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Creative Commons helps you share your knowledge and creativity with the world. Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

In 2005, a group of young designers and self-proclaimed vagabonds founded this international showcase of creative work. Imagery covers many aspects of graphic design, plus art, product design, architecture, advertising and multimedia. Creative types can find interviews as well as links to resources and tutorials.

Why Creativity Now? A Conversation with Sir Ken Robinson

The CR blog extends the reach of the Creative Review magazine, dedicated to all aspects of visual communication, from advertising to digital media. Launched in 1980, the UK-based magazine has readers online in over 120 nations. The CR blog doesn't just talk about design - it makes art, as in the annual cover created from blog stories and photos.

Capture your child's voice and imagination with our creative story building tool and share them with friends and family. Encourages creativity and self expression Helps reinforce reading and writing skills A GREEN alternative to books NO ads, NO merchandising, NO external links Made with kids in mind! It's Fun and it's FREE for everyone!

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Will Hudson founded It's Nice That in 2007 and was joined by Alex Bec in 2008, with other team members coming on board later. The site publishes original work from both well-known and up-and-coming creators across a range of disciplines. The group also hosts real-life events like a one-day creative symposium, a field trip at the Rag Factory in East London, and talks on themes like digital experience and motivation.

Created by Smashing Media in Germany, this website offers treasures for artists and techies, sharing resources like new free fonts. Founded in 2006, this site speaks mainly to Web designers and developers, with posts on creative and technical themes like emotional design and responsive design. Also helpful are the coding Q&A on CSS and the Best of Coding and Best of Design sections, with thoughts on usability, mobile design and more.

Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof: Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!) Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!) Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug Tell a story Make a drawing Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

There is a new Wonder of the Day everyday!  Such a cool resource.  You could use this as a bell ringer, writing prompt, etc.  Spark some creativity and innovation!

Awesome list of visual writing prompts used by a teacher.  Very creative and engaging!

Unleash your creativity and make your digital film for free! Choose a background scene, characters, animated actions, dialog, introduction, and ending credits. Put your name as the producer and email the movie to your friends! You can also signup for free as a registered user, which gives you access to more advanced features, such as being able to save or edit the movies that you create.

great, creative writing prompts to use with students

ThinkQuest is a complete learning environment for primary and secondary schools. Think with us and unleash your creativity!

Shidonni is an imaginary world that kids create. It provides a virtual universe where kids can create their own imaginary world, play, and share games and interact with each other in a safe environment online. Kids can create their own animals or characters online and make them interactive. Their characters actually move and interact with the kids (no programming required!). They can create a world for their character, feed their character, write stories starring their characters, and play games using their character. Shidonni is an amazing way for kids to express themselves creatively. They will LOVE the interaction that this site provides.

Bring photos to life with this creative tool.

Creaza offers you an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work, both at school and in your free time.  You use the toolbox along with various fully developed thematic universes:  historical periods, fairy-tales, fantasy worlds, and current challenges, such as climate/environment. 

Artsonia is a FREE education tool offered to schools, families & communities worldwide - to help promote creativity amongst young artists! Submitting artwork to your school gallery is easy ... Provide School Information - Give us some basic information about you and your school so we can build the gallery for you. This also helps visitors find your school gallery among the thousands already participating! Submit Artwork - Upload image files directly to the Artsonia website (from a digital camera, for instance.) Your Gallery is Ready! - After a few days, your artwork will be published, and your new school gallery is ready to go!

iPad app for digital storytelling "A Novel Idea is the premier tool for plotting your story and recording bursts of inspiration. Use its simple interface to create your characters, locations, scenes, and novels and then link them together to create your story's plot. Use the Idea feature to quickly jot down your creative sparks, snap pictures and link them to your story elements. "