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"There's one question we get asked quite often: Where can you find free, good quality images that are cleared to use for your blog posts or social media content? It's a question with a lot of different answers and caveats. Nearly every image created in the last 30 years is still protected by copyright-a protection that gives virtually every author the exclusive right to use or reproduce their work. But you can find a public domain photo, use a Creative Commons image that might need attribution or even create your own image from scratch. We'll explore all of these and then some in this post about free image sources. A few things to know before we get started:"

"Most of the guides out there for working with Creative Commons content, especially images, are for image makers who want to pick a license for making their own work available. Even the Creative Commons site itself is geared toward Creative Commons license users, and not Creative Commons-licensed content users. So as a small Public Service Announcement, we've put together this brief intro to Creative Commons image usage. This guide is aimed at two types of users: 1) publishers big and small who want a high-level overview of Creative Commons licensing and the issues involved in sorting out what can be used where, and 2) advertisers big and small, who want to make use of Creative Commons-licensed images while staying in the good graces of content makers and end-users. "

Viintage is a neat site that developed by a husband and wife graphic design and photography team. Viintage features collections of vintage posters, postcards, and various printed advertisements that have been released into the public domain. Viintage hosts thousands images organized into dozens of categories like vintage travel posters, classic alphabet learning books, and vintage nursery rhymes images. You can download medium resolution (600px-3000px) copies of the images for free and higher resolutions are available to premium site members.

"If you are frequently sharing images online it's essential to have a virtual rolodex of go-to websites where you can quickly and effectively find free images. Not only that- but it's important that you have websites in which the legal restrictions are clear and concise. Below you will find my go-to list of the best sources for finding free photos for sharing online. I've also included some of my favorite paid resources as well just in case."

"The handy flowchart will help you decide whether or not you can use a particular image on your website. Assuming that you have identified the original source and that they have given you the necessary permission to use the picture, the poster also suggests ways on how you can properly credit the photographer."

Capture your screen by pressing Command+Shift+Control+3. use snaggy's simple editor to crop and annotate your image. you can also paste selections from your favorite image editor. paste local files and images from websites into snaggy."

"we've listed the museums and research institutions that have large, high-quality, free-to-use collection of historically or aesthetically notable images online."

"In this post, we'll break down more than 50 different sources and tools for visual content. We'll cover the following (click on any section to be taken to that area directly): Searchable photo sites Free-form photo libraries Photo search tools Create-your-own image tools Embeddable media"

"Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos & images for classrooms, multimedia projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting."

Finding free, high-quality photos is a tedious task - mainly due to copyright issues, attribution requirements, or simply lack of quality. This inspired us to create Pixabay - a repository for public domain images of extraordinarily high-quality. You can freely use any image from this website in digital and printed format, for personal and commercial use, without attribution requirement to the original author.

"As I shared last week, Photos for Class is now available as an Edmodo app. With Photos for Class installed in your Edmodo group your students can search for Creative Commons licensed images and download them with citations attached to them. In the video embedded below I provide a demonstration of how to install Photos for Class. The second half of the video demonstrates a students' perspective of using Photos for Class within Edmodo."

"Google Images - free video tutorials. Visit TeachertrainingVideos.com for more free online courses and online IT courses."

"According to our research, more than 90% of Creative Commons photos are not attributed at all. To make matters worse, less than 10% of the photos that do credit the original work are attributed properly. This means that more than 99% of Creative Commons photos are not adequately attributed. Not without pride, we are happy to notice that most of the bloggers using Foter.com attribute CC photos properly, which is greatly facilitated by our "ready to paste" attribution info. Every time they intend to use a searched image, all they need to do is copy the image and the accompanying attribution details into their blogs. Most is not enough, though. People often find CC photos on various sites and wonder how to attribute them. In order to help you, our team prepared a comprehensive infographic that reflects interesting research findings, gives details of Creative Commons licenses and illustrates how to properly attribute CC photos.

"This screencast demonstrates three easy ways to search and use Copyright Free images."

"Teachers and their students are moving more and more online. Kids are blogging their learning as an excellent way to build confidence, reflect and gather feedback. Schools are showcasing the best of their students' work on their websites.and the educational world is benefiting from a collaborative worldwide connections. That's all exciting and positive but we have one important question: Who owns the material and it's components when it's published? This is where we must all be careful. A quick Google search will find a growing number of cases where people have sought damages for even single images republished on both blogs and social media like Twitter. This link tells the story of a bad photo taken on a phone that was found on Google and used In a blog Post resulting in an $8000 out of court settlement. Every photo is owned by the photographer automatically and if you choose the wrong image you can loose out substantially."

"Over 2,000 free downloadable clipart images for kids, including holidays, animals, people and many other fun clipart themes."

This video outlines how the Edmodo app can be used to collect student created IMAGES and VIDEOS from a classroom set of iPads.

EduClipper is the latest in a string of Pinterest clones, true (See below), but Bellow's experience in education - in the classroom and with professional development - should give him a leg up in creating a tool that'll work in classrooms and that'll work for teachers. EduClipper lets you build clipboards into which you can post links, images, videos and documents and upload files to share with others. These clipboards can be private or public - that's a key dfferentiator between eduClipper and its competitors- clipped for one's self and/or shared to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Evernote, and Edmodo or via email.

Education today thus faces several critical gaps: * Between the world that young people experience outside the classroom and the world within * Between the skills that students learn in school and those they will need later in life * Between those who have access to high-quality education and tools and those who do not It is increasingly an accepted truth that education systems must evolve to meet the needs of the students and societies they serve, changing their mission from knowledge transmission to preparation for future learning

"Gliffy Diagrams is a Google Chrome app that makes the process of creating all such diagrams a lot easier. You can not only create a vast range of diagram types, but also modify them in plenty of ways, save the output as image files, and even export it to Google Docs, presentations, or web pages."