Behold

Behold is a nice new search engine that I just found out about from Free Technology 4 Teachers. This engine searches for free creative common images on Flickr.

I highly recommend checking out Behold by clicking here!!!

For my top 10 sites for finding images click here.

Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art

Finding images on the internet for educators to use has been a common problem problem for many alike. This can happen for a number of reason such as: copy right privileges, inappropriateness, etc etc.

While there are a number of paid solutions for finding images such as Nettrekker or Discovery Streaming, there are a number of free alternatives that work nicely as well.

However, keep in mind that most of the sites listed below do not have built in filters for images. These image search engines should be used either by educators (adults assisting students) or go in hand in hand w/ a school district filtering solution and Acceptable Use Policy.

Top 10 Sites for Images & Clip Art

1. Pics4Learning - A very popular site to find free safe to use images for teachers and students.
2. Cyclo.ps - A search engine that searches the most popular free image engines around and provides a nice one stop shopping of sorts.
3. School Clip Art - A great site for free school clip art.
4. Ookaboo - A nice creative commons (free) site for finding great images for class work.
5. Picsearch - Excellent image search engine if used w/ a district's filtering solution.
6. Veezzle - A wonderful free stock photo search engine.
7. Google Swirl - An innovative way to search for images and see their relationships w/ each other (use w/ Google Safe Search enabled).
8. Free Photo Bank - An easy way to find creative common images.
9. Open Clip Art - A great way to find free clip art to use.
10. Find Icons - A nice site for free icons.

Photo Face

Photo Face is a site I stumbled across quite a while ago but was reminded of it after reading about it on Larry Ferlazzo's excellent blog. After messing around on it I've decided that this could be a fun way to use technology w/ your students and especially in art/photography type classes.

Basically, you can either use a stock photo or upload your own (head/shoulders profile works best) and then by moving the mouse you control where the picture looks. Also, you can add expressions by clicking on one of emoticons, add audio, and then export/share your video.

Very easy to use and a lot of fun!!!

Click here for more info.

Below is a sample video I made using my oldest's pic from a few years ago. Look out Chucky/eTrade baby!!!