The Educational Technology Clearinghouse sponsored by Florida’s Department of Education has thousands of free images, maps, and slide formats for teachers and students to use. The ETC offers 20,000 slide show templates/ backgrounds and 35,000 free clip art images. The ETC also has a great collection of maps categorized by continent and theme.

Applications for Education
The Educational Technology Clearinghouse is a great place to direct students toward as they begin to learn how to build slide show presentations. The ETC’s collection of images and slide templates has everything a student could need to construct a basic slide show.
The map section of the ETC provides teachers with a great place to find free maps of types to use in the classroom.