Graphics and Multimedia Websites
Newly Alphabetized!
| Online Graphics | Search- able |
|---|---|
| Accuweather's AP Photo Archive - Photos aligned to MD science and social studies standards. Here you will find photos from the news on almost any topic. To search, click on Search Archive, then put your search term in the "what" box at the top of the screen and press enter. Subscription required. No password will be needed if you log in from an MCPS computer. | x |
| Digital Vertical File - This MCPS site has 300 pictures and over 1000 photos. Many of the photos are clear, background-free photos suitable for communication and visual strategies. There is a good search function. | x |
| Enchanted Learning's Picture Dictionary - This is really a picture dictionary with small graphics for each word. Many of them have a credit right under the picture that goes with it if you copy it. They do not post a policy for use of the graphics. Click on the letters at the top of the screen to find pictures. | |
| Internet Picture Dictionary - A good source of pictures to use with vocabulary lessons to support ELL, with clear simple graphics of many common words on white backgrounds. | x |
| Learning Magic Goodies Page - Four collections of photos are available and you can download them each as a set for free. They include birds, animals, farm stuff, and backgrounds. | |
| Pics4Learning - This site offers completely free photos for educational use and a great search function. You can even submit your own photos. Lesson plans are also included. This site is by the folks at Image Blender, which is one of the Tech Mod image editing tools. | x |
| Royalty-Free Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Instruction - The art here consists of line drawings specifically for use with ESOL kids. Therefore the collection has representations of many verbs, adjectives and pronouns. This is useful, but the library is very limited. Free for educational use. They only ask that you credit them. You can click "cancel" when if it asks you to install the Japanese language pack. | |
| School Clip Art - This site is free for teachers, but is limited and has no search function - if you try to use the search function on the page, you get routed to a site that costs $50 a year. | |
| United Streaming - MCPS has a subscription to this huge databank of graphics and video. All the media is aligned to content standards. MCPS staff can ask the media specialist for the login/password. You can attend an MCPS training (put "united streaming" in the course title field of the PDO) or find resources online to help you with the features of United Streaming. | x |
| UVic's Language Teaching Clipart Library - This clipart collection for teaching English includes 1500 images in categories like prepositions, body parts, etc. There is a good search engine. Click on the "keyword search" button at the top of the page. If you use the graphics on a website, they request credit, but the images are otherwise free to use. | x |
| Wikimedia Commons - This site is a repository of graphics, sound and video uploaded by the users. The vast majority of files are either in the public domain or under a liberal copyright license which allows you to use them as long as you give credit back to the authors. | x |
[back to top]
Some of the websites listed require a paid subscription. These are noted with Subscription required. MCPS holds a subscription for all pay sites listed on this page except where noted. If you are an MCPS teacher, you can obtain login and password information from your school media specialist. In some cases, you will not need to log in at all if you are using an MCPS computer. See other websites to which MCPS holds a subscription.
This web page may contain links to one or more pages outside the MCPS Web. MCPS does not control the content or relevancy of these pages.
Updated August 24, 2007 | Maintained by by Linda Wilson
