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All the Free Stock

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Overview:: Sourcing material for creative projects that is free and open for use can be difficult. All the Free Stock has created a collection of photos, audio, video clips, templates, icons and fonts sourced from sites around the web that allow their media to be used freely.
Type of Material:: Collection
Recommended Uses:: This resource could be used in a variety of assignments, particularly projects where students are required to create media and need access to resources. It could be useful for art projects, homework assignments, faculty presentations, podcasts, newsletters, and more.
Technical Requirements:: Browser with an internet connection
Identify Major Learning Goals:: The intent of this site is to provide a collection of free stock images, photos, web templates, icons, sound effects, and fonts from sites that provide their material to be used freely.
Target Student Population:: The vast range of materials available for use provides an immediate "go to" source for anyone needing stock materials, in particular multimedia instructors, art and design instructors, webmasters, and students who are creating presentations, websites, and more.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: No prerequisite knowledge is required, but having a project in mind before sourcing media would be helpful.

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Strengths:: This site is a collection of free digital materials from several different websites for use in a variety of setting by a variety of users. The users are the ones who will decide how these items will be used in a learning setting. The site could be used effectively within any discipline or field.
Concerns:: None.

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Strengths:: There are no preset learning objectives associated with this material - educators set their own desired outcomes and students can use this tool in order to meet this outcome. The variety of the materials that are amassed are diverse enough to help educators achieve a wide array of teaching goals. The objective of this site is implied by what it provides. The strength is in the vastness of the collection all in one spot.
Concerns:: None.

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Strengths:: The site features an incredibly rich collection of media, sourced from current and well-kept databases from across the web. It is easy to peek into the various sites without having to leave the interface. There is access to Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and email from the main site.
Concerns:: The site uses iframes, which helps to keep users from bouncing back and forth from site to site, but also causes some navigation issues as some sites are loaded into the space. Not all of the sub sites are really free. Some offer pay what you can while others offer one free photo every day. Because the sub-sites are really websites that have een curated, moving between them is not efficient and smooth due to the differences for each specific site.

Other Issues and Comments:: While this may not be technically possible, it would be a great feature to be able to search all of the sites from the main site as opposed to having to load in the iframe of each individual site and then search the site from within the iframe. It would be helpful if the site clearly explained that the materials are a collection of other websites. That would, in turn, explain why you cannot conduct a search from the home page of "All the Free Stock."
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