Here are copyright friendly websites you should go to find audio for your school projects.  Feel free to email me tools you know about and I will review them and add them to the page. Thanks!

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Best Bets - Use Installed Programs

Tool	Purpose	How to Use	Notes
Audacity (PC & Mac)	Free Sound Editing Program	Here are some links to help you learn to use Audacity: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df4f25rh_198c9tqf9kr http://www.wikieducator.org/Using_Audacity	Audacity can be downloaded at home from this site: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity can export MP3 files!
Garage Band (Apple)	Free Sound Editing, Music, Sound Effects, Podcasts, & Multi-track recording	Here are some links to learn to use GarageBand: Apple's Online Help Tutorials Lots of great resources to learn how to use the program Apple's Online Support Site - Use more for troubleshooting	This is a really fun and creative program - whatever you create from your recordings and the built in Apple Loops is copyrighted by You! If you import and use copyrighted music or sounds in your project, then you need to follow copyright law and fair use (10% of total work). Good news - its easy to edit an imported copyrighted song down to "fair use" amounts in GarageBand!

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Government Sites

NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/HDGalleryCollection_archive_1.html
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

http://www.fws.gov/digitalmedia

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

http://photogallery.nrcs.usda.gov/Index.asp

National Cancer Institute

http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/

NOAA

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/collections.html

U.S. Government Photos & Images

http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Graphics.shtml

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Others

If you really need to find music on the web that is safe to use in your digital projects, here are the best tools I have seen.

Website	Purpose	How to Use	Notes
http://www.freesound.org/	Source of Creative Commons sounds.	Use the search box on the top right hand side to find sounds for your projects. Be sure to site sound from this site properly! http://www.freesound.org/forum/profile.php?mode=register See PDF attached below for examples.	An account is now needed for this site. YOu can use the following: username: EHMIS password: colts Most are wav files or mp3 files.
http://ccmixter.org/find-music	Source of Creative Commons music.	Click the "Editor's Picks" or "Remixes" to browse music. You can also search using the "Search-Find Content" link on the top right of the page. Click on speaker icon to preview, or click on name of song to get more info about song. Then click the Download button.	No Account is needed. Most songs are mp3 files.
http://www.moviewavs.com/	Source of sound clips from movies and TV shows	Browse by topic or you can use the Search Site box at the top of the page. Click around until you find the mp3 file. These are ok to use in digital projects because they are small snipets of a larger work.	No account needed. Look for and use the mp3 or wav files.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com	This site has some great video of speeches - both real and from movies, as well as video from TV news programs of major news events in the past.	Be careful of pop ups on this site!	When you find a media file you want, try right clicking and selecting "Save Target As"
http://www.findsounds.com/	Another search site	Be careful - lots of the music and sound effects you find with this site may be copyrighted! You will also find