Need a Picture?
Author: Ms.Librarian - Date: April 7th, 2008
So you have a presentation, project, paper or assignment of some kind that requires a picture, music or sounds?
Most students (and adults) are used to going to Google images and copying down a pictures. There really is no need to visit Google images if you know where to go. Below are some links to very good, smart sources that give you access to copyright free music, images and multimedia for use in your projects.
Creative Commons Licenses*
- Creative Commons Search (use this site to search various places for Creative Commons licenses)
- Flickr’s Creative Commons Page. (direct link)
In case you are wondering about Flickr. Click here for a tour on how it works.
Dr. Joyce Valenza’s very, very cool Wiki pages on this topic
What is Creative Commons??
A non-profit organisation founded on the notion that some authors may not want to exercise all of the intellectual property rights the law affords them. Creative Commons has developed a set of free public licences to enable authors to share their work with others.
SOURCE: www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm
Here is a link to a cartoon explanation of Creative Commons (CC): http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Spectrumofrights_Comic1
Create your own picture (image generators)
So, maybe you want to create your own picture? You want to include your own topics, words or pictures into your image? Try any of these image generators.
- Comic Strip Generator
- Image Chef (create your own customizable logos and pictures)
- Big Huge Labs Flickr Toys (this site contains quite a few applications to customize pictures from Flickr or your own)
- The Generator Blog (lots of image generating resources found here)
- ToonDoo (cartoon strip generator)
- Make Belief Comix (make your own comics)
- Picnik , Tabblo, Lighting and Pixer.us are all online image editing tools.
- Motivational Poster Maker
- Queeky (draw your own pictues and share them with others)
- AddLetters.com (create your own customizable signs–lots to choose from here)
- Glass Giant’s Make picture feature (customize and animate your pictures) or write your own messages on their blackboard.
- Fodey.com (create your own newspaper headline etc.)
- Says-it.com (personalize different signs and images)
- ImageGenerator.org (many resources for adding graphics)
- Bubbl.us (Mind Map creator)
- Face in hole (put your face in various pictures)
- ReadWriteThink Webbing tool
- Mindomo (create mind maps that allow you to import outside images)
- Spell With Flickr (Spell words using pictures for Flickr)
- Swivel (create graphs with data)
- Spelling with Zombies (use this for Halloween)
- Graffitti Creator (your teachers might not like this one)
- VoiceThread (analyze and comment on posted images or slideshows with your own voice or text)
- Icon Pot (need an icon? start here!)
- LogoCreator (create your own logos)
- Shape Collage (make a collage with your pictures)
- GoAnimate (add your pictures and animate them)
- Dumpr (upload your images and apply cool effects)
- Wordle (generate word clouds)
- TypoGenerator (Generate your own Logos and fonts)
- Text2Picture ( contains a list of Image generators)
- MagMyPic (create fake magazine covers with your pictures)
- Block Poster (create posters with your pictures)
Or, create your own sign generator: http://www.signgeneratormaker.com/
