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Let's address standards, challenge students, and instill a love of learning in young people through engaging, visually-rich resources and activities. Learn to integrate the growing body of quality print and web-based graphic reading resources for young people across the K12 curriculum. Beyond the superheroes of traditional comics, today's graphic communication projects help students synthesize and apply digital scraps, primary source documents, photographs, charts and graphics, and other visuals to create meaningful communications.

WPClipart is a collection of high-quality public domain images specifically tailored for use in word processors and optimized for printing on home/small office inkjet printers. There are thousands of color graphic clips as well as illustrations, photographs and black and white line art. Nearly all are in lossless, PNG format. As of Friday, 12/12/2008 there are 23,907 images.

Royalty Free clip art source.

Create special image and text effects

Customize Photos, Clip Art

Customize Photos, Clip Art

Free! Minimal preparation required For kids in school or on summer vacation Appropriate for ages 9-17 (grades 4-12) Engaging (even fun!) project for students STEM integrated with language arts Cash awards, remote mentoring session with professional graphic artist

IconBug.com has some of the hottest icons and clip art images online in an easy to search database that is available online 24/7 for free. If you are looking for something special use the search box to the right. Start typing and our engine will generate search suggestion based off our most popular content.

via Ced Paine Click at different points. As with any art tool, the challenge is to know the tools well enough to create what you you want to express.

An increasingly significant aspect of literacy is an awareness of the visual elements that fall beyond the traditional components of written text. Termed 'Visual Literacy' this is the ability to read and create communications that use visual elements. It combines the skills of traditional literacy with knowledge of design, art, graphic arts, media and human perception. It takes literacy further beyond a decoding of text to a decoding of the complete package around the communication.

An online picture generator. It is a free tool you can use to rapidly create original art. Take two images and combine them into one.

Education users Professors, students and teachers are free to use it in classroom presentations and demos, dissertations and other non-commercial academic works, researches and all related not-for-profit activities. The use of our files is still bound by a license but its use is completely free as long as:   (1) the downloaded image is used according to its terms and conditions; (2) humanline.com is accredited as the source by a credit line or an active link to our website; and (3) it is not distributed to third parties. via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2012/04/humanline-thousands-of-historic-images.html

From Kathy Schrock

Beautiful, zoomable presentation tool. Currently still in private beta, and they sound stingy about invites, but very nice looking site!