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- Image * After – currently 21429 free textures and images availableFree high resolution images and textures for commercial and personal use. Daily additions. Free hi-res stock photography, with abstract graphics search.
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Clipart ETC Homepage free collection of over 44,000 pieces of educational clipart for teachers and students. This royalty-free clipart is immediately available to all, no subscription, payments, or any information needed. A good source for older b&w photographs.
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EduPic Graphical Resource for Educators A teacher designed free image resource for use by teachers and students. All images contained within are free for use by educational professionals and the students they serve without permission. All other use is by permission only. All other rights are reserved.
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Flickr: otisarchives1′s Photostream Public domain photographs from the National Museum of Health and Medicine. This fascinating collection documents battle field medicine and life at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Note: some photos in this collection show surgical procedures and other things of a graphic nature.
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How Flickr Can Make you a Better Photographer Flickr allows you to store and share your photos, and it is also an excellent place to get feedback and learn from other photographers. Links at the bottom for others photographic work.
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Plagiarism.org : Learning Center : Plagiarism Definitions, Tips on avoiding Plagiarism, Guidelines for proper citation, & Help Indentifying Plagairism Designed to help educators and students develop a better sense of what plagiarism means in the information age, and to teach the planning, organizational, and citation skills essential for producing quality writing and research.
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Comicbrush Another way to create and share a comic using any combination of your own drawings, photos and ready-to-use artwork.
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Republic Domain – Free Wallpapers and Photos for personal and commercial use ”All photos on this web site are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial. RepublicDomain.com is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers.”
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OpenZine – Create an online magazine – Collaboration with friends Create a blog, roup your posts, design a cover, publish like a magazine. Online collaboration for writers, artists, etc.
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Web 2.0 Possibilities A wonderful example of a visual tool. Great presentaton
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RADCAB – Steps for Online Information Evaluation A critical thinking assessment tool for online information. The online website evaluation looks for relevance, accruacy, detail, currency, authority, and bias
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YouTube – wordia’s Channel Multiple video definitions of words. You can upload your own definitions and subscribe to the word of the day feed at our online visual dictionary:
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All About MakeBeliefComix.com Create a comic strip. The resulting work could be useful for assessment of concepts as well as story starters and learning experience writing.
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Fifteen Interesting Ways to use Google Docs in the Classroom – Google Docs Tips and ideas for using the different types of uses for classroom applications for Google Docs
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Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps 13 applications that are alternatives to PowerPoint; free and online, can be used for many types of online presentations
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tutpup – play, compete, learn An online website that allows pupils to play maths or spelling games against other people from around the globe at different skill levels. Warning: can be very motivating.
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sciencefriday.com – making science user-friendly Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations across the US. Lots of materials on a wide variety of science topics, with audio files and links.
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E-Books Directory – Categorized Books, Short Reviews, Free Downloads E-Books Directory is a categorized index of freely downloadable online books. It is daily updated with new e-books, fresh reviews and free download links.
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Overview – Pixton for Schools™ – Learning with comics On-line comic creation. “A comic has all the grammar and spelling elements of a regular writing assignment. It reinforces all of the State Learning Standards at every single level of your child’s education, so it’s a really important tool.”
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Welcome to HootSuite, the ultimate Twitter toolbox -… The toolbox allows you to manage mulitple twitter accounts, pre-schedule tweets and measure the success of tinyurls
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BibliOdyssey: Weird and Wonderful Images An unusual collection of historic science and art images from rare books and prints
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280 Slides – Create & Share Presentations Online Upload your existing PowerPoint presentations, import them into 280 Slides, add photos and movies to your presentation directly from popular web services like Flickr and YouTube, store your presentations securely on their server, download a copy of your presentation in your favorite format, including the Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 format, put your presentation on SlideShare, e-mail them, or embed it directly on your own website.
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Hubble’s greatest hits: Hubble space telescope images – Telegraph Some of the most beautiful images captured by the Hubble telescope (launched in April 1990).
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Adjix !5 gmail tools
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Thirty-Nine Interesting Ways* to use your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom – Google Docs Ideas/example of different ways to use a Flip video in the classroom.
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CK-12 – Next Generation Textbooks CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the “FlexBook,” CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
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virtualmacbeth » home Virtual Macbeth. They’re remaking Shakespeare’s masterpiece in Second Life
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Welcome to tohby.com A comprehensive site for Tohby Riddle, writer and illustrator of sophisticated picture books.
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Graphic Organizers ”Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. “
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simple private real-time sharing and collaboration by drop.io Conference.io is a simple chat platform, no account required. You type the name of your chat group to create a URL and then share the URL with people you want involved. Allows transfer of files, too.
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Multimedia and Photos – The New York Times Some great interactive sideshows with audio. Great examples of digital narrative and multimedia journalism. Engaging materials for students. Some heavy content though so choose carefully.
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Simon Høgsberg Love these photprojects by Simon Hogsberg. I particularly like this one of 10 new yorkes talking about their faces. Would be great as the basis for a students speaking / writing activity: http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/faces_of_new_york/index.htm Also like this 100 Metres of exitence. Just scroll along and see thee different people. Would be great for describing appearance. Get students to find the people you are descibing http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html
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MIT Press Journals – International Journal of Learning and Media
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