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The top five search tools for finding Flickr images are designed to help teachers and students locate just the right image for use in any subject area and project. Without these tools finding the right image on this image hosting site is often an impossible, or at least a tedious, task. The value of this site is its ability to provide digital pictures which are often impossible for a teacher to obtain any other way. Like everything else on the internet, trying to find something is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. This where the top five search tools become valuable resources for teachers and students trying to find images comes into play. These search engines are specifically designed to search the more than three billion pictures on the Flickr hosting site.

This one more tutorial on how to use Bootstrap Modal in Web Development. In this post we will use Bootstrap Modal for upload multiple images on folder by using PHP script with Ajax Jquery without refreshing of page.

A long time ago we looked into the issue of saving images. This short article is really helpful to decide what format to use in each case. Enjoy!

When to opt for .jpg, . png or .gif (It turns out it depends on what you're trying to capture - text, a still image or video/photos). Thanks once again, Amit Agwara!

Will Richardson's blog on "learning with the read/write web"

Will Richardson is Mr. Utopian Education to a lot of people. Even if you don't agree with everything he says, most folks agree that he offers thought-provoking topics.

A small screen capture tool that allows you to take high quality screen captures with excellent support for Windows Aero Glass effects.  In HQ mode, Shotty can capture a selected window with full alpha transparency and save it as 24-bit PNG file, which allows you to merge the image with any other background while maintaining the Aero Glass effect. Shotty can capture the entire desktop, a selected region or a specific window. The program includes a small image editor that lets you crop or resize the capture and also offers several annotation options. You can highlight areas, add custom text, blur selected areas and insert colored or semi-transparent rectangles. Other features include support for delayed captures and image watermarks, integrated uploading to a temporary hosting service, an auto-save option and more. Recommended by DigitalInspiration

"This is a clean and safe site for children and others to find good-quality, printable images that have no copyright restrictions. All the images are in the Public Domain. ... can be integrated in Open Office" (from Sheryl A).

Recommended Fernanda GIMP image manipulation pgm The Audacity for images?

This is one of many resource sites suggest on the Edublogger: http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2008/06/30/share-your-tips-for-creating-andor-finding-images-for-blog-posts/

"Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students.... Unlike many Internet sites, permission has been granted for teachers and students to use all of the images donated to the Pics4Learning collection" (About Pics4Learning, 2008.09.03).

tool that adds Creative Commons licensing parameters to Google Image sources