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Pictures at the Royal Society.  Some good ones for botany & biology at least. They expect payment for most uses but do allow some free use but you must apply to them.

"Meta-data contains a great deal of information, and when gathered together it forms a startlingly clear picture of the person it comes from. A point that Professor César Hidalgo and graduate students Daniel Smilkov and Deepak Jagdish of MIT are trying to get across. They have created a new program called Immersion. It works by signing you into your Gmail account and collecting only the meta-data from your account usage history. From there you can get a picture of your emailing habits from that single account, and you will be shocked at what you see."

Whirlwind tour through Social Media in pictures. Killer quote is that in late 2010 & 2011, the world went mobile.

copyright-friendly photos for students and teachers to use. Not creative commons licenced - at least the ones I viewed - ordered into categories and topics. Easy to use and the citation to be used is included with each picture

Short description of the components of a Mooc.

Moodle doesn't encourage good course design. Interesting post by James Clay and it gives me 2 thoughts.  Should we change the way we start people off on Moodle so course design comes first and then some mechanics.  The other thought is could we write a wizard (or some such thing) that leads people through the big picture design of their course and then helps them populate it with appropriate elements?

Some students took pictures of exam papers and left them for others to see.

Some Twitter stats in pictures.

Great little app that lets you grap the license and other details from a flickr image.  Intended to be used when you link to an image and ensure you attribute it correctly. "With ImageCodr.org, there is no need to do all this manually, you simply enter in the URL of the picture page (as seen in your browser) you are interested in and ImageCodr.org will generate the ready to use HTML code. It will also display a brief and easy license summary, so you don't get in legal trouble because you missed something."

Study from which the previous article drew some of its data. "The study's objectives are to build a picture of the overall character and quality of the first year experience..."

Critique of the Khan Academy model inasmuch as who has told the teachers what to do with the freed up class time?

Making notes in pictures - graphic recording, doodling, what you will.

Fun infographic which highlights in a single sentence for each tool how different social media address the subject of coffee drinking

Educational transformation / innovation group

Free image library for educational purposes - has an index of topics on the home page

Some good advice on citing images.

"And yes, of course, there should be a digital storytelling App. But it won't be easy to design because the hardest thing for people to learn isn't technique, it is confidence."