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Many art teachers are frustrated with expensive photoshop subscriptions and crappy alternative programs. Gimp can be used for free, but the panel design is confusing for the kids and the program is freezing and crashing too often.
Also, students have devices with different operating systems (Windows, Android, Apple), so how to find a free picture editing program, which works for all?
The solution are free online browser-based editing programs like Photopea and PixlR
Many online-platforms for B-Roll popped up in the last years. Also many well known stock photo platforms started to offer video clips.
Some of these platforms even have a selection of free clips, others offer a flatrate subscription.
Free clips
these platform have a small selection of free clips and beyond that are listing clips for purchase.
Flatrate Subscriptions
Envato Elements and Motionarray are the best bargains right now, offering also sound, music and more. Artgrid.io has high quality clips. Soundstripe started a flatrate stock video archive in 2020, but the selection still is limited. What is your recommendation? Write to contact (at) joopeter.de
http://artgrid.io (High quality)
More Information on the following sites:
Apps for education (german website)
The best introduction I found so far which helps beginners to get on the next level of animation: analyzing movement in very clear and entertaining clips
Also, the famous book by Richard Williams, generations of animators used for learning, is now available as an animated app for ipad, introdcution & link to app here.
Do you have a link to recommend on the topic? Suggestions welcome
discover the art by Felipe de Castro here
Kids will love to watch Jon Burgerman speed drawing in the film below 
& and get inspired to try it in class
inspired by Alexander Calder
(works by my students)
works by my students
my students used water color (guache) to paint over these 19th century angels
