Outstanding Online Resources

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Resources for Graphics & Images

media searches

How do you find pictures, videos, and sound clips for your projects? Try these media search engines.

Google Image Search Tab
http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=
Use your normal search strategies to get galleries of thumbnails that match your query. Click on the thumbnail to get a slightly larger image and the context in which the picture is found on the web. Click on the image to view the original image. Click/hold (Mac) or right-click (PC) the image and choose to download or copy the image.

Pics4Learning
http://www.pics4learning.com
This is a great resource for students and educators with copyright-friendly pictures that are housed in well-organized database. Click on the thumbnail to view the original image. Click/hold (Mac) or right-click (PC) the image and choose to download or copy the image. Bibliographical information is listed right on the page.

AlltheWeb - media search engine
http://www.alltheweb.com/
Use this search engine to locate MP3, video, or picture files

AltaVista - media
http://www.altavista.com

clipart, pictures, icons

Download or create images on some of these free sites.

Corbis.com
http://www.corbisimages.com/search/ReadyToBuyEvents/fstDefault.asp
This site has fabulous graphics that are available for purchase. If you'd like to use a comp version with their logo on it, it is available free of charge.

Flaming Text
http://www.flamingtext.com/
Create banners and headings using various effects that are available on this site.

MediaBuilder.com
http://www.mediabuilder.com

Sam's Project of Free Graphics Sites (2000)
http://hale.pepperdine.edu/~ssakaimi/datamining/

presentation tools

Presenter's University -
http://www.presentersuniversity.com/index.cfm
Presentation tips, free Powerpoint templates, and other presentation resources.

image editing

It is possible to resize, filter, modify GIFs with this online tool.

MediaBuilder.com
http://www.mediabuilder.com

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