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"Picture to People (P2P) is a huge Computer Graphics project. One of its parts is a big collection of free online professional Computer Graphics effects"

"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities" (Welcome to the World Factbook, ¶1). "Unless a copyright is indicated, information on the Central Intelligence Agency Web site is in the public domain and may be reproduced, published or otherwise used without the Central Intelligence Agency's permission. We request only that the Central Intelligence Agency be cited as the source of the information and that any photo credits or bylines be similarly credited to the photographer or author or Central Intelligence Agency, as appropriate" (Copyright Notice, ¶1)

"This guide is intended to assist people who are interested in exploring interesting works which have entered the public domain. It covers: 1. Collecting leads 2. Online Collections 3. Legal Stuff i. Licensing ii. When Does a Work Pass Into The Public Domain? (Overview, 2012.02.15)

What is "best" depends so much on how you use mind maps. Some people use them for study, some for planning projects, some for organizing information, some for sparking ideas and facilitating brainstorming sessions, some for planning the writing of a report or blog. Some mindmap alone, others mindmap in groups. Most of us probably do all of these from time to time, so we need a quiver full of arrows to choose from, some free, some not so free.

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The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) provides an international forum for scholars, researchers and practitioners to explore the relationship between emerging forms of media and learning, in a variety of forms and settings. The editorial focus is particularly, but by no means exclusively, on young people, and will include a focus on informal and everyday contexts as well as institutions such as schools.

Love these photprojects by Simon Hogsberg. I particularly like this one of 10 new yorkes talking about their faces. Would be great as the basis for a students speaking / writing activity: http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/faces_of_new_york/index.htm Also like this 100 Metres of exitence. Just scroll along and see thee different people. Would be great for describing appearance. Get students to find the people you are descibing http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html

Guideline 1.1 Text Alternatives: Provide text alternatives for any non-text content so that it can be changed into other forms people need, such as large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.

Video from the Swiss TV news where the IFPI.ch spokesperson announces that they will ask ISP's to cut the connection of people using P2P for copyrighted works

| 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)."

a set of photos that describe you, what you know, what you love, where you work. You find pictures that describes those categories about yourself. You also enrich your youtego with micro blogging. You can also find other people that tags the same photos with you under the same categories. I really like the idea of creating tegosets!!

Digital Storytelling Resources for Educators This is a collection of resources to help educators create powerful digital stories. Explore the examples to better understand the ways people are taking the ancient art of storytelling to new and exciting levels with powerful digital tools.

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.

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!

Xtranormal's mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and they believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century.

Change the shape of peoples faces

Since the launch of the captions features for YouTube videos in last august, YouTube allows user add captions to one of your videos by uploading a closed caption file using the "Captions and Subtitles" menu on the editing page. This feature is used for people using other languages and even who are deaf or hard of hearing.

What you can do here... · create your own animation · save it to your webspace · share and reuse artwork · collaborate with others · show your animation

FluxTime Studio is free - you can create, edit and play your own animation clips, and send them as e-cards to friends and family. Paid account adds Save and organise your work. FluxTime clipart and animation can be reused as components, you can build collections of clipart in your own style to quickly animate and tell a story. Share clipart and animation with other animators, use the graphical mail system to collaborate. E-mail animation clips as e-cards to people who have no FluxTime Studio account. Show animation clips in the FluxTime Animation Gallery where they can be seen by a global audience, and embed them in your own website or blog. School membership includes a teacher account and administration panel to manage student accounts.