ThingLink

ThingLink is a wonderful site/app (iOS) for turning an ordinary image "interactive".  The way this works is by adding/tagging a image, w/ audio, video, or links that get embedded into an image and then activated when the cursor moves over or clicks on it.  Also, the educational portal allows for students to use ThingLink in lots of educational ways such as: create collages, annotate, and even used for digital storytelling.  Best of all, a ThingLink image can be embedded into a site or blog.

Below is an example of a ThingLink image...



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

15 Sites for Finding Images and Clip Art for Education

A while back I did a top 10 sites for finding images and clip art for education.  However, a lot of things have changed since then and a few of those sites no longer exist.  That being said a handful of new and exciting sites have been developed for education for finding images which led me to creating a new list.

*Keep in mind when searching for images for students it is always a good idea to have adult supervision/filtering solution.

** The following list is in alphabetical order...

15 Sites for Finding Images and Clip Art for Education

1. 3D Toad - A innovative site w/ interactive 360 degree rotatable images.
2. Behold - A nice search engine to use w/ adult supervision for finding images on Flickr.
3. Find Icons - A great site for finding free icons to use in the classroom.
4. FreeFoto - A wonderful site for 1000's of free photos that can be used by students.
5. FreePhotoBank - A excellent site for free stock photos.
6. Google Images - A great way to search for images as long as the safe search filter is turned on.
7. humanline - A new site for teachers and students for free images for: art, history, science, etc.
8. ookaboo - A great way to search for free stock photos on a wide variety of subjects.
9. OpenClipArt - A nice site for free clip art.
10. Pics4Learning - One of the most popular image sites for finding images for education.
11. Picsearch - A excellent place for finding images as long as being used w/ adult supervision.
12. School Clip Art - Doesn't get much better then this for free clip art for students and teachers.
13. Sprixi - A great way to search for images w/ adult supervision.
14. Veezzle - A free stock photo search engine and community.
15. Visual Dictionary - not only is this a great place to find educational photos but descriptions and more.

To view my Images for Education board on Pinterest click here.

3D Toad

3D Toad is a site I just found out about from the award winning blog, Free Technology 4 Teachers.  This is a great site for free interactive images for educators and students.  A person can zoom in and rotate the image for a more engaging experience.  Also, these images cover a wide variety of subjects such as: History, Science, Music, and more.

I recommend checking out 3D Toad by clicking here!!!

FreePhoto

FreePhoto is a nice site for finding free and licensed images for students.  There are over 100,000 images 3000 categories available for use.

I recommend checking out FreePhoto by clicking here.

For a more detailed review check out Richard Byrne's blog.

Oolone

Oolone is a new visual search engine that I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog.  Search results come back in large thumbnails that can be scrolled.

I recommend checking out Oolone by clicking here.

Photo Pin

Photo Pin is a site I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's blog.  This is a search engine for photos that is ideal for bloggers.  These photos are free to use being creative commons and offers the user different ways to obtain the photo via: download, links, or code.

I highly recommend checking out Photo Pin by clicking here!!!

For my top 10 sites for finding images click here.

Kozzi

Kozzi is a site I just found out about from Larry Ferlazzo's award nominated blog.  This is a nice site for finding 100% free pictures on any subject.

I recommend checking out Kozzi by clicking here.

Image After

Image After is a site I just found out about from Free Technology 4 Teachers and it is a nice site for finding free images & clip art. There is a lot to this site such as images, textures and extra goodies to search for.

I highly recommend checking out Image After by clicking here!!

Click here for my top 10 sites for images & clip art.

Veezzle

Veezzle is a new free search engine to find free stock photos. This is a great site for finding pictures and the way images get sorted is by having people rate them. The higher the rating the better chance at see that photo.

Below is the search results on the term technology...



Give Veezzle a try by clicking here.

Thanks to Free Technology 4 Teachers for the tip!!

NachoFoto

NachoFoto is a search engine that searches for images in real-time. Thanks to Richard Byrne for the tip.

Below is a pic of the search results on the term, iPad...



I highly recommend checking this out by clicking here.

Visual Dictionary

Visual Dictionary by Webster is such a great resource for schools and in time could end up being the ultimate online dictionary. My only reason I say "in time" is because it is still relatively new and there needs to be more terms/words added before I would use it consistently. For example, I did a search on a bunch of technological terms, and until I made it very vague say w/ the word technology or computer, nothing came up. Although, what VD does have is quite robust; 20,000 terms w/ contextual definitions and 6,000 images.



Visual Dictionary has such an abundance of options for the teacher/student this is a definite resource that every educator should check out. For instance, there is a game section which is great for labeling pictures and so on. Also, there is a School Lesson Plan section on a variety of subjects for ages 4-12 and Highschool. For me personally, my favorite section is the "Tools" section which lets a blogger/web designer grab the code and use any image in their site.

I highly recommend giving Visual Dictionary a look, you'll be happy you did!!!

For more info click here.

BTW, I did test out the filter/content aspect of VD and noticed that you can't pull up any inappropriate images/terms (even bad medical terms). This is great for schools who need to abide by CIPA/COPPA compliance. Although, I would need to see a strict policy in place before I let students start using this un-assisted.