Mixtures of free stuff and Collections of free photos, sounds, music, gifs, clipart, fonts, icons, satellite images, cartoons, graphics, animations, etc.

• A huge resource for free fonts, tutorials, web designs etc. See scroll bar at the right hand side of the page for all the links http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/
• 26 places to find free stuff for your blogs, wikis and podcasts http://mashable.com/2009/08/04/free-blog-media/
• http://creativecommons.org.au/
• http://www.heritageexplorer.org.uk/web/he/default.aspx
• http://www.freebyte.com/clipart_images_photos_icons/
• Free stuff for websites: http://www.webweaver.nu/
• http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/ and http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/3152550
• ccmixter.com
• Creative Commons Australia
• http://creativecommons.org/
• Creative Commons homepage
• EngageMedia
• 59 datasets from more than 15 different government bodies have been released on data.australia.gov.au under CC licences (usually Attribution). All this material, which spans from the Federal electoral boundaries to Powerhouse Museum’s collection database to the locations of Canberra’s public toilets, is now free to be reused, reimagined and repurposed by anyone
• Mosman Municipal Council, the local government authority for the northern shores of Sydney Harbour, has brought together the ‘open and transparent’ government holy triad: open consultation, open content and open data! On 7 April 2009 they adopted a new Community Engagement Strategy with an intention to “inform”, “consult”, “involve” their residence.
• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies

http://people.uwec.edu/koroghcm/public_domain.htm

Where to watch free movies online

• http://www.openculture.com/2009/11/free_movies_online.html

Free Digital Images/Movies for Art and Design (Visual Arts)

• http://www.vads.ac.uk/ Free images and artwork for use in educational Visual Arts
• http://www.engagemedia.org/ EngageMedia is a video sharing site about social justice and environmental issues in the Asia Pacific
• Digital Fringe Presented by the crazy crew at Horse Bazaar in association with Melbourne Fringe and Film Victoria, Digital Fringe is a worldwide web-based digital art festival providing artists with the opportunity to showcase their work to a global audience. The chosen submissions will be screened through an extensive network of hundreds of public screens as well as played on the [http://digitalfringe.com.au Digital Fringe website].
• As part of Queensland’s Q150 celebrations, the State Library is running a project – Storylines: Q150 digital stories – which aims to create three collaborative digital stories based on the themes Big things, Floods and Pubs. And they’re looking for photographs to populate them.

Free Clipart

• Remember all those “under construction” animated gifs from Web 1.0? Well I found them. All of them. http://tinyurl.com/yhkoht4
• Clker provides royalty free & public domain vector clip art online. All entries are categorised and a search engine is provided  http://www.clker.com/
• Free images suitable for young children, royalty free.  Themes around food, drink, physical activities, homes, habitats, animals, farm, pets, frogs, birds, musical instruments, toys, road signs, household items, mini beasts, people who help us, classroom signs, transport, numbers, clothing, babies, and cooperating http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/earlyyears/resources/illustrations/index.asp
• 80 000 free black and white clipart images http://blackandwhiteclipart.magick7.com/
• http://www.phillipmartin.info/clipart/homepage.htm
• http://www.pppst.com/clipart.html
• http://www.myenglishimages.com/Home.html
• http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/
• http://www.billybear4kids.com/clipart/clipart.htm
• www.office.microsoft.com/en-au/clipart/default.aspx
• Education related clipart: http://www.freeclipartnow.com/education/
• Educational Clipart and links to other Educational Clipart sites: http://www.wisegorilla.com/ and http://www.wisegorilla.com/clipart.html
• Educational Clipart like chromosomes, Medieval, flags, planets, recycle symbols, hieroglyphs, etc. http://www.wisegorilla.com/artlinks.html
• Educational Clipart: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/index.html
• Use the clipart to create your own tesellations: http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/tess/
• http://www.free-clipart.us/
• Gif animations
• Animated gifs
• Image*After
• Open Clip Art
• http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/
• http://www.free-graphic-design.com/index.htm
• http://www.barrysclipart.com/
• Cartoon type clipart: http://www.clipartof.com/
• Flags, banners, arrows, pointers, gifs, signs, borders, office/computers, mail: http://www.freebyte.com/gallery/
• http://www.freeclipartnow.com/
• http://www.free-clipart-pictures.net/
• http://www.stealthisgif.com/
• http://www.fg-a.com/clipart_tools.shtml
• http://myspace.free-clipart-pictures.net/myspace_glitter_graphics.htm
• http://www.clip-art.com/
• Historical Clothing, Fashion Gallery Contains 1000s of Free illustrations, images of historic clothing http://historicclothing.magick7.com/
• Vintage clothing images, designer clothing, and retro accessories, vintage inspired clothing and more http://bit.ly/MVYHC http://www.magick7.com/ebooks/fashion/japanese-fashion/japanese-fashion-01.htm

Animated Gifs

• http://www.animated-gifs.eu/
• http://www.gifanimations.com/
• Remember all those “under construction” animated gifs from Web 1.0? Well I found them. All of them. http://tinyurl.com/yhkoht4

Free Photos

• Five things you should know about photo copyright http://www.popphoto.com/Features/5-Things-You-Should-Know-About-Photo-Copyrights
• Free Foto http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
• Beautiful free photos http://www.beautifulfreepictures.com/
• Five sites for free legal photos http://www.blogherald.com/2008/10/06/5-sources-for-free-and-legal-images/
• Five + free sites http://theteachershub.com/?p=153
• Free images suitable for young children, royalty free.  Themes around food, drink, physical activities, homes, habitats, animals, farm, pets, frogs, birds, musical instruments, toys, road signs, household items, mini beasts, people who help us, classroom signs, transport, numbers, clothing, babies, and cooperating http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/earlyyears/resources/illustrations/index.asp
• http://www.flickr.com/.  Also see this great resource about PhotoSharing in the classroom, with links to Flickr resources and schools that use photo sharing http://www.teachinghacks.com/wiki/index.php?title=Photo_Sharing_in_Education.
• For those who haven’t heard, Flickr Commons, one of the most exciting free culture projects to emerge over the last year, is running its first international meetup this weekend. Flickr Commons has seen collecting institutions from the Smithsonian to Te Puna, the National Library of New Zealand release their public domain images online for free reuse by anyone in the world, under the ‘no known rights’ label.  The participating institutions in Australia include the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and the State Library of Queensland in Brisbane.
• Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.

  http://imageafter.com/

• 250+ free stock photo sites http://mediamilitia.com/250-free-stock-photography-sites/
• FlickRiver http://www.flickriver.com/groups/809956@N25/pool/interesting/
• Over 6000 photos free for educational use: http://www.edupic.net/
• http://www.photos8.com/
• Powerful images to give lessons punch: http://www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/2009/06/powerful-images-to-give-lessons-punch/
• Royalty free photos: http://www.fotosearch.com/
• http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/75,000 images free to use for non-profit educational purposes http://bit.ly/ckNPg
• Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection. Link http://pics4learning.com/
• Voicethread users can now access 700,000 historical images from The New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery http://nypl.voicethread.com/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_content=722419779&utm_campaign=August+Newsletter+_+ktjjir&utm_term=nypl.voicethread.com+#q
• Over the last year we have been putting together a gallery of copyright free images that we can use in our courses. By asking people in facebook to join the Teaching and Developing Online Fan group and share their images we have built a great collection. http://blog.scs.sk.ca/tado/2009/09/tado-picture-showcase-2.html
• http://compfight.com/
• http://www.bigfoto.com/
• http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/
• http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
• http://www.free-stockphotos.com/
• http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
• http://www.imageafter.com/index.php
• http://www.pierluigisurace.it/imagerie/index2.htm
• http://www.sxc.hu/
• http://www.morguefile.com/
• http://www.folkd.com/q/royalty-free
• Space Photos from NASA: http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/
• Photos of Earth from space: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/clickmap/
• The best online resources for images described accurately, all links here provide free photos.  More links provided in the comments on this page  http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/10/11/the-best-online-sources-for-images/
• Top 10 websites for photos presentation images http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/top-10-sites-images-presentation-50.htm
• Resize images http://sourceforge.net/projects/imageenlarger/

Free Music

• Christmas music for free to download and use http://feelslikechristmas.com/
• Great collection of music: http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/, you must give the creator (Kevin McLeod) recognition.
• Music and sound effects: http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/
• A lot of free royalty free looping background video clips on the partners in rhyme site herehttp://www.partnersinrhyme.com/free_video_loops3.shtml
• http://ccmixter.com/
• http://www.jamenda.com
• http://www.productiontrax.com/sound-effects.php
• http://www.soundclick.com/default.cfm
• http://www.opsound.org/
• http://www.dmusic.com/
• 40 Ways to Download FREE Music Legally – An Ultimate Guide http://bit.ly/3TIMKC via www.diigo.com/~theteachershub
• Melbournian pop-prince Talkshow Boy (MySpace, CC case studies wiki), purveyor of “complicated electronic new pop songs” and proprietor of the open music microlabel Pocketclock, releases his entire discography under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic licence. Brisbane local support Joel Saunders (MySpace, Archive.org) (performing with Crazy Hearse) also makes his music available for reuse; his album Think Not On me is on Archive.org under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.1 Australia licence.
• List of Creative Commons sites, plus info on Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/legalmusicforvideos, e.g.
• Free sound effects (I like the grocery store sounds under ‘ambience’) http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/index.html
• Fantastic sounds to download, e.g. for PowerPoints http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/powerpoint_sound_clips.htm
• Free sounds from the BBC site http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolradio/earlylearning/stimulussounds.shtml
• ccMixter
• Jamendo
• Magnatune
• Simuze
• BeatPick
• CASH Music
• SectionZ
• Opsound
• Jamglue
• Podsafe Audio
• Internet Archive’s Netlabels Collection
• Free music and sounds (Creative Commons) http://opsound.org/
• iLongPlay just released the first CC-licensed (BY-SA) iTunes LP for Tyrad’s “Listen”: http://ilongplay.com/
• Free music under creative commons (must recognise the artist) http://www.jamendo.com/en/creativecommons
• Another blog that has a bunch of free royalty free music and public domain music available for download herehttp://www.royaltyfreemusicclips.com/royalty-free/royalty-free-music/
• Free music loops: http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/free_music_loops.shtmlhttp://ccmixter.org/Dmusic
• Free music to download for your classroom, or to use in podcasts!  http://freekidsmusic.com/
• Fantastic list of free Royalty Free music: http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/tips/freemusic.htm
• Music from before 1922 which are now in the public domain: http://www.publicdomain4u.com/
• freesound (http://www.freesound.org/)
• opsound
• SoundClick
• Free Audio books like King James Bible, War of the Worlds, etc. http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/
• Sounds http://www.freesound.org/
• Sound Effects: http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml
• Sound Effects: http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html
• Sound Effects: http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/sound-effects.html
• Sound Effects: http://www.audionetworkplc.com/sound-effects

Cool  sounds and music online

• Darth Vader Soundboard http://www.abcarcade.com/darth-vader-soundboard.html

E-Texts

• Free e-texts for students and teachers http://www.readprint.com/
• Free leadership text Tribal Leadership http://www.zappos.com/tribal.zhtml
• Free printable booklets for Primary Literacy http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/printable_booklets.html
• http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Flexbooks: Free textbooks online http://about.ck12.org/
• Free online books http://www.readprint.com/ Free online book library for students, teachers and the classic enthusiast
• The journal of media and communication, Platform, is exactly that; a platform for bouncing out new ideas.
• Building an Australasian Commons (full book PDF) has been produced by Creative Commons Australia to highlight case studies from the Australasian region. (Visit http://creativecommons.org.au/casestudiesvol1 for more information, including remixable source files.)
• Download field-specific PDF booklets:
• CC & Sound
• CC & Democratic Change
• CC & Moving Images
• CC & Visual Arts
• CC, Cultural & Government Institutions
• CC & Written Word
• CC, Education & Research

Free Fonts

• Create a font from your own handwriting for free http://bit.ly/3vQkw0
• Loads of excellent free fonts for displays etc http://www.dafont.com/
• 40 free fonts http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/
• Free fonts for web designers and lovers of beautiful fonts http://bit.ly/BGPqE
• http://www.1001freefonts.com/
• http://www.searchfreefonts.com/
• http://www.fontriver.com/
• http://www.fontspace.com/
• http://www.free-fonts.com/
• http://www.acidfonts.com/
• http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0618.htm
• 30 Free Fonts Which Are Perfect For Professional Logo Designs http://j.mp/2QxTE0, and here is another one http://www.campivisivi.net/titillium/
• Free font from Toyota, uber cool! http://nl.toyota.be/cars/new_cars/iq/iq_font.aspx
• Free Font Blog http://digg.com/d32fZ
• Free fonts http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/
• Maths Font with dice, cards and money: View the contents here http://www.educaide.com/pdf/font99a.pdf and Download the font from here http://www.educaide.com/downloads/graphics.html
• Maths Fonts with sybols, brackets, etc. http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/tmmath/tmmain.htm
• Maths Font with symbols and powers of: View contents here: http://ctan.unsw.edu.au/fonts/mnsymbol/MnSymbol.pdf
• Party balloons, mosaic etc. fonts: http://www.fontsnthings.com/
• Beautiful Fonts for kids: http://www.fontspace.com/category/kids
• Kids fonts: http://simplythebest.net/fonts/kids_fonts.html
• Kids fonts: http://www.billybear4kids.com/fonts/fonts.htm
• Educational fonts like musical symbols, Maths symbols etc. http://websitetips.com/fonts/education/
• Free fontviewer My Fontbook http://www.myfontbook.com/
• How to download and install Fonts on your PC (to be used in Word, Publisher etc.): Instruction Document for Downloading and Installing Fonts on a PC , and here is a video explaining how to download and install custom fonts http://www.schooltube.com/video/40904/Downloding-and-Installing-Fonts-Tutorial
• If you want to install fonts, they will be downloaded in zip files.  You will have to extract the files (unzip the zipped folder) before you can install the font.  Download the free unzipping tool: Free zipping tool (freezip from nulifetv)
• Create your own fonts: http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/font-editors.shtml
• Create a font from your own handwriting: requires scanner. http://www.fontcapture.com/ Very cool!
• 25 free fonts for professional designs http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/25-high-quality-free-fonts-for-professional-designs/

Free PowerPoint Templates for Teacher/Educational use

• http://www.phillipmartin.info/templates/templates.htm
• Fantastic collection of PowerPoint Tutorials e.g. how to import and and add images, music, media etc.  Creating Flashcards using PPT, how to create a Template, talking book Template,  http://www.pppst.com/tutorials.html
• Free templates including game templates, holiday and special occasions templates, abstract templates, links to free sounds and free clipart http://www.pppst.com/templates.html
• How to download and use a PowerPoint template http://www.pppst.com/templates/usingtemplates.html (1. Save the jpeg you want in your files 2. Open Powerpoint. On the top bar, click FORMAT and then BACKGROUND 3. In the background box that opens, click on the arrow, and then on FILL EFFECTS. 4. In fill effects, click on PICTURE, then SELECT PICTURE and browse for the jpeg that you stored in your files. 5. Click OK. APPLY or APPLY TO ALL, and you have a fantastic background with beautiful color and a subtle hint of a design.)
• Presentation Helper Website for free templates, free sounds, example presentations, help, tips, trick etc. to make presentations more successful http://www.presentationhelper.co.uk/
• The best sites to share PowerPoints on the net http://www.masternewmedia.org/where-to-upload-and-share-powerpoint-presentations-guide/

E-Cards

• Someecards Launches Invites For Parties I Would Actually Want To Go To http://bit.ly/sUf6d

Free graphics and software if you want to create free games

• The Libre Games Wiki, and of course, general-purpose free software repositories like Sourceforge and Freshmeat have done a good job for game engines and related software.
• Also, sites like CC Mixter and especially Jamendo have proved useful for finding appropriately-licensed music.
• Open Game Art : it collects in a Drupal-based CMS 2D artwork and 3D computer models of game elements: characters, props, and even settings (there is a collection of “castle parts”, for instance).   Although, the collection is still small (the site started earlier this year), some of the contributed art is top-notch.

Free Mathematics Equation Makers

• http://www.fileguru.com/downloads/math_equation_editor
• http://www.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=ConResource.11476
• http://www.bestsoftware4download.com/software/k-equation-t-free-genius-maker-download-zxrutojd.html

Free Maths and Graph paper

• Storyboard Templates  http://www.printablepaper.net/category/storyboard
• Maths papers, Graph paper, Calligraphy paper, Printable games, Letter Paper, Score sheets, Letter Paper, Ledger Paper, Calendars, Knitting Graph etc. http://www.printablepaper.net/
• http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/
• http://www.printfreegraphpaper.com
• http://www.harmsy.freeuk.com/SciRep/graphs/paper.html
• http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/plain/
• Number lines, Cartesian planes, basic graph papers, dot paper:  http://mathbits.com/MathBits/StudentResources/GraphPaper/GraphPaper.htm
• http://www.mathsphere.co.uk/resources/MathSphereFreeGraphPaper.htm

Free templates for publishing, calendars, music paper and origami