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Great photos for use for educational presentations, inc iPad pics and close ups of dictionary definitions for educational words, e.g. Teach, learning etc etc.

"The BBC's picture editor Phil Coomes has a long, excellent feature on the open education photography classes offered by Jonathan Worth and Matt Johnston through Coventry University. The course is open to anyone in the world, via webcast, and runs with up to 35,000 students. The class focuses not just on technique, but on the role of photographers in the 21st century, when everyone has a cameraphone, and when controlling copies of photos on the net is an impossibility."

Shot over a period of 18 months, Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti's project Toy Stories compiles photos of children from around the world with their prized possesions-their toys. Galimberti explores the universality of being a kid amidst the diversity of the countless corners of the world; saying, "at their age, they are pretty all much the same; they just want to play."

App for sharing photos/videos from iPad/iPod to computers or other devices...

13 Ways to print Instagram photos - some really neat ideas here...

Great ideas to use visual language with photos in the classroom

Between April 20 and July 15, 2010, a generally accepted estimate of nearly 5 million barrels (200 million gallons) of crude oil emerged from the wellhead drilled into the seafloor by BP from the now-destroyed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Now that the flow of oil has been stopped, the impact of all the spilled oil and natural gas is still being measured. The current moratorium on deep water remains in place as reports from varying scientific groups are at odds about the extent of the remaining oil, and some fishing restrictions have already been lifted. As BP finalizes its work in killing the well, here is a collection of photos from around the Gulf of Mexico over the past couple of months, as all of those affected enter the next phase of this event. (42 photos total)

another photo editing tool

Take photos with your iPod or iPhone -- and upload to your Dropbox account.  If you then have your Dropbox account to automatically set to sync with your laptop, then in the classroom you can take photos of kids' work you want to highlight to the whole class and quickly have it ready to be displayed on your IWB/projector screen (assuming your laptop is plugged into your projector/IWB).

13,000 photos from all over the world - great resources

turns any photo into a high res photo so you can zoom into pieces

Add a mustache to a photo - MOvember is coming!

Slideshow of beautiful black & white photos of people like Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Chief Seattle, Anne Frank, etc. wtih quotes of theirs re peace

Cool story about someone finding someone else's roll of film and the journey that ensued

A way of viewing your Instagram photos online

Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting.

Here are the Daily Shoot ideas of what to take a photo of each day.

Nice set of images in this photostream of kids for presentations.

Photos of the children in action in Reggio Emelia

Could be a nice ebook for our middle and high school students