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draws from nearly a thousand photos on flickr tagged with "5cardflickr"You are dealt 5 random photos from Flickr and you choose one to add to your story. You then repeat this 4 more times until you have 5 photos that you can then use to tell a story.

"Poetry Blender This fun tool lets you combine text, symbols and photos. Enter text you want on the right, and pick photos clicking the photo boxes on the left. "

 is from the same people who produced Phrasr. It lets you use flickr photos to make picture books which you can publish or share. A nice tool for literacy.

http://www.shwup.com Bring together your photos and video. Create muvees with your friends and family.

This image editor does only one thing, but does it well. It adds speech and thinking bubbles to photos and images. Really easily and the results look great. Good for making comic strips with your class

"collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting. Lesson plans also included."

Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 15 million items on Europeana. These objects include: * Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects * Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers * Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts * Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts"

"Basic but still valuable."

asks you to type a phrase and the site will pull in words from Flickr to match each word and then animates them in sequence. You can save them, and link to old ones via the archive. Here's an example.

is a quick way of turning a poem, sentence or chunk of random text into a sequence of Flickr photographs.

Flickr is a fantastic site for sharing photographs with others, and as such it's also a brilliant resource for finding and using photographs to use in a lesson.

"Pin your history to the world"