Edit StoryMedia

Multiple Media Types

• Ourmedia http://ourmedia.org/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Public Domain Review http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/ - cogdog Jul 18, 2014
• Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Get Media http://www.spinxpress.com/getmedia - cogdog Oct 23, 2010

Images

• 4FreePhotos - A collection of public domain images in multiple categories. - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Art Images for College Teaching - a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• BioMed Image Archive - medical, dental, and veterinary images for use in learning http://www.brisbio.ac.uk/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Besplatne slike Several thousand copyright friendly, public domain images organized in categories. All photos are free for any personal and/or commercial use, credit or back link is not required. - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Creativity 103 abstract images, patterns, textures http://creativity103.com/ - cogdog Jul 23, 2014
• Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon (CAPL) http://capl.washjeff.edu/ - cogdog Jan 3, 2012
• EduPic Graphical Resources for Educators http://www.edupic.net/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Everystockphoto - search form multiple sources http://www.everystockphoto.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• foter - free creative commons licensed images http://foter.com/ - cogdog Sep 9, 2013
• Free Digital Photos http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Free Images - 2500 free stock images http://www.freeimages.co.uk/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• FreeFoto - over 100,000 images free for online use http://www.freefoto.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• FreePhoroBank - creative commons licensed photos searchable and organized into categories http://www.freephotobank.org/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• FreeStockPhotos http://freestockphotos.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Getty Get Art- thousands of public domain art images made available from for reuse http://www.getty.edu/art/ - cogdog Aug 12, 2013
• Great Images In NASA http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Gratisography Creative Commons licensed high resolution photod http://www.gratisography.com/ - cogdog Jul 23, 2014
• Image*After - almost 20,000 pictures and textures http://www.imageafter.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• ImageBase free photos http://imagebase.net/
• Internet Pathology Lab for Education - medical images & diagrams http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• morgueFiles - photos "freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects" http://www.morguefile.com - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Open Photo Project - cc licensed photos http://openphoto.net/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• PDphoto public domain photos http://pdphoto.org/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Picjumbo http://picjumbo.com/ - cogdog Jul 23, 2014
• Pixel Perfect Digital 5000+ user contributed images http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/free_stock_photos/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• NOAA Photo Library - weather images http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Pictures from Old Books http://fromoldbooks.org/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• PicFinder - search multiple sources for royalty free photos http://www.picfindr.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Pixabay - search for public domain / open licensed high quality photos and images http://pixabay.com/ - cogdog Aug 6, 2013
• Pics4Learning educational images http://www.pics4learning.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Public Domain Images- Several thousand copyright friendly images nicely organized in categories, free for any personal and/or commercial use, credit or back link is not required. http://www.public-domain-image.com - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Public Health Image Library (PHIL) http://phil.cdc.gov/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Sketchory http://sketchory.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• stock.xching - over 250,000 free stock photos http://www.sxc.hu/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Totally Free Images - public domain, no copyright, no attribution required http://totallyfreeimages.com/
• Unsplash high resolution photos, 10 new ones added every 10 days http://unsplash.com/ - cogdog Jul 23, 2014
• US Government Photos and Images http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Wellcome Images http://wellcomeimages.org/ - cogdog Aug 13, 2014
• Woophy - find images via map http://www.woophy.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• World Images - 50,000+ images free for education, non-profit use http://worldart.sjsu.edu/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• YotoPhoto - searches public domain and cc licensed photo collections http://yotophoto.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Youraustralia - cc licensed landscape images http://www.youraustralia.eu/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010

Audio

• ArtistServer free downloads of independent band music http://www.artistserver.com/music.cfm - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• ccMixter - remixes of cc licensed music http://www.ccmixter.org/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Free Music Archive - library of high quality copyright cleared music curated by WFMU http://freemusicarchive.org/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Free Music Project - free music of all genres http://freemusic.freeculture.org/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Funky Remixes "music found on this website is funky and free... a sweet collection of upbeat hip-hop, rap/rock, electronic and funky styled remixes." http://funkyremixes.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/audio - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Jamendo more than 10,000 albums of free, cc licensed music http://www.jamendo.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Macauley Library - Cornell University's archive of natural sounds (video too) http://macaulaylibrary.org/ - cogdog Jan 23, 2013
• Musopen - copyright free music (and sheet music) http://www.musopen.org/ - cogdog Nov 17, 2010
• Podsafe Audio "a location where musicians can upload music under the Creative Commons license for use in Podcasts, Mashups, Shoutcasts, Webcasts and every other kind of 'casting' that exists on the 'net." http://www.podsafeaudio.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Opsound - cc licensed music http://www.opsound.org/opsound.html - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• pdsounds environmental sound archive http://www.pdsounds.org/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Public Domain Music http://www.pdinfo.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Purple Planet http://www.purple-planet.com/ (mentioned by @brendasherry)
• SoundTransit - creative commons licensed field recordings http://soundtransit.nl/search/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010

Video

• Entertainment Magazine's Free Movies http://emol.org/movies/freemovielist.html - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Free Public Domain Movies http://imovies.blogspot.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/movies - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• National Archives http://video.google.com/nara.html - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Open Video Project http://open-video.org/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Open Source Cinema http://www.opensourcecinema.org/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Public Domain Comedy Videos http://www.pdcomedy.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• revver http://revver.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• vimeo creative commons tagged videos http://www.vimeo.com/tag:creativecommons - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• WGBH Sandbox http://streams.wgbh.org/sandbox/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• WikiMedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video - cogdog Oct 23, 2010

Make Your Own Media

The other viable option is to generate your own media via methods like scanning photos and objects, using your own digital cameras, video records, and mobile phone cameras. One of the best audio tools you can use to record and edit on your computer is a free open source tool-- Audacity. In addition, these web-based tools may be useful as media editors or converters.

• AudioExpert is a free and simple online audio editor, file converter and sound recorder. http://www.audioexpert.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Big Huge Labs offers a wide array of tools to create different image effects from flickr photos http://bighugelabs.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Cameroid can be used to create silly and fun self portraits with your computer's webcam http://www.cameroid.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Convert.files is used to convert files you upload to other formats http://www.convertfiles.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Silly Webcam lists huge number of sites you can use to create images and effects via your webcam http://www.sillywebcam.com/ - cogdog Oct 23, 2010
• Zamzar helps you convert files form one format to another http://www.zamzar.com