English and Language Arts Education : Images, Video, Audio
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Library Resources for Finding Images
Find images to help your students understand new skills.
Find images in the UW-Madison's Digital Collections Center and other digital image collections at UW-Madison.
- University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsThe University of Wisconsin Digital Collections provides free and open access to digital resources, including images, slides, maps, prints, and posters, that support the teaching and resources needs of the UW Community.
- AP ImagesThis is a great resource that UW subscribes to, providing international news images from the past and present.
English Language Arts Videos
Instructional videos. Useful for lesson planning or learning new skills.
- Teacher Tube VideosEducational videos for classrooms broken down by subject and grade level.
- TED EducationA collection of curated educational videos, representing many collaborations between educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed website
- Education in VideoContent designed for teachers to link theories to real life practice.
Using Images Responsibly
Images aren't free! Learn how not to get busted for copyright infringement.
- Using Images: Copyright and ReproductionLibGuide created by MIT on Copyright & Fair Use.
Digital Collections
- The James Joyce Scholars Collection (UW Digital Collections)The James Joyce Scholars' Collection is compiled of rare and out-of-print texts of Joyce's work.
- The Literature Collection (UW Digital Collections)The Literature Collection consists of works in literature and the humanities, covering medieval to modern with a little bit of everything.
- Publishers' BindingsA digital collection of decorative book bindings and a glossary and guide to the elements of these objects.
- New York Public Library Digital CollectionsExtensive digitized items including images, text, audio, moving image, maps, menus and more.
Online Resources for Finding Images
Free, copyright-friendly image collections on the Web.
- Creative CommonsCreative Commons images are free of traditional copyright restrictions.
- New York Public Library Picture CollectionThe NYPL Picture Collection consists of over 12,000 subjects of images from the Mid-Manhattan branch.
- Digital Public Library of AmericanDPLA exhibits digital collections provided by institutions around the United States.
