Presentations ETC, Maps ETC, Clipart ETC, and Cooliris
PRESENTATIONS ETC
On its Presentations ETC website, the Educational Technology Clearinghouse makes available "free backgrounds, templates, letters, frames, and buttons for school presentations, websites, class newsletters, digital scrapbooking, and student portfolios. Thousands of presentation elements and millions of combinations allow you to customize your school projects, electronic scrapbook, or eportfolio. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 50 items in a single, non-commercial project without further permission."
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| graphic of samples from the Presentations ETC website |
The site boasts over 20,000 backgrounds, over 21,000 buttons and icons, over 7,700 letters in a variety of styles, as well as PowerPoint templates and Keynote themes.
MAPS ETC
Check out Maps ETC to find over 5,000 historic maps representing many different time periods. The same license which was mentioned above (with link) applies to the use of the map images.
CLIPART ETC
The ETC also presents over 60,000 pieces of free clipart on its Clipart ETC site. "Every item comes with a choice of image size and format as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects. No advertisement-filled pages with pop-up windows or inappropriate links here." The same license as described above (with link) applies here.
If you have the free Cooliris plugin installed, you can view ETC clipart on a 3D wall without having to click to go from screen to screen.
COOLIRIS
Using Cooliris you can view 3D TV shows and movies as well as content on a number of websites in 3D on your computer or mobile device. You can even view the images stored on your own hard drive on a 3D wall as well. See a demo here. Cooliris supports Firefox (on Windows, Mac, Linux), Internet Explorer, Safari (Mac), and Google Chrome (Windows).
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