Free to Use and Reuse Sets @librarycongress

This page features items from the digital collections of the Library of Congress that are free to use and reuse. The Library believes that this content is either in the public domain, has no known copyright, or has been cleared by the copyright owner for public use. 

Each set of content is based on a theme and is first featured on the Library's home page. These sets are just a small sample of the Library's digital collections (https://www.loc.gov/collections/)

https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/

Piclits.com

Creative writing site created by Terry Frielander, that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords. Its object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture. 

Find it on:

https://piclits.com/ 

#WorldEnvironmentDay Free Nature Stock

Every year, World Environment Day is observed on June 5. This day is celebrated to encourage awareness and environmental protection. Environment Day coincides with the First United Nations Conference on Human Environment. It was held between 5th to 16th June 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden

On the occasion of this day, we present in this blog post a gallery of Royalty-free CCO nature stock photos and videos about nature created by Adrian Pelletier.

https://freenaturestock.com/?ref=MagazineDuWebdesign 

For more information and resources on this celebration:

UN Website

https://www.un.org/en/observances/environment-day 

Resources: https://www.un.org/en/observances/environment-day/resources

Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. More than a quarter of a million nature images in this library free to download and reuse.

Visit:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/albums 

Smithsonian Open Access

Founded in 1846 with funds from James Smithson, the Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex.

On the Smithsonian Open Access website you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images. 

A very useful educational resource for your projects.

https://www.si.edu/openaccess 

Blush (Illustrations to everyone)

Blush is a free tool that brings illustrations to everyone from artists around the world. 

You can customize every piece of an illustration to create your own compositions of art in digital experiences.

Blush is available as a plugin on Figma. It is also available as a Web App, so anyone can download illustrations and add them to their creations.

You can create an account to access a forever-free plan that allows you to use high-quality PNG images. There is also a paid plan for those who need SVG, more control over the layers, print resolution, and other advanced functionality. 

Find it on:

https://blush.design/

Online Picture Dictionary

Webapp for reviewing or studying basic English vocabulary items for children. It provides about 20 sets of vocabulary (also available in Spanish and Chinese).

You can select a set and scroll through the vocab items. You can also listen to their pronunciation.

This resource was made using images and audio from:

https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/ 

Find it on:

https://www.opdome.com/ 

Burst (Free stock photos)

Free stock photo platform that includes thousands of high-resolution royalty free images. It provides designers, developers, bloggers and entrepeneurs with access to beautiful free stock photography.

All their photos are free for commercial use with no attribution required.

Legal terms:

https://burst.shopify.com/legal/terms

Webpage:

https://burst.shopify.com/

Pixabay (@pixabay)

Since Pixabay was launched in November 2010 a growing community (over 100,000 peopel from allover the world) has turned this project into the greatest, high-quality source for free images and videos. 

With a total of 1.5 million free images, most of them photos (1.2 million) and several hundred thousands of illustrations, vector graphics and clip arts, Pixabay is the largest collection of free quality images.

You can search public domain images by using keywords or by browsing through the libraries. You can download them in different sizes.

Pixabay is one of the best choices to find free quality images for classroom projects avoiding copyright violations.

Webpage:

https://pixabay.com/

Blog: https://pixabay.com/es/blog/

Forum: https://pixabay.com/es/forum/

App on GooglePlay:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixabay.pixabayapp

App on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1178021455

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/pixabay

Photos for Class

Photos for Class is a place to access safe images that are available to be used in the classroom and for educational purposes. 

All photos shown are licensed by Creative Commons for public use. All of the downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms (name of the author, name of the photo, a link to the original photo and the name and type of licence along with a link to read it).

Find it on:

http://photosforclass.com/

The Image in English Language Teaching

Edited by Kieran Donaghy (the author behind the famous Film English website) and Daniel Xerri, this book features contributions by leading experts in the use of images in language education. 

The book is available by open access thanks to the support of the ELT Council. 

You can download a free copy from the Visual Arts Circle website:

https://visualmanifesto.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/the-image-in-english-language-teaching-2017.pdf

Gif Lingua

Interesting site based on animated GIF images as a good resource to provide visual contents for English language learning.

Images are arranged into categories: Pronunciation, News, Music, Videos and Levels 1-6. Have a look at a section called Books. You will find many extra supporting materials.

http://giflingua.com/

Gif Lingua on Twitter: https://twitter.com/giflingua

Gif Lingua on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/giflingua

Gif Lingua on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJyfx_kTGYbw-JMt-bwULOA

The Noun Project

The Noun Project is a website launched in 2010 that aggregates and catalogs symbols that are created and uploaded by graphic designers around the world. Based in Los Angeles, the project functions both as a resource for people in search of typographic symbols and a design history of the genre.

The Noun Project’s mission is to share the world’s visual language. They collect and organize all the symbols that form languages into one easy-to-use online library that can be accessed by anyone. All the symbols on this site are completely free to download, and can be used for many different purposes, including presentations, vocabulary flashcards, etc.

(Source Wikipedia)

Visit the project on: http://thenounproject.com/