Media+-+Images+&+Videos

= Images, Clip Art & Videos: Copyright Law & living in a digital world =

There are two primary reasons that Google Images is being blocked in educational settings. First and foremost - the search engines are not designed specifically for educational use and inappropriate images can unexpectedly pop-up. The second reason has to do with Copyright Laws & Fair Use Policies - creative works are protected: TeachersFirst's Copyright & Fair Use Resources It's all about respect and giving credit where credit is due.

= Resources You Can Use: links to royalty-free digital media =


 * American Memory from the Library of Congress** - unique historical photographs & media from US history - topics range from the African American experience to the Japanese internment during WWII to Women's Suffrage to the Civil War and western expansion and more ... an extraordinary resource of photographs not often viewed!


 * Garst Wildlife Photographic Collection** - find animal pictures & information in this exhaustive library hosted by Colorado State University - Warren Garst was a full time photographer with Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.


 * morgueFile** - a "morgue file" is a newspaper business term to describe post production materials that are inactive. The website provides free images for use in all creative pursuits. It is the morgue file to the world wide web.


 * OpenClipArt** - high quality free clip art. Not the ordinary clip art files, these are vector files and the library increases daily.


 * Pics4Learning** - permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to Pics4Learning.


 * Pixabay** - a royalty free resource used by many schools


 * Photo Pin** - a search engine for copyright-free & royalty-free photos. It's super easy to use and allows you to choose the file size to download. Tip: a small or medium size file is all you need for most school-related projects.


 * WatchKnowLearn** - free educational video resources organized by categories. Take a look!


 * Wikimedia Commons** - a database of over 9,000,000 of media files (images, sound & video clips). It is a media file repository ... in other words, a public and freely-licensed educational media resource for everyone.

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 * JPEG or JPG** - Joint Photography Experts Group - a compressed image file format. Its small file size and universal compatibility is perfect for the Internet. Be warned though: the high-resolution quality can be lost when the image is compressed too much.=====

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 * MP4** - is a movie or video clip that uses MPEG-4 compression, a standard developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). It is used for sharing video files on the Internet.=====

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 * RM** - a media file used by RealPlayer. It is an audio and video playback streaming program, which means it links to a streaming media file that is played back as it is downloaded. It is often used for Internet radio and videos, as you would expect you need to have RealPlayer installed on your computer to read these files.=====

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 * TIF or TIFF** - Tagged Image Format File - a graphics file format created in the 1980's. It started as a single standard cross-platform image format, but there are now multiple variations of the TIFF format.=====