Media Mania: Graphics/Images

Finding Open Educational Resources (OER) by OPEN (Open Professionals Education Network). This is the BEST one-stop resources to search for open educational resources.

Posted by Ellyssa Kroski on the Online Education Database (OEDB) on 09/26/11.

From "Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day".

By Whitson Gordon for lifehacker.com

For different types of cameras and different types of photos from Shutterfly.com

By Med Kharbach, the founder and editor of Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.

Posted by Ellyssa Kroski on the Online Education Database (OEDB) on 12/11/12.

Photo editing for websites and mobile apps.

Virtual posters, images, and more!

Easily remove image backgrounds online at this free site.

Free online photo editor.

Editable images for fun (also great for Canvas dashboard images)

Easy-to-use infographics maker

Free online photo editor. No registration needed.

Reviews of seven online photo editors by Richard Byrne at FreeTech4Teachers.com

Free online collaborative web whiteboard that can be used on all devices with internet access.

Posted by Richard Byrne in his "Free Technology for Teachers" blog on 4/11/14.

Download free software for creating 3D models and drawings.

Free downloadable graphics editing software from Google.

The internet’s source of freely useable images.

Instructions on how to create a stop motion animation videos

From Richard Byrne's 03/04/13 post on his "Free Technology for Teachers" blog.

From Richard Byrne's 08/12/11 post on his "Free Technology for Teacher's" blog.

Selected and reviewed by Richard Byrne. From 12/05/13 post on his "Free Technology for Teachers" blog/website.

Article from the Online Education Database that contains reviews of and links to 9 data visualization tools.

By Eric Griffith at 08/19/14 post to PCMag.com website.

Richard Byrne's blog post on "Free Technology for Teachers" on 01/11/13.

By Lisa Chesser for TeachThought.com

"Helping you do cool stuff with your digital photos since 2005."

Enter search term in empty box and click on search button. After you get the results list, then use the "license" drop-down menu to select public domain images.

Create a screenshot of a fake TV newscast featuring breaking news. From ClassTools.net

"Our website allows you to make a cartoon of yourself. You can cartoonize your photo in one click. It is very easy and totally free! You need simply to select your photo from the button below, and in the second step you choose the cartoon effect."

Lesson ideas and templates using political cartoons. Presented by NIEonline.com and the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

"The online royalty free public domain clip art." Allows some online editing of clip art.

Easy-to-use online comic creator from ReadWriteThink.org Comics can be printed out.

"FREE graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly. Cool Text also has a free font archive of over 1,900 fonts. Download and use them for free!"

Posted on "Edutech for Teachers" on 07/18/15.

Search for graphics and music with creative commons licensing. "Do not assume that the results displayed in this search portal are under a CC license. You should always verify that the work is actually under a CC license by following the link."

The Digital Public Library of America makes materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the country available in one place. Discover 47,113,728 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States. This is a site filled with treasures!

Free for educational and non-profit use. See link for Copyright and Use Information.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/

"Everystockphoto.com is a license-specific photo search engine. Currently we index and search millions of freely licensed photos, from many sources, and present them in an integrated search."

From Richard Byrne's 3/3/13 post on his "Free Technology for Teachers" blog.

Collection of photographs. Copyright or Creative Commons restrictions may apply so read them before using.

Copyright-free photographs.

Cartoons by Mark Anderson. Free with certain restrictions.

For educational and non-profit use.

"Our free photos and illustrations are ideal for business, personal and educational use. Every image is free, with an option to buy larger images at reasonable prices." Must be willing to give credit to the artist who created it and to FreeDigitalPhotos.net.

By Priit Kallas for DreamGrow.com

Find Free Vectors, PSD files, Icons and photos.

"Here we offer a free collection of PowerPoint design templates, PowerPoint pictures, animations and illustrations ready for download and use." If used, add the attribution: PowerPoint template provided by fppt.com

"The purpose of this site is simply to share photographs and materials that everyone can freely use for non-commercial projects. To look through the images, you may go to the Image Gallery or use the image listings on the left side of this page. Slide presentations have their own gallery." Read the Terms of Use for restrictions on using the photos.

Some images may be embedded free of charge provided they are for non-commercial use. See their Terms of Agreement for more info.

Create free online graphic organizers.

By Richard Byrne on his "Free Technology for Teachers" blog on 05/06/14.

"A FREE self-paced guide to creating animated GIFs that explain your ideas quickly." from CommonCraft.com

"IconBug is currently serving up some 10,000 Free Icons and it's content is growing daily."

"This page features items from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. Each set of content is based on a theme and is first featured on the Library's home page. These sets are just a small sample of the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse. The digital collections comprise millions of items including books, newspapers, manuscripts, prints and photos, maps, musical scores, films, sound recordings and more. Whenever possible, each collection has its own rights statement which should be consulted for guidance on use. Learn more about copyright and the Library's collections."

"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today." For personal non-commercial use only.

Free online tool for creating logos that you can download and save.

"Create your own comix strip."

"More than 25,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use."

Over 25,000 black & white public domain/Creative Commons licensed icons that are free to download and use by properly attributing the icon designer. Black and white icons can be colorized using something like Inkscape.org

Make your own "For Dummies" book covers with this online graphics creator.

Free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. Also lists photos from Shutterstock.com that have to be paid for.

Free online photos that can be linked to in your blog or website.

"Search now to download properly attributed, Creative Commons images for school!"

Free online way to add speech bubbles to your photos and other graphics.

Pics4Learning is a curated image library that is copyright safe and free for teachers and students. You can use the copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for classroom projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting.

Create free infographics online.

"You can freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use, without attribution requirement to the original author."

"World's best way to make comics."

Some of the graphics are free to use, others can be purchased.

Customizable pulp magazine cover generator.

"Uniquely free photos. Handpicked, non-stocky images. Yours to use as you wish."

Post by Richard Byrne on 03/24/14.

"Choose from thousands of photos licensed in multiple categories such as nature, abstract, models and many more. All photos are free for personal and commercial use. No attribution required."

"Word clouds with style." You can enter a URL or a search and it will create a word cloud. There are options for customizing the look of the word cloud.

By Jennifer Gonzales for the Cult of Pedagogy.

Overlays words of your selection (word clouds) on top of graphic that you upload.

Make your images interactive graphics.

From Richard Byrne of "Free Technology for Teachers". Here is link to Flickr CC Attribution Helper mentioned in the video. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flickr-cc-attribution-hel/gcnphdhkhoepofbahkgfifigellgklbp?hl=en

Vintage public domain images.

"All low res images on this site are freely available for download for personal, academic teaching or study use, under one of two Creative Commons licences. For further details please see our Terms of Use. Hi-res historical images are also available to download from this site free of charge, for any usage, under a Creative Commons Attribution Only – CC-BY licence."

Fun website where you can create your own road signs, stickynotes, speech bubbles, and more and then download them to your computer.

Low-cost word cloud creator for Apple devices that can't use Flash in Wordle.

From Wordle.net

"We're the super sonic, thrifty, all-in-one picture finder, re-sizer and attribution builder for bloggers."

Awesome video and presentation creator and editor