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In a digital story the audio can make up to 80% of your experience. Music and audio is very important for the overall effect of your digital story.

==**Audio** ==

Listed here are links to websites which contain media to enhance your digital story. Music is an incredibly emotional enhancer of your digital story. If this is chosen well it can enhance the mood of your story. Consider not using rights managed music. (This is music from CD, radio and downloaded from commercial artists) Here are some websites that offer rights free music. The music on these websites is free to use. In most cases if you're using it for non-commercial use you can use the music for no charge. Always encourage students to use rights free music. Non commercial music can often give your digital story more impact. When you have time sit and listen to the free tracks, download them and keep them on your computer until your ready to use them. __ Freeplay Music __ The new __ Freeplay Live Music __ site. This has a really nice feel about it. __ CC Mixter __ __ Creative Commons __ __ Archive.org __

==**Visual** ==

In most cases you will have your own visuals for your digital stories. There are websites where you can download images to compliment your digital stories. Again make sure you are using rights free images or creative commons images. Here are a list of links for sites who offer rights free images and video.

__ Archive.org __

Archive.org offers some amazing stuff. Checkout the __ wayback machine __. You type in the website you want to revisit and the date you would like to see it. Its like a time machine. The wayback machine holds records off all sites on the web from the past. This is a great tool to show students that ever though you've removed that half naked picture of yourself off a website it can still be accessed. Also check out the videos on file from the 50's. They are wonderful. __ Dating __, drugs, __ homosexuals __, smoking...all the interesting things about the 50's. All these videos are available to download and use. In most cases anything 50 years older or more is no longer covered by copyright. There also full length movies you can download on here legally that are more than 50 years old.

__ Creative Commons __

Creative commons is a fairly new copyright term. With the introduction of so much sharing on the internet people are now contributing images and music to creative commons sites. In most cases you can use images, audio and video from these sites without payments.

__ Flickr __ is a website which offers some creative commons on image also. Again make sure you are using rights free images. In some cases you need to pay for the use of some images.