Education 2.0 & 3.0

In today's post we are sharing with you three important websites where you can access tons of pre-made illustrations and icons to use in your media projects. These are illustrative materials you can use to make the content of your presentations, videos, infographics, and timelines more engaging. While most of these materials are offered under some sort of CC license, we recommend that you always check to make sure you are allowed to re-use them in your own educational projects.

Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create.

If your students want to find free images for whatever awesome projects they’re working on, there are plenty of choices. That said, we’ve taken at least some of the guesswork out of that search with this post. Today we’re sharing 15 of the open source image resources that caught our eye recently.

Creating learning materials is not always easy, especially if we think about copyright. So here are 7 free photo sources teachers can use with confidence.

"Over 900,000 high quality photos, illustrations, and vector graphics. Free for commercial use. No attribution required."

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"Finding the perfect image or video clip for a website, poster, or presentation can be a challenge. Pixabay is a helpful repository of images and videos available for use under the Creative Commons CC0 license. On this website, users can browse for images by a number of categories, including Education, Health/Medical, Computers/Communications, and Emotion. In addition to photos, this collection also includes Illustrations, Vector Graphics, and Videos. Pixabay is also available as an Android or iOS application."

Free great picture - Your source for original desktop wallpapers, your source for design, high-definition picture, very rich categories, and it's 100% free.

While the Nationalmuseum building is under renovation, only a small part of the collections is accessible to the public. To provide more opportunity for people to enjoy its artworks, the museum embarked last year on a joint project with Wikimedia Sweden. As a result, high-resolution images of some 3,000 paintings from the collections are now available for download on Wikimedia Commons as public domain. This means they are part of our shared cultural heritage and can be freely used for any purpose. The images are also now zoomable, but not currently downloadable, in Nationalmuseum’s online database.

Magdeleine.co is a blog that features the best free high-quality stock photographies for your inspiration. Ready to browse them?

Heads up: Creative Commons has officially launched CC Search, a search engine that indexes over 300 million images from 19 image collections, "including cultural works from museums (the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art), graphic designs and art works (Behance, DeviantArt), photos from Flickr, and an initial set of CC0 3D designs from Thingiverse." All of the indexed images are in the public domain and released under Creative Commons licenses--meaning the images are generally free to use in a non-commercial setting.

Head here to start searching.

When following the links/categories contained in this search facility, the media available to you has been asserted by third parties to be either in the public domain, licensed under Creative Commons or GNL licence. When copying or making further use of any copyright protected media, you are responsible for ensuring that you do so according to the licence terms attached to the particular work/image. Please ensure that you understand and adhere to all terms and conditions of the licence for any media that you use. Where any doubt exists, contact the copyright holder for clarification.

A free tool that helps bloggers and designers find beautiful photos with Creative Commons licensing. Download the photos and get attribution links already formatted for you!

A list of handy resources for making your blog or Twitter feed look great, at absolutely no cost.

Picography by Hidden Depth provides stunning photography for use however you like.