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If a picture is worth a thousand words, a Thinglink image may be worth 1000 pictures.  Thinglink is a great FREE tool that enables one to create dynamic interactive images that have embedded hyperlinks to other images, wikipedia articles, videos, websites, audio recordings, or almost anything else.  The image can then be embedded in your website or Haiku class, projected etc.  Easy to use.

Pica bay is another good source for copyright-friendly images to use in media projects. via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation

Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Good Places for Students to Find Public Domain Images via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation

Read about the large collection of public domain images made available through a partnership between Google and Life magazine. via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation

With 100 specialized search engines for academic research listed, you are certain to find some new ones.   Some of my favorites are included in this list.  The list is organized into helpful catagories by subject or discipline.   One of my favorites for History is listed here, the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.  The collection has over 30,000 images, searchable by keyword.

Take a virtual field trip to art museums around the world. Get "up close and personal" with works of art. High-resolution images allow users to zoom in to see individual brush strokes. Rich information is included. An education section includes lesson plans and ideas for how to use the site in the classroom.

Love this! This is one of my favorites. Perfect for the interactive whiteboard.

Via Free Technology for Teachers and Richard Byrne: We know that using nonlinguistic representations for new vocabulary supports student learning. In this post, edtech Blogger Richard Byrne provides quick reviews of five free online dictionaries and thesauri that will help teachers and students find images to connect to words and their definitions.

A math teacher demonstrates how he and his students use the web tool, pad let, to collaborate on and assess math tasks in a lesson. Padlet is a free tool that allows users to upload notes , images, and more to a common online bulletin board or workspace.

Florida's "Digital Educator" program's extensive clearinghouse of resources indexed by subject and topic.

These are great. I love the collection of copyright free images, clip art, presentation assists, etc. I met these guys this week at FETC.