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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.

lots of images in 3D...many subject areas; also works on iPads

One very quick way to look up words on Google is simply to type define:anyword in the Google search field. However, their actual dictionary is far and away my favourite of all the dictionaries I've reviewed, mainly because of its clean, ad-free format. When you click on a sound icon to hear a word pronounced, it doesn't open in another annoying window. The definitions are not too complicated for use by school kids and there are examples used in context and links to other definitions found on the web. At any time, at the top of the page, you can also access web-links, images, videos, etc. that are part of a regular Google search. The site also works with NaturalReader.

Excellent engaging and educationally sound instructional videos. This science site for grades 1-6 also has great accessibility options including visual, auditory and keyboard shortcuts. I learned about this from Paul Hamilton's October 20, 2008 post. According to Paul, Many of the activities include captioned video where the "captions" can be read aloud. Other activities use diagrams and interactive images to present material. All text can be read aloud, and can be repeated upon request.

Drag and drop (or type) words from a word bank onto an image. Would be outstanding for writing Haiku. Reviewed by Kelly Tenkley at iLearn Technology Jan 14, 2009.

This section of flikr teaches social studies by inviting you to comment or tag photos. I searched for Titanic and found some very poignant images with comments by the people who had viewed the picture already. This could be a very powerful learning tool.

Convert files to just about any image, document, audio, or video type.

Great pics to support study of geology

A downloadable pdf shows you how to use the accessibility features on the Mac.

Navify is an interface for viewing Wikipedia articles with videos, music, photo galleries, and comments. One of the strategies for supporting students' recognition network is using multiple examples and using a variety of media. This resource makes it easy!

Converting sound, text and video files, video, music and documents