Multimedia

Last updated 28th July 2006

Images and animation
Sound effects and music
Video

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Wikipedia Media Page - "a database of 711,083 media files to which anyone can contribute". It's all there - videos, images and sound.

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Images and animation

Getty Images - Literally thousands of royalty-free photos and illustrations.

Creative commons - "Full copyright applies to most stuff on the web. But this search helps you find photos, music, text, and other works whose authors want you to re-use it for some uses -- without having to pay or ask permission".

Google Images - Bigger than Getty Images but with potential copyright issues.

Picsearch.com - Search engine for graphics and images.

imagespeller.com - Type in any word and see it spelled out in different types of letters formed by various images.

Flickr Creative Commons - Free to use images for non-profit purposes.

openphoto.net - Free to use images for non-profit purposes.

Stock Exchange - Free to use images for non-profit purposes.

jasonhawkes.com - Stunning aerial photography of impressive buildings and landscapes.

animationfactory.com - A range of clipart and animations to use in onscreen presentations and in making worksheets more interesting.

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Sound effects and music

matthawkins.co.uk - Sound effects of all kinds; from transport to household and fighting noises.

a1freesideeffects.co.uk - Animals, weather, sports and people.

Nottingham Council Library - Links to several websites with freely downloadable MP3 and WAV sound effect files.

Creative commons - as above: free to use music, photographs and text.

allofmp3.com Very cheap and legal (according to the BBC) MP3 download site: entire albums available for just over 60p and indvidual tracks cost around 10p. As at 4th April 2006 there were 500,000 tracks listed.

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Video

Open Source Movies - Around 20,000 movies of different types.

BBC Broadband - You need a password for this site but there are hundreds of clips, which are searchable by QCA module or topic.

BBC Schools Archive - Multimedia clips that can be edited online - this great fun!

Open Video Project - Another postential source of video for use on IWBs or in the ICT suite.

Windows Movie Maker Tutorial - A useful starting point for teachers wanting to learn more about Windows Movie Maker.

Scran - "Scran is a learning resource base and toolset with 336,500 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media."

BBC History Clips - Great stuff but there isn't much of it.

BBC Motion Gallery - A reasonable number of free video reels on a variety of subjects.

Pathe News - 3,500 hours of news dating from 1896 to 1970.

British Universities Film Database - List of over 170,000 news items and links to many online video sources.

Getty Images Film Archive - As with Getty Images but moving pictures.

French Pathe Archive - Similar to the British Pathe News Archive.

Learning Curve - Great for WWII and British Empire clips.

Centre for British Film and Television Studies - Browse by theme or keyword. Especially good for public information films.

British Universities Film Gateway - Collates many different sources and allows user to search in one sitting.

IWF - 8,500 scientific clips for teachers and researchers, many with storyboard and online editing function.

PBS - Nova Science programming on a variety of subjects.

Education Media Online - Film and sound for download plus an online sound and picture studio.

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