Looking for free stock photos to enhance your classroom lectures, presentations, and student projects? Stockvault is an online collection of user submitted material available for use in non-commercial purposes. Featured images range from photos and pencil sketches to computer generated graphics such as textures and illustrations. With over 50,000 categorized and tagged images in their database, you should be able to find that image that illustrates your idea quickly, easily, and for free.
Visual content is proving to be a valuable resource as a more engaging tool than plain text. Coupled with video, a multimedia presentation with interesting visuals brings out more conversations and responses from the audience, and the content is better retained. The value of visual content for educational purposes is definitely positive! Because it is so simple to gather free images from Stockvault, with little effort, there can be great engagement. The website also provides tutorials on content creation and photo editing. You may find these tips useful when preparing your material. This section can be found as a link in their top menu.
- Visit their website through the following link: http://www.stockvault.net/
- Use the Search function with keywords such as “animals”, “flags”, etc. Alternatively, you can browse through the categories listed on the left-hand side of the front page.
- Images that require payment will be loaded first, followed by the free images.
- Choose an image under “Free Stock Photos” and click on it.
- A new page with the image will open up with a download button on the left.
