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A place for stock photos. Organized roughly by topics and popular searches.

R. Stannard has created a tutorial for wallwisher.com, now called "Padlet" This tool is nice for creating a visually oriented board of notes where students can tell others what they are doing, for example, on a project; or to keep interesting photos and weblinks.

"Timelines is a site where history meets social media. The website itself is very useful by categorizing key historical events in several ways. You can browse the site by era, type of event (ie; war), or by date. They have a neat page where you simply select a date and the events that occurred on that date appear. Almost everything you find on Timelines is created by their community and registered users can record events and contribute descriptions, photos, videos and links related to events. Unlike a wiki, the site is built to display various (and potentially conflicting) descriptions of the same event from many different contributors which is always important when trying to understand historical events. Timelines is a great site because it allows you to report and discover history with your friends, colleagues, and students." from Learning Never Stops Blog

A tools to record responses to a primary source, which might be video, photo, audio, etc., as well as paper. A nice guide for students as well as scholars.

This is a great description of how a teacher organized a poetry slam in his high school. Includes a video of the slam and Flickr photos, and detailed directions for how to elicit poetry, ground rules, etc. This is a great way to bring a school together.

Very detailed description of how to create little presentations or posters using Flickr photos, videos, et al. Use Popplet for student projects, brainstorming, creative designs. Also allows you to add captions/text and draw on images you use.

This is such a great idea! Nina created a page wher we could link or photostream all the Webhead activities at TESOL Boston in 2010. This one is Carla's but the tags will be helpful (see Spezify.com) --EHS

Includes quiz=maker, a URL shortener, copyright-free stock photo site, social media aggregator, a pdf file merger, debate platform, etc. Very useful tools.

"In the playlist you will find videos about tools for flipping your classroom, videos on managing workflow, social media tips, search strategies, and media production. The playlist also contains videos about tools like Remind, Duolingo, ClassDojo, Classtools, Photos for Class, and many other popular web services for teachers and students. " The entire playlist is embedded in this site. A nice way to prep yourself for the school year. From R. Byrne

You can use photos, video (Flash or Javascript), and text to create interactive, really beautiful timelines that work in any browser. Great for student projects.

How to do a chain story with a photo and grid passed around class. Read to write to read.

A blog post describing how to use Blogsy to post via iPad. With mobile learning on the rise, this seems a good app for anyone to have, although it costs $4.99 currently. You can blog to any of the major services, such as Blogger or Wordpress, and also photo and video share to Picasa, Flickr, YouTube, and Vimeo. Now your mobile students have no excuse not to post to their blogs.

Still in what I would call Beta, Mbedr is a handy tool to ensure that Flickr embedded notes will show up when you embed the photo on your own site/blog. Some reported glitches, so follow the blog links. For advanced/confident users only. Embedded notes can be used for instructional purposes, especially when students create their own labels.

This is super cool -- kindergartners use primary resources, such as old movies and photos, from the Library of Congress to explore and analyze how the mail was delivered in the old days and compare it to present work practices and jobs. I really got a kick out of the kids' comments about the mail train and sorting mail. Great example of how content-based, authentic materials can inspire even very young learners.

"This summer, PBS LearningMedia turns the spotlight on our spectacular collection of resources supporting literacy skills development in grades PreK-12. Educators are invited to visit our new summer literacy collection with featured resources from Martha Speaks, Poetry Everywhere, and The Electric Company! " Learning Media offers access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready digital resources -- video, games, photos, lesson plans, etc. All free. For K-12 students, though not specifically for ELLs.

This creative mapping tool can hold text, photos, and multimedia. Would be nice to use with an international project. Requires sign-up and log-in

"Most people don't think about the useful editing tools that are built into YouTube. The YouTube video editor has some useful features for teachers and students." The tools R. Byrne's describes are photo slideshow creation, slow-motion, annotation to link videos, blurring faces, stabilizing footage, and adding color/light filters. You can also add captions, music track, and select privacy options. This blog entry alo links to several more ways to improve your videos and add interactive elements.

A tool to let you pack images together with little marks to show where they "link" on a main photo page. Include text and video. An interesting tool to pack a lot of information behind one significant image for digital storytelling. For iPhone with Android coming soon, as of this writing.

These are 4 websites/tools I hadn't heard of before, and any of them would be very useful for student projects. Mural.ly lets students collaborate on posters by emai invite. Wor Draw turns out professional-looking flyers, resumes, and newsletters-- good for a class newspaper. Tackk lets you add pictures, videos, and music from various social websites, and Picovico is perhaps the mos impressive because it creates videos from your photos and text. (Thanks to M. Sheehan.)

Infographics are all the rage. I think they used to be called graphs or illustrations, but they have the flair of lots more visuality -- colors, icons, photos, animation, and interactivity are all part of these applications. R. Byrne's describes them all and has links to some of these tools, plus a few extras.