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Useful Tools and other Web Resources
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on September 25, 2008 at 12:41:06 pm
Table of Contents
Applications
Reference
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Encylopedias
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Dictionaries
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Copyright Issues
Video
Images
- Pics4Learning is another smart choice. Like Picsearch, Pics4Learning’s photos are student-safe, but more importantly, they’re also copyright-friendly, which means you’re free to use any photos you find. That’s because the site’s thousands of images have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. But since the engine only has access to a relatively small number of images, our search for chocolate yielded just 24 hits, including pictures of Milky Way, Heath, and Toblerone bars—yum—as well as a few photos of cacao beans and chocolate factories.
- Flickr isn’t a search engine, it’s a great place to search for photos. Many of Flickr’s millions of pictures are copyright-friendly—through an agreement with the nonprofit organization Creative Commons—and you can easily find what you’re looking for by using its Advanced Search. Register for free, and take advantage of Flickr’s safe-search option. But inappropriate images may still sneak under its radar. And like Picsearch, Flickr also doesn’t let you exclude certain terms (like phone) from your search.
- Wikimedia Commons, a database of images, music, and videos that’s available for educational purposes, as long as you attribute their source. To find out the owner of an image or its licensing agreement, just click on the picture. (As Wikimedia sensibly reminds us, visitors are ultimately responsible for verifying the ownership of any of the materials they use.) Responding to our obsession with chocolate, Wikimedia dished up 676 images, many of which looked good enough to eat.
- Creative Commons
- Google Images: not all these images are free to use as you wish though
Slide Shows
Utilities
Curriculum Tools
Curriculum Resources
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Art
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English
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French
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Humanities
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ICT
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Life Skills
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Maths
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Music
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PE
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Science
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Spanish
Online images
These links are not for subject specific curriculum resources generally, but generic tools across the curriculum, websites that are fascinating in themselves for all sorts of subjects and age groups.
Useful Tools and other Web Resources
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