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Established in 2006, Curriculumbits.com offer free online access to a growing range of interactive multimedia elearning resources. The online resource library contains games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects. Resources have been produced according to key stage 3 and 4 of the UK National Curriculum for students aged 11 to 16. All resources are produced by elearning multimedia specialists in collaboration with every day teaching staff as a direct solution to their classroom requirements.

26/8/07 - "Scran is a learning resource base and toolset with 336,500 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media." Subscription site.

As it says really... An online, multimedia scrapbook like a very easy-to-use wikispace. Perfect for ICT clubs and advanced KS2 pupils.

18/4/08 - Amateurs and enthusiasts have contributed to this huge database of music in a wide range of genres. Useful for ICT - podcasting or videos / multimedia. Most of this is free to use but you do need to check.

Visual Literacy Disk 1

13/11/07 - Kent GfL Video links. Reviewed, decent sites.

4/12/07 - Dozens of Christmas weblinks - searchable for activities, games, colouring, non-fiction, planning, resources, clipart, music, video and fun stuff.

18/2/08 - An easy way of discovering new media files, word documents or PDF files. Not so much a search engine as a tip...

3/11/08 - This works pretty well but, as advised on the site, should not be used for illegal downloading.

20/8/08 - from the Lifehacker site, click YouTube Hacks to access. Simply put, this guide assists you in: 1. Downloading YouTube videos 2. Watching YouTube videos on a TV screen 3. Creating podcasts using YouTube RSS update feeds 4. Recording audio from videos 5. [best of all] pasting videos together to create your own compilation Great stuff!

29/6/08 - Music and sound effects for World War 2, China, Greece, Africa, Judaism, Sea Shanties, Tudors, Churches, Seaside, India, Victorians, Mexico, Space, Egypt, London, plus more to be added shortly.

26/8/07 - Multimedia clips that can be edited online - this great fun!

Seems as if it's all acoustic but it's great quality mood music for classroom learning / background music and to enhance multimedia presentations. Also useful for providing examples of different genres.

24/8/08 - About ten suggestions for sites with Podcast music. The page was last updated in 2005, so some links may not work.

Loads of free WAV files for your multimedia bits and pieces.

23/9/07 - Teachers' Domain is an online educational service with two related components - Collections and Courses - that help teachers enhance their students' learning experiences and advance their own teaching skills.

30/9/08 - Ignore the adverts offering paid-for service; there is enough free content on this site to keep you interested. Well worth a look, particularly for animated GIFs.

Loads of different locations across the planet.

18/4/08 - Decent list of sites with copyright-friendly or free images.

26/8/07 - Literally thousands of royalty-free photos and illustrations (basically, clipart).