EDL325 --Instructional technology

Course Specific Resources

Research Databases

Education Research Complete

Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,200 journals, and includes full text for nearly 500 books and monographs.

ERIC

ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records and provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.

Educational Administration Abstracts

Educational Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 190,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.

Samples article and book searches

Digital Citizenship

Social Media

Mobile Learning

Best Practices in Educational Technology

Digital Tools and Personalized Learning

Educational Technology and STEM

Emerging Technologies in Education

Copyright--Fair Use--Education

Sample eBooks

How to Create a Podcasts for Education

Increasing Student Engagement and Retention using Mobile Applications Smartphones, Skype and Texting Technologies

 

Audio Online Resources-- (copyright friendly)

RoyaltyFreeMusic.com

"The Royalty Free Music Clips, Royalty Free Music Loops, Royalty Free Beats, Royalty Free Bumpers and Stingers, and Royalty Free Sound Effects, posted on this page may be used, in Educational, student and personal, not-for-profit projects, free of charge."

jamendo

"Jamendo is the world's #1 platform for free and legal music downloads. Jamendo can be free and legal thanks to Creative Commons licenses. They grant the right to download and share music for free and legally. Artists choose to use these licenses, and to use Jamendo as a means to share and promote their music."

Free Music Archive

"The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet."

NoiseTrade

"NoiseTrade is a platform designed to help artists build their audiences by distributing free music in exchange for fan data (email & postal code)."

MUSOPEN

"Musopen is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on increasing access to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free."

BadgerLink Multimedia

Contains video and audio resources. Courtesy of BadgerLink, Wisconsin's Online Library.

Images Online Resources-- (copyright friendly)

Unsplash-- extraordinary resource with extraordinary photos. All photos have Creative Commons Zero license, which means they have no copyright restrictions.

Pikwizard

U.S. Government Photos and Images | USA.gov

NASA-images and Multimedia

Free Images.com

13 No Attribution Required Stock Image Sites

Pexels--Free stock photos

Creative Commons Search

List of Free Stock Images Resources

Google Images (once you've searched, press the 'search tools' tab, then press the 'usage rights' tab)

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Creative Commons Explained: