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The World's easist way to search for safe, creative commons images and cite them.

Love it, Mallory...thanks for the work you do to keep us up to date. I always look forward to your recommendations and often share them with staff.

Shidonni is an innovative startup, developing the next generation of creative 'virtual' worlds for kids. Shidonni is providing a safe environment where kids and their parents can create imaginary worlds and animals, play games and interact with friends. Shidonni is based on unique proprietary patented algorithms and using Microsoft Silverlight.

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Article includes many sources for educators to find and share CC resources, lessons, etc. Curriki for example.

Set of free graphic organizer templates...very creative looking but "freeform" so you can adapt them to your own uses.

Great post shows the difference between old-school and wonderfully creative Pro-D on technology. Participants used tech in the course of real problem solving. Posts about ChatterPix written by Ms. Hayes

Are you ready to move beyond bullets? Here are some very creative PPT templates that will scaffold your students' presentations. Click on the sidekicks bar on the left to get started with PPT ideas (and downloads) for Book Blasts, e-stories, scrapbooks,

Slideshow of 35 creative ways to use a pocket video camera such as a Flip Mino. Kathy Rice found this; might need to sign in to Google docs to access.

Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?

In this section of Flickr, people have already given various levels of permissions to use their photos.

You read a snippet of a story and then you click 'read more' at which time you are presented with unique paths to continue the story. You choose. If you wish you can then add to the story by grafting your own snippet onto the story. Popular snippets get ranked and continue, unpopular snippets disappear.

After you try a couple of these, look up "magic pen" on youtube and prepare to be amazed!