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Wylio makes it easy to find, credit, and use Creative Commons images. Photo authors should get credit. Content creators should find legal, free, pictures easily. So we invented Wylio. The super sonic, thrifty, all-in-one Creative Commons picture finder, re-sizer, and credit builder.

Interactive website that you can type in any tag and it will come up with thousands of pictures from the location of your choice. If you type in Texas a lot of planets with cities in Texas will show up and then you can click on a city to see pictures from that specific spot.

This webpage provides a picture tutorial for creating a Google custom search engine.

This webpage provides a picture tutorial for creating a Google custom search engine.

Edutopia blogger Todd Finley examines visual literacy through the lens of the Common Core, suggesting a wealth of visual thinking routines to help students start thinking through, about and with pictures.

Edutopia blogger Todd Finley examines visual literacy through the lens of the Common Core, suggesting a wealth of visual thinking routines to help students start thinking through, about and with pictures.

Tineye is a free tool that helps you conduct reverse image searches. In a reverse image search you're searching for the places where an image has been posted online. Conducting a reverse can be a good way for students to discover information about an object or location featured in a picture. As demonstrated above, when the image is located through Tineye students can click through to the source to see how the image was used and what was written about the image. Performing a reverse image search can provide students with a good lesson on digital footprints. Have them conduct a reverse image search for images they have posted online and then count the number of places where that image has appeared.

Great way to learn how to use a PLN in education !

This is a ning site dedicated to the support of a Personal Learning Network for Educators. This website creates connections between professionals and provides many available resources.

This site is actually a PLN for educators to communicate information and includes numerous types of discussion.

This article shares a history of technology in the classroom and paints a picture for what the future might hold. When discussing different types of classrooms, this article can provide insight on where we have been, where we are now, and where we are going. This information can be helpful so that we can be visionaries for the future.

By using Pinterest, teachers can see just how other teachers have used PBL in their own classrooms. Viewing pictures, infographics, and websites that the teachers used.

This is a blog by Sarah Hagan, an Oklahoma math teacher. In it, you can find activities she does in her classroom, information about her, free math downloads, pictures of the class "textbook" and more.

This webpage provides a picture tutorial for creating a Google custom search engine. It also includes specific instructions for creating a search engine of videos for use in the classroom.

This App is sooo cool!! Students take pictures of their work, save their notes, etc and it uploads to their digital portfolio!

This is another cite to explore, that also enables users to create info-graphs.

Create posters with information that can be neatly presented to the class after being printed off. Instead of worrying about whether or not the glue is going to hold the pictures on you can easily create a custom poster online now.

Allow student's to make their writing come to life. Students are able to illustrate, add audio and animation, and create a unique project to make their family proud. Ideal for children's picture books, photo books, art books, cook books, manuals, textbooks, and more.

This app can be found in the Apple Store and it allows you to create a video with many tools. Tools provided are text, picture uploading, pictographs, doodling, voice recording and much more. I found this to be easier to use than other options and great for kids!

Make simple popsicle stick catapults for fun play at home. Popsicle stick catapults are a great STEM activity and boredom buster on bad weather days!

Make simple popsicle stick catapults. Ideas that were used for our project based learning project.

The website, "Little Bins for Little Hands" is a website that has different STEM projects and Project Based Learning projects for teachers to use in the classroom. This website shows the project of building a catapult out of popsicle sticks and rubber bands. It provides pictures, videos, steps to build one. It then provides a like to different physic activities that can be taught in the classroom using project based learning.

Histography is an impressive interactive timeline spanning today through the beginning of recorded history. The timeline is divided into fifteen categories including war, politics, discoveries, inventions, and art. To explore the timeline select one of the categories listed on the Histography website then adjust the timeline slider to see events from the range of dates that you've selected. After choosing a category and date range you can click on dots in the timeline to see pop-up boxes containing event titles, representative pictures, and a link to a Wikipedia page about the event.

A free website where teachers can create a website for their students and parents. Students can also make an account for free and can use this source to keep track of calendars and assignments.

Free classroom website generator for teachers that helps you manage your class and keep students up to date on information

This website has good tutorial that has step by step instructions on how to make a YouTube video. It includes what equipment to choose, ideas, how to make the video, how to edit the video, and how to upload and promote your video.