Searching for Media

Can't find what you are looking for? Check out these search engines

that specialize in locating pictures and/or sounds.

Google Image Searching

http://images.google.com/

Ditto.com's Visual Search Engine

http://www.arribavista.com/

Search for images by keyword or by category.

Altavista Search

http://www.altavista.com/

Use the multimedia search section of this search engine to search for

images , audio, or video.

The Amazing Picture Machine

http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

A useful site for locating images on the web by the North Central

Regional Technology in Education Consortium.

http://www.everystockphoto.com/

Clip Art

Tired of the clip art that comes with PowerPoint? The web offers a wide

variety of clip art that you can use in your slide shows.

Microsoft Clip Gallery Live

http://dgl.microsoft.com/

Microsoft didn't include all of their clip art on the CD. You can copy the

image and paste it into your slide show or download the image file to

your computer.

http://www.pics4learning.com/

TeacherFiles.com

http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm

A directory of online clip art sites.

Barry's Clip Art Server

http://www.barrysclipart.com/

A large searchable collection of free clip art. You will also find links to

other clip art sites and information about graphics utility programs.

IconBAZAAR

http://www.iconbazaar.com/

Graphics and icons sorted by category.

Freebie and the Bean

http://www.bitbetter.com/freebie.htm

Some free "screen bean" images to add to those already in the

PowerPoint clip art.

Web Clip Art

http://webclipart.about.com/

The About.com guide to web clip art has extensive links to sites where

you can find clip art on almost any subject.

MediaBuilder

http://www.mediabuilder.com/

Free graphics, art, animations and more.

Gary McFarlane/Douglas ESD Page 5 Revised 11/2000

John's Backgrounds

http://www.cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/backgrnds/backa.html

Check out this site if you are looking for backgrounds.

http://www.clipartconnection.com
http://www.awesomeclipartforkids.com
http://www.clipart.co.uk/
http://www.clipart.com
http://www.webarrow.net/graphics/
 

Sound

Just as with clip art, you don't have to settle for what was included in

the package. Check out these sites for more sounds.

PowerPoint Sound Archive

http://www.findsounds.com/

http://midifarm.com/
http://www.midiworld.com/midifile.htm
http://www.wavcentral.com/

http://www.soundcentral.com/
http://www.soundservice.com/
http://www.freeaudioclips.com
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/eno/677/musik.html
http://www.frogstar.com/ 

Animation/Video

http://www.archive.org/

http://www.open-video.org/index.php

http://www.animation-central.com/

Rotating tripod head www.kaidan.com

Imove Spherical Photo http://www.kaidan.com/products/sms1.html

Victor Navone’s web site

http://www.navone.org/HTML/Index.htm

Creator of Alien Song

Keith Lango

http://www.keithlango.com/

www.open-video.org/