These sites are great for finding clipart, icons, backgrounds, and animated gifs to enhance your digital work, whether it be word processing documents, powerpoint presentations, or webpages.  The sites are also appropriate for students to search for graphics for their multimedia projects as well.

To use a graphic for most projects, simply right-click on the graphic of your choice, then copy the image. Open your document, then Edit/Paste to place the graphic.

For websites, make sure you right-click and then select Save Image from the menu, place the graphic in the proper folder, then use your web-authoring software to insert the image. Be sure you upload your image along with your webpage.
 

Recommended Clipart/Graphic Sites

Pics4Learning is a great site with a wealth of photographs and graphics for use in an educational setting. You may search the site for specific pictures, or browse the site by categories. These are copyright-friendly images for educational uses. http://pics.tech4learning.com/pics/index.htm
Kids Domain offers clipart, icons, and animated gifs for students and teachers.  http://www.kidsdomain.com/clip/
Teacher Files ClipArt  has educational graphics and icons suitable for webpages, newsletters, and multimedia presentations. There is also a handy search tool. http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm
Awesome Clipart  not only has a great collection of school related clipart, it also has neat wordsearch, cryptogram and puzzlemaker pages. http://www.awesomeclipartforkids.com/generalindex.html
Design Gallery Live This site is perfect for inserting graphics into any Microsoft Office product, such as Word or PowerPoint. You can download pictures to a place of your choosing by clicking on graphic, then right clicking and saving picture to file. Or download the graphics into the ClipArt Gallery in Microsoft Office. http://dgl.microsoft.com/
Take advantage of the Google image search! Once you have entered search terms, scroll to find an image you would like to use. Click on the image and Google will take you to the site where the image is found. From there, you can usually find a link to get a larger image.  http://www.google.com
Phyllis's backgrounds and Alphabets website contains a lot of interesting backgrounds suitable for non-profit school use.  http://www.eskimo.com/~physmith/Backgrounds.html
The Amazing Picure Machine is a searchable database with great photographs suitable for many educational projects. Tips on doing a good search are also available.  http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm