Animations+&+Clipart+-FREE

GRAPHICS AND OTHER MEDIA - Free to Download Here, you will find free, copyright friendly, pre-made animations, clip art, fonts, photos, sound effects, music and more for your projects. Also, see DESIGN TOOLS for other tools to make your online work look more professional and creative. __**A collection of websites**__, including the popular **Creative Commons,** that contain FREE clipart, **animations**, **sounds**, even **avatars** can be found at this wiki. [|TheFreeSite.com] reviews the Web's top free graphics and clipart resources. [|Wikimedia Commons] is a **media file repository** making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content ( images, sound and video clips ) to everyone.
 * [|Infotopia.info] ** also has a good resource page on image finders including 15 Sites for Finding Images and Clip Art for Education.
 * Kidsnet** Software allows you to download free music, clipart, images, photos and even videos.

= Animations- = (for tools to make your own animations, see Animations on the PROJECT FORMAT IDEAS page)
 * Get FREE Online Animations to download at **Animation Library**.
 * [|Animation Station] - many categories, but only a few images in each category; unusual animated gifs not found elsewhere.
 * [|Bill's Animated GIF Collection] - over 20,000 animations, submitted by many different artists.



CLIPART AND ICONS :
One site to try first is the **[|Clip Art Searcher]** connects you to many search engines to help find clipart.
 * [|Find Icons] - an icon search engine helps you find free icons
 * [|Open Clip Art] - Great way to find free clip art.
 * [|School Clip Art] - Great site for free school clip art.
 * [|School Clip Art] - Great site for free school clip art.



Cool Fonts :
You can have so much free fun with fonts. So, move beyond the ho-hum, standard fonts offered by your word processing and presentation tools. For more options, or to create your own text, see the DESIGN TOOLS page.) A great site for **Fonts** is **1001 Fonts**. Dafont.com You can download your favorites of the many fonts offered or quickly generate an image of your text, adjusting for size. Fontspaceoffers its wide variety of font selections through a word cloud. Adjust the slider for size and choose font color.

MUSIC
For a list of sites that allow free music downloads, go to **What's the Best Site for Music Downloads**?

__** Creative Commons has FREE music and sounds! **__ **Music Archives** has free music downloads (but no sounds) **Net4TV** also has ** free Music and Sounds ** downloads. = = = SOUND EFFECTS = [|Free Sounds] http://www.freesound.org - royalty free sound effects [|SoundBible.com] offers free sound clips for download in either wav or mp3 format. = = = STOCK PHOTOS = (for Photo Editing tools see the "**Open Source Software**" page and look at ** Photo Editors; ** also see Image, Video and Drawing Tools on Web 2.0 Tools page or Making Movies/Videos on Project Format Ideas page )
 * Free All Music** and **Guvera** are two sites that allow advertising to pay for the **music you want to download**, rather than have YOU pay for it!! **Free All Music** and **Guevara** are allowing you to sign up- //**these are new programs**//. Once you sign up, they will send you an invitation __when one comes available__. Sign up now!!!!
 * FreePlay Music** is a great site to download all kinds of sounds as well as music for your own presentations. Free use for all students if it is for a specific school project--**not for an extracurricular.**
 * FindSounds**. This is a free site where you can search the web for **sound effects** and **musical instrument** examples.

Clipart Pictures **Flickr-**which has pictures that you may use in your projects. ** FlickrStorm **- allows you to find many photos online with **Creative Commons** licenses. For a **tutorial** on how to PROPERLY access and use clipart and photos online, be sure to check out this **wiki video**. You will learn how to correctly use **Flickr** to access copyright accessible photos. **** [|Free Photo Bank] - Easy way to find creative common images. **ImageBase** is a site that allows you to use pictures without asking for permission. You still need to give credit for the picture (a link will suffice). __**Military Pictures**__ **(Photos**)- free for your use, just be sure to give credit to the photographer. [|Ookaboo] - Creative commons (free) site for finding great images for class work. **Pics4Learning** a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos & images for classrooms, multimedia projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting. [|Veezzle] - Wonderful free stock photo search engine.

= VIDEO CLIPS - (See Videos Online- FREE page) =