7/1/08 - pretty good.
30/12/07 - A huge number of images
30/12/07 - Dozens of images: search by category
30/12/07 - "Welcome to the largest virtual zoo in the world with hundreds of your favourite animals. We have more animal pictures and animal facts than you can see in a day so come back often." Great for animal photos and factfiles.
16/12/07 - Clipart and displays
16/12/07 - A range of useful clipart in dozens of different categories.
12/12/07 - Planning, resources, weblinks, activities, poems, clipart.
4/12/07 - Dozens of Christmas weblinks - searchable for activities, games, colouring, non-fiction, planning, resources, clipart, music, video and fun stuff.
02/12/07 - Games and Christmas Clipart
25/11/07 - Ronseal!
23/11/07 - Ronseal!
13/11/07 - Free clipart submitted by users of this site. 1,000s of images with more interest than MS standard.
27/10/07 - Ronseal
15/9/07 - Ronseal!
13/9/07 - Brilliant if you need templates or ideas.
9/9/07 - Clipart using stickmen
1/9/07 - Images depicting over 300 different emotions/facial expressions.
1/9/07 - totally free clipart, easy to navigate site
1/9/07 - Ronseal
26/8/07 - Search engine for graphics and images.
26/8/07 - Bigger than Getty Images but with potential copyright issues.
26/8/07 - Literally thousands of royalty-free photos and illustrations (basically, clipart).
As it says really... An online, multimedia scrapbook like a very easy-to-use wikispace. Perfect for ICT clubs and advanced KS2 pupils.
Although the title over-sells the site slightly, you'll find a great many free images.
A large database of free clipart for teachers.
Large images suitable for flashcards or displays - complete with German, Italian, Spanish and French titles.
18/2/08 - An easy way of discovering new media files, word documents or PDF files. Not so much a search engine as a tip...
16/1/08 - Apparently 10.8 million of them!
30/12/07 - "Welcome to the largest virtual zoo in the world with hundreds of your favourite animals. We have more animal pictures and animal facts than you can see in a day so come back often." Great for animal photos and factfiles.
27/10/07 - Ronseal
30/9/07 - Handy!
23/9/07 - Teachers' Domain is an online educational service with two related components — Collections and Courses — that help teachers enhance their students' learning experiences and advance their own teaching skills.
9/9/07 - An extensive collection of photographs of religious artefacts from all major world religions.
26/8/07 - "Scran is a learning resource base and toolset with 336,500 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media." Subscription site.
26/8/07 - Free to use images for non-profit purposes.
26/8/07 - Free to use images for non-profit purposes.
26/8/07 - Free to use images for non-profit purposes.
26/8/07 - Type in any word and see it spelled out in different types of letters formed by various images.
26/8/07 - Search engine for graphics and images.
26/8/07 - Bigger than Getty Images but with potential copyright issues.
"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".
26/8/07 - Literally thousands of royalty-free photos and illustrations (basically, clipart).
26/8/07 - Handy for high quality space pictures.
26/8/07 - "A site for everybody interested in animals in the UK". High quality images, key facts and other information on animals and their habitats.
17/8/07 - Ronseal!
7/8/07 - Hihg resolution landscape images intended for use as backgrounds but could also be used for other ICT and Art purposes.
Play around with photographs - turn them into sketches, see how aliens perceive us and more.
"Copyright-friendly images for education" - mainly JPEG quality photographs.
There is so much here you just have to have a look. Create your own mosaics and motivational posters using your images or Flickr users'. Play photograph-related games. Make CD and Magazine covers or a photograph cube. Warhol-ise or Hockneyise pictures
"Convert an image and process to a text file of the original image. Convert picture to text. Ascii Art. ascii photo, ascii image, ascii convertion, asciiart, ascii picture, convert image text, image to text, image to ascii, picture to text"
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You never know when you might want to create one of these! Uses over a thousand images from Flickr to create any image you upload.
Mostly very high quality / resolution images of plants and animals.
List of free images websites.
Dozens of high-quality photographs to inspire you in creating your displays.
Another site with examples of primary school displays. Well worth a look; especially for EY.
A free-to-use website for primary school teachers. Loads of colourful ideas for displays across the curriculum.
Edit photos online - free service.
Some interesting PowerPoint files for introductions and plenaries, plus some useful files for KS2. Not a bad site but lacking in primary-level content.
As it says really... An online, multimedia scrapbook like a very easy-to-use wikispace. Perfect for ICT clubs and advanced KS2 pupils.
Loads of different locations across the planet.
"Learning Curve" site for history from KS2 to KS5. Loads of useful information and resources.
Great history resources.
An easy-to-use and entertaining site with high quality materials and resources for children and teachers. Each section offers worksheets, images and weblinks.
Stunning aerial photography of impressive buildings and landscapes.
Wonderful abstract backgrounds ideal for inspiration or PowerPoint backgrounds.
Great site with an illustrated glossary, photographs of items from the Tate collection - all fully searchable. Plus fun and games for children.
An online gallery for schools to share art created by their pupils. Plus lots of weblinks and images.
Artists and their works, styles of painting and links to over 2,000 art sites.
1,000s of copyright-free images on many different subjects.
Worcestershire Grid for Learning's very useful art portal.
2/3/08 - Find and share animated GIF files.
28/11/07 - although not obscene, not for children.
17/11/07 - 1000s of GIFs on this site
26/8/07 - "400,000+ Royalty Free Animations, 3D Clip Art, Backgrounds, PowerPoint Templates, and Video Clips". Not bad at all!
"Free animated gifs - 3D gif animations- free gifs - freestuff"
26/8/07 - Free animated gif files - cracking!
Free animated gif, graphic animation, icon, and clipart - great stuff!
Although Susan no longer updates this site, the content is of high quality and adds fun to your IWB resources. You can easily add the files to your PowerPoint, Flipchart and Smart documents.
18/2/08 - An easy way of discovering new media files, word documents or PDF files. Not so much a search engine as a tip...
3/2/08 - From Primary Teacher UK: "CBBC me and my movie is a unique film-making initiative inspiring and enabling children to make movies and tell their own stories. The website provides fun, interactive film-making tutorials and a safe space where childr
13/12/07 - Download videos from Youtube etc into .flv (flash video) format usable in Smart, PowerPoint or Promethean.
4/12/07 - Dozens of Christmas weblinks - searchable for activities, games, colouring, non-fiction, planning, resources, clipart, music, video and fun stuff.
2/12/07- Handy - can then be inserted into Smart documents.
28/11/07 - Flash movie useful for setting and description or predicting endings. Emmeline lives somewhere that doesn't exist. She is ignored and has no friends. To begin with... Halloween.
14/11/07 - Ronseal! Also useful for downloads.
13/11/07 - Kent GfL Video links. Reviewed, decent sites.
2/10/07 - Science videos and an experiment per week.
26/9/07 - "Language of the month" packs with introductory resources for most languages. Great site. Videos, IWB stuff and display resources.
23/9/07 - Teachers' Domain is an online educational service with two related components — Collections and Courses — that help teachers enhance their students' learning experiences and advance their own teaching skills.
10/9/07 - From Pixar, short videos which could be easily used in English lessons or as a timefiller.
9/9/07 - Youtube for Schools: "SchoolTube is a network of students, educators, and professionals working together to foster video production and internet publishing in a safe online learning environment."
1/9/07 - Currently in its infancy, this NESTA backed site will become a decent resource very quickly because it aims to host a wealth of science experiments, demonstrated by serving teacheras, on digital video.
29/8/07 - Would be excellent for upper KS2 children or ICT clubs. Create videos using better special effects than Windows Movie Maker - most of the work is done automatically by the site! Basic accounts are free.
26/8/07 - Film and sound for download plus an online sound and picture studio.
26/8/07 - Nova Science programming on a variety of topics.
26/8/07 - 8,500 scientific clips for teachers and researchers, many with storyboard and online editing function.
26/8/07 - Collates many different sources and allows user to search in one sitting.
26/8/07 - Browse by theme or keyword. Especially good for public information films.
26/8/07 - Great for WWII and British Empire clips.
26/8/07 - Similar to the British Pathe News Archive.
26/8/07 - As with Getty Images but moving pictures.
26/8/07 - List of over 170,000 news items and links to many online video sources.
26/8/07 - 3,500 hours of news dating from 1896 to 1970.
26/8/07 - A reasonable number of free video reels on a variety of subjects.
26/8/07 - Great stuff but there isn't much of it.
26/8/07 - "Scran is a learning resource base and toolset with 336,500 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media." Subscription site.
26/8/07 - A useful starting point for teachers wanting to learn more about Windows Movie Maker. Successfully used with Upper KS2 pupils in a lunchtime club.
26/8/07 - Another postential source of video for use on IWBs or in the ICT suite.
26/8/07 - Multimedia clips that can be edited online - this great fun!
26/8/07 - You need a password for this site but there are hundreds of clips, which are searchable by QCA module or topic.
26/8/07 - Around 20,000 movies of different types.
23/8/07 - Ronseal!
BBC - Cult - Retro BBC - Title sequences and theme tunes for many programs from the past.
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"Social Video Search Engine and Video Bookmarking". Search across multiple platforms for video files. Includes Youtube, Google, Reuters and more.
High quality news footage available for free download.
History of presentation, title sequences, adverts, public information films, schools tv etc...
Ideal for bias / perception of sources.
3D animations, Adverts and trailers.
Youtube for teachers - great stuff!
As it says really... An online, multimedia scrapbook like a very easy-to-use wikispace. Perfect for ICT clubs and advanced KS2 pupils.
Does what it says on the tin! Found on primaryteacheruk.co.uk
Loads of different locations across the planet.
Media Education website for teachers and students. Good section on using digital video in the classroom. Information on TV, radio, newspapers etc.
A site designed for educators to share experiences of working with digital video.
A huge collection of news and film clips from the BBC, CBS, ABC and NHK (Japan)
"The Moving History web site is a research guide to the United Kingdom’s twelve public sector film archives and provides a showcase for their collections. Moving History's role is to show, describe and provide links to these key collections located arou
"Learning Curve" site for history from KS2 to KS5. Loads of useful information and resources.
25/2/08 - ‘free’ music available from the National Education Network (via WMNet) - only accessible via school networks - over 6000 recordings from known and unknown artists.
18/2/08 - An easy way of discovering new media files, word documents or PDF files. Not so much a search engine as a tip...
29/1/08 - Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects plus free music loops, free sound effects, free midi files and free audio software
10/1/08 - Mostly, I hope, legitimate.
4/12/07 - Dozens of Christmas weblinks - searchable for activities, games, colouring, non-fiction, planning, resources, clipart, music, video and fun stuff.
02/12/07 - Ronseal! If they're online, you can find them. Also works for games, films and PDFs.
21/11/07 - Huge variety of sound effects, music and loops.
13/11/07 - Audacity / garage band friendly samples and loops (drums, bass effects etc)
2/10/07 - Site no longer updated but loads of theme tunes to find.
26/9/07 - Nearly every TV theme tune you could imagine; varying degrees of quality but brilliant nonetheless.
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.
26/8/07 - "Scran is a learning resource base and toolset with 336,500 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media." Subscription site.
"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".
Seems as if it's all acoustic but it's great quality mood music for classroom learning / background music and to enhance multimedia presentations. Also useful for providing examples of different genres.
Search for FREE and legitimate music - samples/ give-aways etc. Impressive engine if you're looking for MP3 quality music from Rock, Pop or Classical (I haven't tested it with anything else but imagine it would do a decent job).
Broadcast Production Music Library, Free and Mp3 Music Downloads, See Usage Terms.
11/3/08 - "Welcome to SoundTransit. SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography." Welcome to SoundTransit.You are now in the “Search” section.SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community ded
25/2/08 - Seems to be a lot here.
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29/1/08 - Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects plus free music loops, free sound effects, free midi files and free audio software
21/11/07 - Huge variety of sound effects, music and loops.
2/10/07 - As it says.
26/8/07 - Links to several websites with freely downloadable MP3 and WAV sound effect files.
26/8/07 - Animals, weather, sports and people.
26/8/07 - Sound effects of all kinds; from transport to household and fighting noises.
26/8/07 - "Scran is a learning resource base and toolset with 336,500 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media." Subscription site.
23/8/07 - Search engine for sounds of all kinds
14/8/07 - Brilliantly simple search facility for sound effect files.
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Loads of free WAV files for your multimedia bits and pieces.
1,000s of free WAV files from films, TV shows and famous people. Plus many random categories such as sports and news events from the past.