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Great archive of NASA pictures

An option to publish your video/audio material. Especially useful if you have large files, as you can use a CC Publisher app that helps you to (a) tag your material with a cc license and (b)upload it to the Internet Archive (free hosting)

"In spite of the creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ license, which is the less restrictive of the options offered by Flickr, this picture, being a screenshot, is obviously in the public domain as copyright law only covers creative works. Transcript: [URL box: creators.ning.com/main/index/banned#] [several toolbars] Page content: YOU HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED FROM CREATORS Sorry, Claude Almansi, you can not access Creators as you have been suspended. If you think you've been suspended in error, you can contact the administrator. Click here to delete your content from Creators. Message to the Administrator: I would have been out in a few hours anyway. You can keep or delete my content yourself. I have archived what I need. I'll just take a screenshot of this page as a souvenir before I hit Send Message. Fare well, though I'm aware it won't be easy to, if you go on working for Ning. Claude Almansi [Send Message button]"

historical photos

An App that helps you to tag your video and audio work under cc licensing and to upload it for free to the Internet Archive

The VADS image collection provides over 100,000 art and design images free for use in education, drawn from university and college art collections, museums and archives across the UK

Alternate text is not meant to be used as a tool tip, or more specifically, to provide additional information about an image. The title attribute, on the other hand, is meant to provide additional information about an element. That information is displayed as a tooltip by most graphical browsers, though manufacturers are free to render title text in other ways. Thanks to Alexis Antonelli http://uxconsultant.com/ for the reference

Images of England is a 'point in time' photographic library of England's listed buildings, recorded at the turn of the 21st century. You can view over 300,000 images of England's built heritage from lamp posts to lavatories, phone boxes to toll booths, mile stones to gravestones, as well as thousands of bridges, historic houses and churches.

Really striking images with good short texts. The images can really motivate students to want to dig deeper and read the text. From the Boston Globe "The Big Picture" web pages, collections of some of the most amazing photographs that range from natural wonders to political events. The page includes an RSS feed, a comments section, and archives are also available.

this is one of those collections that moves around the web - but they would make great writing prompts!

"We do not want to be belligerent about it. It is just that we do not want to project the impression that we want everybody to stop using the technology, or that this technology is too expensive."

via michelleolah

ways to use your flip video camera in the classroom