeaux.fr/MAPBX/roussel/anim-e_07.shtml A fabulous, amazing site with every type of space-related video/movie that you could want. Literally 100's of movies with space as the topic. Scroll down to the categories. Here's a partial listing: Solar eclipses, Meteorology, Science-Fiction, Star Trek, Shoemaker-Levy, Solar system bodies, Satellites, rockets and space probes, Space, STS Flights, Apollo missions. Most movies are MPEGS.

QuickTime Videos (.mov) http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/multimed/qtanim/ Uncategorized list of unrelated movie files.

MPEG Videos http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/multimed/anim/ Uncategorized list of unrelated MPEG files.

Financial Multimedia http://fisher.osu.edu/fin/clips.htm Pictures and video clips that cover finance topics. Free for educational use.

NCSA: Science Theater Animations and Images http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/newtest/index.ncsa.html?Info=http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ SDG/DigitalGallery/DG_science_theater.html,Nav=/newtest/ncsaNav.html,navIcon= ncsaNav,infoIcon=infoNode Very nice site from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) that includes mpeg videos of science-related animations. Click on the thumbnail image to go to a page that describes, in detail, the animation as well as the downloadable MPEG file (click on image to download). Videos for earth science, fluid dynamics, medical science, planetary science, and volume visualization.

Apollo Mission Movies http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/movies1.html A collection of avi and mov video clips from the Apollo missions.

The Electronic Universe Project: Galaxy Gallery Page http://zebu.uoregon.edu/movie.html Movies that show a variety of encounters in the galaxy. e.g., "encounter between two equal mass galaxy disks which interact via different orbital plane geometries."

Warsaw University, Poland: Index of /multimedia/mpeg http://mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/thant/arc.html A variety of mpeg movies. No type of order.

Saturn's Ring System: Animations http://ringmaster.arc.nasa.gov/saturn/saturn.html#ANIMATIONS QuickTime movies of Saturn's rings. One .qt file and two .mov files. Also includes images and other references.

CSU Hayward Student Animations Winter 94 http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/tebo/Anims/README.html Original digital videos created by students at Calif. State University, Hayward. If used, definitely needs full copyright citing.

3D volume morphing http://graphics.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/alumni/tolis/personal/getpage.cgi?morph.html Includes mpeg movies of image morphing, the construction of an image sequence depicting a gradual transition between two images.

Chemist's Art Gallery http://www.csc.fi/lul/chem/graphics.html Visualization movies (MPEGs) and animations in chemistry done at the Visualization and Animation Laboratory at Center for Scientific Computing (CSC), Finland. Plus links to other sites.

Movies and Animations http://astrowww.astro.indiana.edu/animations/ Astronomy animations.

Computer-Enhanced Science Education: The Whole Frog Project http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/Whole.Frog/Whole.Frog.html The site where you can interactively dissect a (digitized) frog named Fluffy, make movies, and play the Virtual Frog Builder Game. Includes a Rotating, Transparent Frog Movie.

Robot Demos (MPEG) http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/robotics-mpegs.html A list of demo movies culled from the Web showing robots in action. Each movie is also listed with its accompanying parent page, so you can find out more about the video clip.

The Robotics Video Gallery http://www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/video-gallery.html

Jet Propulsion Lab Images and Videos http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/proto/images.html Images and videos by category: Earth, solar system, stars and galaxies, technology, spacecraft, and deep space network. "JPL images are available for use by the public free of charge... JPL's image release policy is located at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/policy/index.html."

NASA JPL - Ocean Surface Topography from Space: Gallery http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/gallery.html Includes ocean-related videos. "JPL images are available for use by the public free of charge... JPL's image release policy is located at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/policy/index.html . The credit line should read 'Courtesy of NASA/JPL/Caltech'. We would also really appreciate copies of publications where you use our imagery."

Modified from the Intel Teach to the Future program.