How to find free illustrations for your multimedia projects

How to find free illustrations for your multimedia projects

Source: 404 Illustrations Since my artistic skills are lacking, I love it when I stumble upon free graphics that I can use. Although 404 Illustrations‘ goal is to provide graphics for 404 pages (those pages that come up when you try access a page that doesn’t exist) a lot of the graphics are generic enough that…

Ambiguity leads to chaos

Ambiguity leads to chaos

This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. When I was young, I thought checklists and procedures were the providence of the old. Now, after a few years in the classroom and in education, I’ve found that keeping everything that needs…

More free art for reuse

More free art for reuse

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has put over 700,000 digitised copies of its huge art collection online, and is making them available to reuse as public domain Source: Over 700,000 paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free You need to create an account to download the high resolution jpgs, but without an account you can still right-click – save image…

How to convert different file types with Zamzar

How to convert different file types with Zamzar

Source: Zamzar – video converter, audio converter, image converter, eBook converter I’ve talked about using CloudConvert to convert files to different formats, and Zamzar is another service that will convert a file from one format to another. Using Zamzar is straightfoward. Add the file you want to convert (50MB size limit for free account), select…