Students

Digital Media Resources

	Important Copyright Information: Your credit information should be in the opening credits and include the following notice:
	Creative Commons: Learn about how media is licensed for use by others.

Additonally, each image used must have the name of the copyright owner attached to the image. Provide the following information if available (author, title, publisher, and place and date of publication).

~From Legal Issues for School Librarians

There are many online tools for creating media and digital storytelling.

Here's a list of a few good ones. There are many more. Online tools change all the time. Don't be limited by this list, but give them a try. Find the best tool to tell the story you want to tell.

Storyboard paper: useful for planning your project.

VoiceThread: use your network username and password	ThingLink: create interactive images (all ages)
PowToon for Edu: works with Google Drive (all ages)	Animoto: add images and sound, create a movie (13+)(14-day trial)
Popcorn Maker: Remix and make pop-up videos (all ages)	Storyboard That: Your teacher will give you a class code
GoAnimate: animated cartoons (13+) (14-day trial)	Piktochart: create infographics with free edu account (all ages)
Pixton: a comic strip maker (all ages) (basic account)	GoogleDocs Story Builder (all ages)
Storybird: a storybook creator (all ages)	Tackk: online poster creator (13+)
PhotoSnack: online photo slideshows (13+)(15 images)	FlipSnack: online page flipping books from PDFs (13+)
Buncee: comprehensive presentation creator (all ages)	Tiki-Toki: create one interactive timeline for each account (all ages)
Canva: Graphics creator (13+ or under 13 with supervision)	Voki: create a talking avatar (all ages)
emaze: multiple types of presentations, including 3D (all ages)	Little Bird Tales (ages 3-14)
Recite: create a graphic quote (all ages)	Carnegie Library Storymaker: interactive story creator (all ages)
WeVideo: works with Google Drive (all ages)(5 min limit/month)	Lucid Press: works with Google Drive (all ages)
Loupe Collage: works with Google Drive (all ages)	Twisted Wave: audio editor, works with Google Drive (all ages)

*** Prezi *** The terms of use state that students 13-18 may use the service with parental permission only. Students under 13 or any student without parental permission may not use Prezi.

These image and audio resources are good places to find copyright friendly media for your projects. Use the search tools on each page to find media that is free to use or share. Always credit your source.

* Any image from a website that ends in .gov is in the public domain and free to use.

	Image Sources		Audio Resources
	Photos for Class (citation automatically included)		Soundzabound (best resource, hands down)
	morgueFile (excellent images, all free for use)		ccMixter (audio for everything)
	Unsplash (high quality images)		Jamendo (350,000 tracks)
	Wikimedia Commons		Incomptech has a great search tool
	Metropolitan Museum of Art public domain images		Musopen: classical music to download
	Photo Pin (images for bloggers and creatives)		Internet Archive (200,000+ files) (video too)
	Pixabay (excellent quality images)		Free Music Archive (search by genre)
	FreeFoto (places and nature)		freeSFX (free sound effects)
	pics4learning (28,000 images)		Sound Gator (free sound effects)
	Bing Image Search, free to use and share		Audionautix (large variety, all free to download)
	Using Google Image Search? This is important.
	New York Public Library public domain images
	Creative Commons image search, citation included

Students

Digital Media Resources

Important Copyright Information: Your credit information should be in the opening credits and include the following notice:

There are many online tools for creating media and digital storytelling.

Image Sources

Audio Resources