Featured Collection: The British Museum

The British Museum has over 500,000 of their collection images available through their online database. The images are available in download sizes of 1024 pixels wide, or greater, and are approved for non-commercial education use.

In addition, the British Museum offers high-resolution images (2500 pixels wide) free of charge, that can be used for non-commercial publications with a print-run of less than 4,000. You may order up to 100 of these high-resolution images per month. See their website for more information on obtaining their high-res images.

Download online videos

If you would like to show an online video in a lecture but are afraid you won't have reliable Internet access, it might be a good idea to download that video to your hard drive first. You can quickly and easily download videos from sites such as YouTube or Google Videos by using a free service at http://en.savefrom.net/.

http://en.savefrom.net/ will give you the option to download the streaming video in a variety of formats such as  MOV, MP4 or WMV. Just paste the video's URL into the website's search box & then hit 'download' and select the file format you desire. You can then run the video directly from your hard drive or insert it into a PowerPoint presentation.