Faculty Development: Audio and Image Resources

"Listen to relaxing music, ambient atmospheres and astonishing sound effects. Just click on an image to start chilling. " -(website) Has rain sounds, nature, human sounds, and more.

"Recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better." --(site)

Visitors just need to "Push.Speak.Share. When visitors "Push to croak" on the homepage, they can send out audio clips via any number of social media networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. However, you just have 30 seconds to record.

Free tool to quickly adjust the length of an audio recording. It can also be used to add fade-in and fade-out effects to your audio files. Online Audio Cutter can be used with files that you upload to it.

If there is a YouTube or Sound Cloud clip that you want to edit, it can work with those files too. Just paste the URL of the YouTube or Sound Cloud clip in order to edit it.

"Just click the button above to start recording. We will give you an mp3 you can save, and a link you can share with anyone."--(site)

Record yourself or upload original music to share wit others privately or publicly. Free version allows up to 2 hours record time. Nice feature: will get link and embed code. Ties in with social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, too.

If you want to download sounds, this application is the perfect tool. Visitors can use SoundDownloader to download music audio files from YouTube and other popular websites with little fuss. The program can be set up to download multiple files at the same time, and it is easy to use.

SUPER easy. Free. No registration.

There is no fixed limit on message length.

However, Vocaroo does not provide permanent storage; there are simply too many messages recorded for this to be possible. There is not a definite age at which messages are deleted, however it is likely messages will expire after a few months

enter how you're a feeling and a wall of songs with YouTube videos will appear

Search by Genre or by "Instrumental" in the upper right search box.

over 85,000 music scores and free MP3s...

"browse our music by composer, performer, instrument, form and time period"-(site)

Free sound recording downloads. There are twenty-three recording sound effect categories. Must register in order to download.

Download background music for your videos. For free.

Free. Stylizes small pieces of text to share via Twitter, Facebook, etc.

"Make a FREE logo in 8 minutes
• Professional logos in 3 clicks.
• No design experience needed.
• No Credit Card required. "--(site)

Upload a high quality graphic then divide it into letter-sized chunks for printing. Print out each section and put them together to make your own poster.

"Every item comes with a choice of image size and format as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects. No advertisement-filled pages with pop-up windows or inappropriate links here. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 50 educational clipart items in a single, non-commercial project without further permission.

66,902 pieces of free clipart and growing every week. "--(site)

"Easily remove the background from your photos to create masks, cutouts, or clipping paths, all done instantly online."-(site)

Just type in your text, select colors, shape, etc. Can download

For an example: http://dabuttonfactory.com/#t=MODULE%201&f=Calibri-Bold&ts=24&tc=ffffff&tshs=1&tshc=222222&it=png&c=5&bgt=unicolored&bgc=57c7e6&be=on&bs=1&bc=569&shs=1&shc=222&sho=se&hp=20&vp=11

"search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free"--(site)

Add and play audio to your images. For websites, too.

"An easy way to crop, resize, rotate, enhance, mix and manipulate photos, to create a wide variety of images."--(site)

Free image editor. Mac and Windows, iPad app, Android app. Don't even need to create an account.

Can crop, apply filters, add frames, insert text and clip art.

"SoftIcons.com allows to download icon sets free of charge (at least for personal use). The catalog contains 367,169 icons/images in 2,237 sets."-(site)

"MARKUP AND DISCUSS IMAGES ONLINE"=(site)

Hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical device and diagnostic companies, universities, medical clinics, elderly care, and government health care will now have a single point of access to the highest quality eLearning library of Medical Stock Photos at a reasonable price.

More than 25,000 images of works of art. Nearly all can be downloaded and re-used for free.

"The Open Clipart Library (OCAL) is the largest collaborative community that creates, shares and remixes clipart. All clipart is released to the public domain and may be used in any project for free with no restrictions. "-(site)

gives you the embed code

add speech bubbles and some effects to your pictures. no registration required. then save your image.

"Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting." -(site)

"The set of images appearing BELOW the Shutterstock images on Pixabay are free to download. When you find a Pixabay image you can download it in the size that suits your needs."--(Richard Byrne from http://www.freetech4teachers.com/)

Very easy to use. Tons of editing options. And can save the image at the end.

exhibit from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Collection of 2,588 postcards, as well as sections on Picturing Nursing as a Career, The Art of Nursing, and others.

Also contains Education resources that include Lesson Plans and Online Activities. This last section features a great collection of Florence Nightingale Letters from 1845-1878

Annotate screenshots and images to share with others. Can also sketch shapes, scale and rotate any image, adjust colors and outlines, etc. Must run Flash Player and Java Runtime.

"Taggstar is a free widget for your web site that turns images into an even more exciting, engaging and social medium.

There's no software to download and you don't have to be Einstein to get it to work. Just sign up, then copy and paste some JavaScript into the html of your web site. It's kind of like adding a hit tracking widget, or a Google Analytics tracking tag into your site.

Simple.

Once installed, tagging is easy. Just point and click to place hotspots on pictures, adding rich content such as video, music and shopping links. It's sort of a digital version of placing pins on a board. Your site's images are the board and Taggstar provides the pins.

But wait, there's more than just tagging.

People like to share the images they discover, which is why when you install Taggstar, every image on your site gets its very own "share" tool bar. This means visitors to your site can share your wonderful images with the rest of the world."--(site)

Make images come alive with music, audio, videos and any web content. Can include audioboo audio recordings as well. Can even embed finished product.

could be used by art students to identify and tag important elements of a painting, drawing, etc. It could also be used in history courses to have students identify important places on map, etc.

"Remix is an optional service that allows you let other people use the images that you upload. You retain ownership of the original image and your original image isn't changed, but others can use your uploaded image to create their own interactive images." (Richard Byrne, http://www.freetech4teachers.com/) Great for a teacher to upload an image and then students remix it.

http://edudemic.com/2013/01/10-innovative-ways-to-use-thinglink-in-the-classroom/

Video tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29kDWdJsr00&feature=player_embedded

reduce image size
crop photos
sharpen
resize - change width and height
rotate
adjust contrast, brightness, saturation
convert photo to black and white
add a border
no registration required
free!