The Mabee-Simpson Library: English: Presentation Resources

Free Images

The following websites allow you to download images that can be used in presentations, or for anything really, free of charge. See individual sites for specific details.

Openverse
Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone.
Pexels
The vast majority of the images on Pexels are free. There are some where you may be asked for a tip, but this is not required. Also, some may be locked behind some kind of paywall, but there's so much on the site that you may be able to find a free alternative.
Giffy
Download free GIFs.

Free Audio

The following sites allow you to download free sound bytes.

Freesound
Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, and all sorts of bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.

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