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Wide-ranging public discussion of Creative Commons and related items. Creative Commons runs several lists with more specific charters (e.g., license development, metadata, international porting). See http://creativecommons.org/discuss for a catalog of all public Creative Commons mailing lists.

One of the pages in the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies (c4lpt) website listing tools for learning in a very clear and organised way. According to the site, about 70% of the tools listed are free

Mind-mapping.org has a good capability for selecting software by map type and operating system (click on the 'Refine software list' tab at the top right of its web page), and shows the price. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow you to filter on price or choose to see only the free ones. This article is therefore a quick list to current software that is free or has a free option. It excludes applications that have a time limit on their operation, for example, free trial software or web applications.

VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save.

Ronnie Burt writes "to dispel a few myths and pull together a complete list of resources for teachers and students to use when blogging and working with content online" (2012.02.22).

how do you find media on the Internet?  use this list of specialized search enginges

"This comprehensive collaborative learning workshop guide, developed from the ELI 2009 Fall Focus Session, contains a resource list and five workshop modules intended to reduce some of the extensive work involved in assembling the components and curriculum for such a program. Each of the modules contains topical guidelines, content, resources, and best practices, and each can be easily customized to fit the needs of your institution, department, or unit."

List of resources at mindmap art

Another list of Image resources for digital projects.

My list of image tools

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.

Lots of info about copyright legislation, creative commons etc

A very large list of instructions on how to use various tools in education

| The Teacher Chronicles "A well produced movie can sometimes be enough to shake my world completely. It can change my perspectives on things I thought I was certain about. Here's a list of 10 movies I think that every teacher, or every person working with people, should see (in no particular order)."

Welcome to the Calendar Nexus, Vertex42's directory of free printable calendars and templates. Browse our listings by selecting one of the categories below. The calendars are available in the following formats: Adobe PDF (.pdf), Microsoft Excel (.xls), and GIF image (.gif).

Learning Styles based list of tools

"Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that converts texts to mind maps. It takes a structured list of words or sentences, interprets it, and draws a mind map out of them."

Another list of storytelling resources

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.

Huge collection of flickr tools.

links list to scores of web sites which work with photos from Flickr.com to generate, search, etc.