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Snaggy is a web-based tool for drawing on, annotating, and sharing screen captures. To draw or write on your screen capture just paste your screen capture image into Snaggy. Snaggy offers tools for highlighting a section of your screen capture, typing on it, and drawing free-hand on your image. You can also use Snaggy to crop your image. When you're ready to share your screen capture, Snaggy assigns is a custom url that you can Tweet, email, or post anywhere you like. Snaggy lets you save your edited screen captures to your computer too.

Photosforclass.com includes built-in #creativecommons search engine. Great search engine for free images that include image citations. Safe G Rated images.

Yale University has made more than 250,000 digital images available online. Discover Yale Digital Commons is the search engine for the Yale Digital Commons. Through Discover Yale Digital Commons you can search through the archives of five museums, libraries, and galleries administered by Yale. The images in the Yale Digital Commons have been labeled Public Domain.

Here is an inspirational image. I'll use this in professional development settings and to encourage my PLN members.

Three ways to send student work, images, video, etc. to your Dropbox. Check out the differences by trying them out. I've used Jotform as a way to collect videos and images. 

"The Commons is a great place to find images that are free of copyright restrictions. But, if The Commons doesn't have what you or your students need for a multimedia project, here are seven other places you can try your search."

Search engine for images that have Creative Common licensing. It's always a good idea to educate yourself about the content you use. If you're unsure what Creative Commons is, or why copyright is important, take a few moments, find a few photos and and read the "License" information on the photo's page that comes up when you click "more info." The "more info" link is a great way to learn a little bit about the photograph, author, and various Creative Common's licenses, and what (if any) restrictions are applicable to that particular work.

Important blog post of district looking @1:1 computing, and the cost/advantages/disadvantages of iPad/MacBooks/Netbooks in a school environment. I was reminded of Jim Klein's Linux image for netbooks that helps run a faster netbook and is LOADED with 60 educational apps, including Open Office. Installation of image is done with a USB key and takes 4min.20 seconds Lots to consider.

"Alternatives to Google Image Search - Richard Byrne - FreeTech4Teachers.com"

Interesting discussion on copyright issues with Flickr images with Creative Commons license - be sure to read the comments

Sometimes this is the way we feel with events outside of our control.

Problem-based learning and project-based learning provide a rich opportunity for students to deepen their knowledge, expand their repertoire of technical skills, and enhance their appreciation of thinking tools, processes and strategies. The larger goal is for enhanced performance under challenging conditions that demand strategic reasoning, insightfulness, perseverance, creativity, and craftsmanship to resolve complex problems.

Create animated gifs and loop in video. Also learnhow to clip an image outline

This is a helpful, easy to read guide with videos on Evernote, a tool for teachers and students to bookmark, record voicemails, take text and voice notes, upload pictures, docs, PDFs and files, and capture images and information on the web as well as as a software download on your computer or as a plugin for your browser and also as an application for your mobile device. My goal this summer is to begin to maximize the my use of the tool, as I love being able to use it on my computers and mobile devices.

Glogster is a great tool for having students create collages of information they've found and or created. Students can combine videos, images, text, and audio into one online display that can stand alone or be embedded into a blog, website, or wiki. For example, Civics students can create Glogster "glogs" about the candidates running for political office this fall.

This tool allows you to print web pages stripping away all the adds, images, etc. from the page to give you a clean print. It also allows you to save the portions you want to keep in .pdf. Another similar tool is called Printliminator. Check them out. You'll save toner & paper in the process and have the things you want to read in print in an uncluttered format.

This app gives the ability to turn your iPad into a personal IWB! Allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. You can also drop images from your photo library and write on/around them. To see examples, go to ShowMeApp.com. Makes me wish I had an iPad2 to try it out :) 

"Animaps extends the My Maps feature of Google Maps by letting you create maps with markers that move, images and text that pop up on cue, and lines and shapes that change over time. When you send your Animap to friends it appears like a video - they can play, pause, slow and speed up the action!"

This a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.

Going to try using this as part of my venture into digital storytelling