myLibrary: Media: Finding information

Different Search Engines

Duck Duck Go
DuckDuckGo, has the belief that online privacy should be simple. The Chrome extension has one single purpose — protecting your privacy in Chrome. Together, these privacy essentials seamlessly help prevent your personal information from being exposed during everyday online activity.
Wayback Machine
Search the archives of the internet for past websites, archives of TV programmes (including news footage of September 11 2001) and other digital ephemera.
Wolfram Alpha
WolframAlpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.
Our mission is to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our work builds on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.

A survey can be a great way to collect your own data.

It can be used to identify an issue, to gather evidence, or to evaluate an action.

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to develop particular skills: Time Management, Reading skills, Writing skills and many others

Infographic: "Creative Commons - What does it mean?" (by Martin Missfeldt / Bildersuche.org). (CC-BY-SA).

Photos for class
Age Appropriate Images - All images are appropriate for the school setting.
Automatic Citation - Downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms
Creative Commons
Humaans
Humaaans offers a library of illustrative figures that you can use in a variety of multi-media projects. You can mix and match different illustrations of people and create your own remix.
Open Peeps
The library works like building blocks made of vector arms, legs, and emotions. You can mix these elements to create different Peeps.
Combine clothing and hairstyles to add flair.
Change emotion with different facial expressions.
Set the scene with different poses—including standing and sitting.
Unsplash
Photos available to be used freely. Architecture, current events, film, fashion, nature and street photos are some of the categories
The Noun Project
Icons and photos available, check for Creative Commons options

Here are a few curation tools:

Elink this tool is one of the simplest. You collect your links, write descriptions, and end up with a single unique web page that you can share with anyone.
Pinterest is probably the most popular curation tool out there. If your students are already using Pinterest, or you’re willing to get them started, you could have them create a Pinterest board as a curation assignment.
Symbaloo allows users to create “webmixes,” boards of icons that each lead to different URLs.
Diigo is a good choice for a more text-driven project, like a literature review or a general collection of resources at the beginning stages of a research project, where images aren’t necessarily required. Diigo offers lots of space to take notes about every item in a collection, but it doesn’t have user-friendly supports for images or other media.
from https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/curation/

Creative commons
Creative Commons licences provide a standardized way to give the public permission to share and use creative work.

CC search
Search for free content in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.

Purple Planet Music
Royalty free music : We simply ask that you credit us as follows: Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
Bensound royalty free music
Variety of music samples that can be used for projects, royalty free