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"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. "

This is an interesting image tool. Upload images and annotate. You can other embed media inside the annotations. Annotations pop up as you click or hover over the objects you add. You can embed the annotated image into webpage or blog. This could be a useful tool for teachers and students. Lots of scope for creativity with layers etc. You can share to a group and set editing permissions for public or restricted people/groups for collaboration purposes.

Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Our goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training.

An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - find resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. And Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too. Everyone has an insight to share and yours may be just what some student or teacher somewhere needs!

You are invited to host or participate in a DigiTales Storytelling Camp . Bring your memories, experiences, images, videos, and other memorabilia along with a readiness to have great fun and learning. No techno savvy needed to join in! This is a perfect experience for beginning storytellers or technology learnersmemorable experiential event designed to give paper-trained adults of all ages an in-depth and personal immersion with the power of reading/writing multimedia communication.

ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. From there you'll also be able to directly access the tool and use it in your classroom.

In this workshop you will: * Design a basic story concept that can be created in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video. * And then create it quickly using one of 50+ different web tools that are free to use. * Plus, you will share in this wiki site your example and observations on the value of the tool

Most Web Design Layouts are normally done in Photoshop and since its the most overused application on creating web layouts, I list down some of the most helpful and nice photoshop tutorials on how to make a good web design layout to enhance your experience and ideas.

Use Falcon and Talon to quickly capture images and web pages from your browser and crop, resize or mark them up.

Vocabulary is the key to expressing yourself well in any language and the key to learning and improving your vocabulary is constant revision. Luckily there are lots of sites which can help to make this easier and more fun.

Fotobounce is a desktop application. Fotobounce allows you to share in a couple of different ways: a) you can upload your photos to Facebook with all of your tagging information, b) you can upload your photos to Flickr, and c) you can view your photos remotely via Fotomobile from a PDA such as the Blackberry, iPhone or iPod Touch. Download albums from FaceBook and Flickr. Fotobounce is freeware, works on Windows and Mac OS X.

Today's activity is about talking about your city and the things you love, and was inspired by a YouTube video that tells a short love story. The Story is set in Beirut in Lebanon and tells the story of how two young people meet and fall in and out of love. The video though is also a tribute to the city that they both love and the things that they like about it.

Quick, easy, and reliable, Motionbox is a secure place to share, edit, and store personal videos. It doesn't matter how long they are or how many videos you have. You get: Virtually unlimited storage Large file uploads Secure Video Sharing HD Playback High-quality downloads DVDs and flipbooks made from your videos

Mr Picassohead is a fun website. It allows users to create their own 'Picasso' by selecting different types of faces and facial features, colours and so on and dragging them onto a canvas. It is a great way to begin a unit of work on Picasso, Cubism or abstract art with students.

The images in Ookaboo are public domain or creative commons and can be used freely for blogs, web sites, schoolwork, publications, and other creative projects. Ookaboo is a free service of Ontology2 © copyright 2009. Images on this site are licensed under various Creative Commons licenses; Image descriptions and metadata are CC-BY-SA.

Welcome to ARKive, a unique collection of thousands of videos, images and fact-files illustrating the world's species. You can explore and search ARKive's continually expanding multi-media collection via the navigation bar at the top of every page.

Image*After is a large online free photo collection. You can download and use any image or texture from our site and use it in your own work, either personal or commercial.