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**DIGITAL AUDIO** Try one of these sites, but be conscientious of copyright...

> [|Incompetech Royalty Free Music] Kevin McLeod's searchable source of royalty free music.
 * [|Free Play Music] unbelievable sources of royalty free music, in aac and mp3 file formats AND you can choose the length of the music
 * [|Open Source Audio] from the Internet Archive
 * [|http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php] - music and more.
 * http://www.podsafeaudio.com/ commonly used for podcasts, a good place to find Creative Commons music
 * [|Adam Curry's Podsafe Music Network] used by artists to release their music copyright free
 * [|Opsound] click on //genres//. At Opsound musicians and sound artists are invited to add their work using a "copyleft" license developed by Creative Commons. Listeners are invited to download, share, remix, and reimagine.
 * [|Creative Commons ccMixter] Use ccMixter to download, cut up, remix & share
 * [|Classic Cat] (classical music)
 * [|FreeSound]

**Sound Effects**


 * [|Find Sounds] Search engine for sounds
 * [|Partners in Rhyme] : Free Sound Effects
 * [|SoundSnap]
 * http://www.findsounds.com/ - A great place to find sound effects, etc.

**DIGITAL GRAPHICS **

http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/ Flickr has one of the largest collections of user hosted photos
 * Flickr**

http://morguefile.com/ This site contains free high resolution digital stock photographs and reference images for either corporate or public use. The purpose is to provide free image reference material for illustrators, comic book artist, designers, teachers and all creative pursuits. BE SURE: when you download a file to use that you check the terms of use as well as the requests of the user....FOR EXAMPLE: http://morguefile.com/archive/?display=205914& is available for download with user request //If you download a photo, I would love to know what it's being used for. Send me an e-mail.// http://openphoto.net/ Click on search in the top bar or browse by category. There are lots of great images here http://www.fotogenika.net/modifica/igallery.asp The policy for Fotogenika.net is that The images may be used freely for personal, educational and non-profit projects; You may not use them commercially, claim authorship and/or sell them; You must not redistribute the images and files in any way designed for reuse; If you want to use them commercially, please contact the for more information The purpose of [|Incredible Art Department] is to promote art education. This is a great collection of art, images, and clip art in the public domain as well as information about public domain and how to check for copyright. http://pics.tech4learning.com/ This site contains a searchable collection of images that can be searched and each image contains a bibliographic citation. This is user created so please check the citation before posting http://www.imageafter.com/ is a large online free photo collection in which you can download and use any image or texture modify in any way you see fit, use in your own work, whether it be for personal or commercial use and redistribute or sell our images and textures ALTERED OR UNALTERED as part of printed work (e.g. posters, cd-covers, postcards etc but you CANNOT REDISTRIBUTE our images and textures as part of an online resource site [|Wikimedia Commons] is a database of [|freely usable] media files to which [|anyone can contribute]. Here is another list of content collections: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Content_Curators
 * Image Collections**
 * ====**The Morgue File**====
 * ====**OpenPhoto**====
 * **Fotogenika**
 * ====**The Incredible Art Department.**====
 * ====**Pix for Learning**====
 * ====**Image After**====
 * ====**Wikimedia**====

**Photo Sharing Sites**

 * [|Kodak Gallery]  Photo storage with the ability to organize, edit, and add borders, tints and other creative touches.
 * [|Snapfish]  All the above with the additional ability to create "group rooms" where all your staff, students, teachers, or fellow-library media specialists can add photos to one collection.
 * [|Flickr] One of the largest and most popular photo sharing sites, you can tag your photos, comment on the photos of others, search by tag or user, create (or use) RSS feeds , download images in multiple sizes, form sets, establish groups for sharing among colleagues, use geotags (location information, and much more. Many other web-based applications have been developed for Flickr (see Photo Ideas to Share )
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|Shutterfly] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 7.2pt; line-height: 150%;">In addition to being able to pick up your prints at your local Target, shutterfly offers an online community where you can share your work and see projects created by others as well as a blog full of ideas. Includes a <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|section on digital storytelling] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 7.2pt; line-height: 150%;">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|Picasa Web Albums] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 7.2pt; line-height: 150%;"> from Google. Upload and manage your photos. Public albums are searchable through Google image searching.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**More to Explore**

 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|DropShots] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> Photo and video sharing; sharing by invitation only.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|flauntR] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> Photo editing, slides shows, magazine covers, ecard generator and more.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|iPhoto] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">with . <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|Mac Web Gallery] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> (Mac only)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|Photobucket] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> Albums, slideshows and more.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|PicBite] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> Add speech bubbles to your images...lots of speech bubbles if you'd like..and animate them, too.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|PictureTrail] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> Photo sharing and slide show generator; very large selection of slide show styles.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|SmugMug] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> Ad-free storage and galleries.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|Tabblo] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> Lets you create posters, comics, photo cubes and other projects. Share, print or send them to Flickr.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|Webshots] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> Thousands of images to search, share, admire and then add your own. Create slideshows and desktop images.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|WinkFlash] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> Online storange and photo editing tools.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**DIGITAL VIDEO**
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"> **Online Video Editors**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Jaycut]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|EyeSpot]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Jumpcut]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Cuts]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Motionbox]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|YouTube Remixer: Adobe Premier Express]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">**Video Mashups**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Cool Starwars Mashup\]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|JibJab]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Animoto]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://www.vuvox.com/

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"> **Video Hosting Sites**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|http://teachertube.com]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|http://schooltube.com]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"> **Other TV 2.0**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|http://youtube.com]

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Create movies and slideshows from your photos:


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|MagToo] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> Create slideshows or stitch images together for panoramas. Add to a map!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Moonk]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|MyPlick]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Photoshow]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Slide]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|SlideRoll]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">[|Toufee]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;">[|30 Presentation and Slideshow Tools] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 150%;"> Compiled by Mashable

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Media Conversion sites**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> If you can't view YouTube at your school there are a number of conversion sites that can be used to download videos ahead of time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://www2.zamzar.com/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://media-convert.net/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://www.mediaconverter.org/
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">http://www.jodix.com/