“Behold is a search engine that is designed to help you find the best Creative Commons licensed images for your blog, slideshow, or video project. Behold searches the catalog of more than one million Creative Commons licensed images on Flickr. What makes Behold different from just searching by using the license filter on Flickr itself is that Behold searches not just by image tag but also by the quality of the content of the images. When it works correctly if you used Behold to search for images of “buildings in New York City” you would not only be searching the tags people assigned to their images, but you would also be searching the actual content of the images.

Applications for Education
When students create multimedia projects in my classroom, I require them to use either Creative Commons or Public Domain images if they don’t create their own images. I do this to teach and reinforce the point that they cannot just grab and re-use images without regard for Copyright. Behold could help my students find quality images that meet my Creative Commons requirement.”

(via. FreeTech4Teachers)

by Sang Tang via The Unofficial Apple Weblog

In Apple’s iWork suite, the ‘Paste and Match Style’ or ‘Paste Style’ options, as implied in their names, allow you to paste the style from one element onto another; or to paste an element into a document and to match the style of the document that it’s getting pasted to. In many ways, they’re the iWork equivalent of ‘format painter’ found in Microsoft Office. And, in many ways, they’re much better.

For example, say I’m working on a presentation on my company’s frozen banana sales in Keynote. I’ve created my first slide, with a title of ‘Frozen Bananas Sold.’

But, I also have a Numbers document that I’m working on, and I want to take the ‘Frozen Bananas Sold’ title to have the same font and color as the ‘Bluth’s Frozen Bananas – Balance Sheet.’ To do this, I’ll need to click on the ‘Bluth’s Frozen Bananas – Balance Sheet’ element and select ‘Copy Style’ (or command-option-c) from the Format menu within Numbers. Then, I’ll need to move back to the Keynote document, click on the ‘Frozen Bananas Sold’ element, and select ‘Paste Style’ (command-option-v) from the Format menu. Now, the title of my Keynote presentation has the same font formatting as title from my Numbers document.

While the ‘Paste Style’ option allows you to apply the style elements from one element onto another, ‘Paste and Match Style,’ on the other hand, applies a document’s style onto the object that’s being pasted. For instance, in my Numbers document, I have a sales chart that I’d like to paste onto my Keynote document.

Unfortunately, the font is dark, which would clash with the colors of my Keynote presentation. With the ‘Paste and Match Style’ option, my chart will take on the style elements of my Keynote document.”

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW.com).)

Sound Bible is a resource for finding and downloading free sound clips, sound effects, and sound bites. All of the sounds on Sound Bible are either public domain or labeled with a Creative Commons license. You can find sounds for use in podcasts, videos, slideshows, or other multimedia creations.

Sound Bible is a resource that I discovered by following a link from another resource listed in Mashable’s article 26 Places to Find Free Multimedia for Your Blog.

Applications for Education
Sound Bible could be a good resource to have bookmarked for your students to use when they are creating multimedia presentations. I will be adding Sound Bible to my lists of sound resources in Connecting Social Studies and Art Through Video.

Here are some related resources that may be of interest to you:
PodSafe Audio – Sounds for Podcasts
Free Music Archive

(Via Free Technology for Teachers.)