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"Everystockphoto is an excellent search engine that allows you to conduct quick searches for free photos. Students can use it to look for images to use in their class projects and/or in their blogs and websites. Everystockphoto indexes and searches millions of free photos in all around the web. Photos returned in search results come under different licenses. Students need to verify the source license of images and make sure they have the permission to use them in their work."

Find photos that you can use freely without violating copyright.

"Capsure lets you share personal moments in private with family and friends with photos, audio and video. As social media becomes more cross-generational, we begin to filter ourselves more often. Instead of sharing one moment with everyone, share different moments with special groups by inviting them to join digital boards. Boards could be for collaborating on family history, a special place, person or topic - you choose!"

Here is a terrific site for creating an online photo album or scrapbooks. This site also allows collaboration which make it ideal for group projects. Signing up does require an email address but no other personal information is needed. The site is very simple to use as all you need is to add pictures and then text to accompany each picture and the site does the rest. Once you are done the book can be downloaded as a PDF to be handed in or students can share the book with the teacher.

Enter a tag, press play, and see how well you can communicate a coherent message illustrated by 20 random photos, each one on screen for 20 seconds. Advanced options let you change the number of images and/or the timing.

Talking Cutie is a fun free iPad app that lets you add voices to images. Simply take a photograph, and then record up to 60 seconds of narration over the top. You can then add a talking face to the object - choosing from a wide range of different features. This would have lots of uses in the classroom. Children could add a short description of an artefact in history, historical characters, famous people, they could describe different animals and plants in science. This would be great for foreign language work, with the children speaking short phrases in the target language. The app changes the voice, so children who hate hearing themselves shouldn't have a problem when the finished video is played back, as it doesn't sound like them.

February 7, 2015 Pixlr Editor is a great photo editing tool that you can use to work on the pictures and images you want to use with your students or in your presentations. Pixlr is easy and simple to use and works right from your web browser. It is also integrated with Google Drive.

Tell your story with Thematic Using your own photos, its free and easy to share

"Beautiful, free photos. Gifted by the world's most generous community of photographers.

Quick Rubric is a new tool from the folks in Photos for Class. This is a new web based application that allows you to easily set up criterion-referenced rubrics to score your students performances and assignments. You can use Quick Rubric to create rubrics to help you assess things such as oral presentations, writing projects, reading comprehension, storytelling and many more. Rubrics are also proved to be of great help when grading students works especially essay and long narrative writing.

"With Bloomz, teachers can safely communicate with parents, share class photos & updates, and coordinate through volunteer and conference signups."

"FotoJet uses a template-based approach to creating collage projects and, best of all, you don't need to be a graphics pro to turn out some "pro looking" imaging projects."

Create photo slideshows, share via email or social media, embed in blog.

Photo slideshow, slow-motion videos, create linked series of videos, blurring faces in videos, adding color/light filters, add captions, add music, hide the video from public

For those who haven't heard of Canva prior to this post, it is a service that makes it easy to create beautiful slides, flyers, posters, infographics, and photo collages. Creating these graphics on Canva is a drag-and-drop process. Start by selecting a template then dragging and dropping into place background designs, pictures, clip art, and text boxes. Canva offers a huge library of clip art and photographs to use in your designs. You can also upload your own images to use in your graphics. Your completed Canva projects can be downloaded as PDF and PNG files. You can also simply link to your online graphic.

Insert images from Drive or take photos with webcam and insert those.

Typito is a good tool for creating simple videos. Typito is designed for making audio slideshows like those you might have made in the old YouTube photo slideshow tool or with Animoto. Typito offers a bit more control over the editing process than Animoto does.