Images+and+Sound+Resources

=Table of Contents= Good Places to Find Pictures and SoundsSearch Engines That Go Out to the Web for Picture and Other ImagesPhotographsSubject Specific DatabasesClipartAnimations - Very fun animations to include in PowerPointSound Files
 * NOTE: If you copy a picture from a website, make sure you copy the image at it's //full size// view. If you copy or download the image in the "thumbnail" view, it will appear fuzzy and "pixelly". This will make your project look like low quality work!** toc

=Good Places to Find Pictures and Sounds=

Search Engines That Go Out to the Web for Picture and Other Images
[| Teacher Tap List of Image Resources] [| Google Images] -Click once to get the image with it's page source. Click again on //full size image//. [|Yahoo Images] - Click once to get the image with it's page source. Click on the link that indicates //image url// to get the full size image. [|Ask Images] - Click once to get the image with it's page source. Click on the link that indicates //image url// to get the full size image. [|Clusty Image Search] - Click once to get the image with it's page source. The image, full size on a page is not available. When you click on the picture, you get the page it comes from. [|FlickrStorm] - Search on Flickr with key words [|picsearch] - Try this one! Click once to get the image with it's page source. Click on the link that indicates //image url// to get the full size image. [|Lycos Image Search] [|Ditto - See the web] [| PD Photo. org] - Royalty Free, Public Domain, Stock Photos

**Photographs**
Very good place to find photographs [|www.pics4learning.com] Sort of good place to find photographs [|www.freefoto.com] Try this one http://www.freephoto1.com/ [| Openphoto] http://o2.openphoto.net/ [|Getty Images] [|Corbis] [|Yotophoto] [|Big Photo] [|Old Pictures] [|Public Domain Pictures] [|stock.xchng] - free photography [|Flickr: Creative Commons] [|Free Digital Photos dot net]

**Subject Specific Databases**
[| American Memory] for United States history - awesome resource! [|Archives.gov - WWII Photos] [|World War II Poster Collection] [| Animal Pictures] [|Uncle Sam's Photos] - a directory of the US government's free photos [| Great Images in NASA] [| NASA Earth Observatory] [|Visible Earth] [|The Gateway to Astronaut Photography] - images taken from astronauts [|NASA Multimedia] [|Special Image Search Database List] - from kidsclick.org [|National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association Photo Library] [|Historical] [|Time Life] [| Images from Old Books]

Clipart
[| Classroom Clipart] Really commercial - beware, hard to find "FREE" [| Barry's Clipart] [|Discovery School Clipart] [|Flaming Text] - Super cool - create your own headings or banners [|Awesome clipart for kids and educators] - (you be the judge of that ) [|Back to School clipart] [|Classroom Clipart] - watch out for loads of pop-ups! [| Kid's Domain Clipart] [|Wise Gorilla] - Free educational clipart [|Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse] - all black and white drawn images
 * (look for "FREE")**

Animations - Very fun animations to include in PowerPoint
Kitty Roach is the artist http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/ani1.html Check out the dancing names! http://www.artie.com/ Nifty animations that can be used for PowerPoint, but hard to find the free ones http://www.animationfactory.com/ Flaming text - Set your headline on fire, along with other cool effects to download and use for presentations http://www.flamingtext.com/

Sound Files
[| Sound America] - every kind of sound file [| Search engines for all kinds of sounds] [|Freeplay Music] - to search by "feel" or type of music (Don't look here for songs by artists. This is background music.) This music can not be used for online projects. [|American Rhetoric] - For famous speeches [|Animal Sounds] [|Snoundsnap.com]