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15 Sites for Finding Images and Clip Art for Education

Apr 17

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A while back I did a top 10 sites for finding images and clip art for education. However, a lot of things have changed since then and a few of those sites no longer exist. A handful of new and exciting sites have been developed for education for finding images, which led me to creating a new list. Keep in mind, when searching for images for students it is always a good idea to have adult supervision/filtering solution. The following list is in alphabetical order.



15 Sites for Finding Images and Clip Art for Education



1.3D Toad- A innovative site with interactive 360-degree rotatable images.

2.Behold- A nice search engine to use with adult supervision for finding images on Flickr.

3.Find Icons- A great site for finding free icons to use in the classroom.

4.FreeFoto- A wonderful site for 1000s of free photos that can be used by students.

5.FreePhotoBank- A excellent site for free stock photos.

6.Google Images- A great way to search for images as long as the safe search filter is turned on.

7.humanline- A new site for teachers and students for free images for art, history, science, etc.

8.ookaboo- A great way to search for free stock photos on a wide variety of subjects.

9.OpenClipArt- A nice site for free clip art.

10.Pics4Learning- One of the most popular image sites for finding images for education.

11.Picsearch- A excellent place for finding images as long as being used with adult supervision.

12.School Clip Art- Doesn't get much better then this for free clip art for students and teachers.

13.Sprixi- A great way to search for images with adult supervision.

14.Veezzle- A free stock photo search engine and community.

15.Visual Dictionary- Not only a great place to find educational photos, but also offers descriptions and more.

To view my Images for Education board on Pinterest, click here.

Commen Sense Media for Parents

Parenting in the Digital Age
There's no question that online tools and new technology greatly benefit our kids' lives. But parenting in the digital age brings a whole new set of challenges. Many of our editors have lived through these challenges - and survived to tell the tale! Read about their experiences to see how they fared - and get useful tips for managing your kids' media.

5 Ways to Help Kids Find BalanceKids these days have lots of high-tech skills, but do they have real-world abilities? Get Common Sense advice for making sure your kids get the best of both worlds.

Breaking Your Mom's Rules Finding our own parenting style faces an extra hurdle because the media landscape we grew up in was so incredibly different from our kids' experience today. See how some fellow parents have interpreted the examples they grew up with.

Kids Connected CultureWe may think of our kids' online, mobile, and technological activities as "digital life," but to them, it's just life. Teach kids the skills they need to use technology wisely and well.

Back Away from the Cell Phone, Parents!Next time you go to text your kid or check her Facebook page, think about this: are you crossing the line from caring to intruding? Tech-assisted parenting can be great - in moderation. Here's how to stay on the "cool" side of the cell phone.
More Advice on This Topic:
3 Rules Your Kids May be Breaking Online
How to Choose Great Video Games
When Texting Turns to Torment

Best Bets in Books for all Ages - January

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/new/months-best-bets-books?utm_source=newsletter01.12.12&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=feature2
As kids get older, they develop their own tastes and are always looking for something new. So we're starting a new monthly feature to highlight a few books for different ages -- some exceptional titles that could be the perfect thing to perk your kid's interest, get your reader hooked on a new author, or rediscover an old favorite. Here are our picks for January:
An outstanding picture book for kids 6 and up is Crouching Tiger, the latest by Ying Chang Compestine, author of the middle-grade novel Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party. A young Chinese-American boy gains new respect for his heritage when his grandfather, visiting from China, teaches him tai chi and gives him an important role in the Chinese New Year parade. Superb illustrations by Yan Nascimbene underscore the boy's emotional journey from resistance to pride.
For middle graders, there's Anne Nesbet's The Cabinet of Earths, a fantasy adventure that finds an American girl and her brother adjusting to their new life in Paris when they run into a heap of weirdness and danger -- and magic.
For teens, there's the unusual high school romance post mortem in Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler (who also wrote the A Series of Unfortunate Events series as Lemony Snicket). In this new novel, a girl sends her boyfriend a box filled with mementos from their relationship that help explain why they fell in love ... and why they fell apart.

The School Library Link May Newsletter

The May issue of the Library Link includes information about ebooks and the importance of developing a love of reading in your child.

http://www.theschoollibrarylink.com/storage/thelink_vol2_issue7_final.pdf

The School Library Link March Newsletter

The School Library Link offers parents a great deal of information on topics for their children involving technology and information access.

http://www.theschoollibrarylink.com/storage/thelink_vol2_issue6_final.pdf

The School Library Link February Newsletter

This issue of The School Library Link has information about copyright and the creative commons copyright.

English Edition

http://www.theschoollibrarylink.com/storage/thelink_vol2_issue5_final1.pdf

Spanish Edition

http://www.theschoollibrarylink.com/storage/thelink_vol2_issue5_spanish.pdf

Top 10 Sites for Educational Resources

Top 10 Sites for Educational Resources by David Kapuler

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There are a ton of resources for educators and students around the web, but it would be very time consuming wading through the offerings to find what suits you. So I've created a list of my picks for best educational resources. However, that doesn't mean there aren't others also qualified to be listed. I'd love to hear feedback on which sites you feel have educational value so that we can create an even better repository of websites!

1. Thinkfinity - One of the most popular educational resource sites on the web. Created by Verizon Foundation with 1000s of lesson plans, interactive tools, etc.
   
2. Teachers.net - A wonderful site with lesson plans created by teachers for teachers. A ton of classroom projects in all subjects and grade levels can be found here too.
3. Edhelper - A great collection of educational resources on all subject areas. This is a paid service for a low cost which can be purchased in teacher packs of five as well.
4. Shmoop - One of my favorite sites for education. A very fun and friendly site with a variety of resources such as links, lesson plans, guides, etc.
5. teAchnology - 1000s of lesson plans can be found here as well as other resources on holidays, events, etc.
6. Super Teacher Worksheets - A massive list of free printable worksheets for teachers on a number of subject areas.
7. Educational World - A great site with lesson plans and other materials for teachers.
8. TeachAde - A social network designed for educators with lots of free educational materials and a beautiful user interface.
9. Cybraryman - An excellent site with multiple links and resources for educators and students.
   
10. FREE - Free Resources for Educational Excellence. This site has it all -- lessons, videos, documents and more.

David Kapuler is an educational consultant with more than 10 years of experience working in the K-12 environment. For more information about his work, contact him atdkapuler@gmail.com and read his blog at cyber-kap.blogspot.com

Best Project Based Learning Sites

Top 7 Project Based Learning Sites
by Grant Zimmerman

Helpful Project Based Learning Tools

Sometimes readers want us to cut to the chase and just point them in the right direction. This looks to be one of those important times. I looked back over the past couple years’ worth of my blogs for Digital Learning Environments and –thankfully—found what I expected. My conversations elucidate the passion I have for thinking and learning in an environment that is active, collaborative, and authentic. It does me no good learning about the physics of hammering a nail into a pine board unless I find myself needing to do just that—hammer a nail. There is way too much involved in swinging a hammer to talk about here, but as we begin finding a way to shortcut the chase, you have to swing a hammer repeatedly and with purpose in order to understand how it works. Then again you could just rent an air compressor and really cut to the chase.

The Magic and Rigor of Paideia from Grant Zimmerman on Vimeo.

Two ideas take shape here. First, something that seems really easy, like hammering a nail, takes more practice and perseverance that it looks like it should on the surface. What looks easy often isn’t. Second, learn from yourself and your colleagues. Because the nail rockets off the edge of the hammer’s head or you miss it completely doesn’t compel you to give up and stop trying. You keep trying till you get it right. After all, you are trying to secure two boards to each other. Practice with thought and motivation.

Jumping back to my passion for thinking and learning, I have found over my many years working with students of all ages—from pre-school to adults—we want to think and learn in authentic, active environments and work with other people at the same time. The same conditions exist whether the class is face-to-face or online. The more complex the assignment the more authentic, active, and collaborative it should be. So as we plan intellectual, complex assignments, we should also be planning how the students will work as a team. We can teach collaborative skills just as we can teach reading skills. One effective way to teach the skills of teamwork is to have a group of students revise an already prepared assignment. The students rewrite an essay, a script, PPT, video, text message, dialogue, etc. using a guiding protocol that helps with the content. Remember the focus is placing the students in a collaborative setting in which the focus of the lesson is to collaborate. Perhaps, the content should even be about why collaboration is important and what is necessary to make a team work successfully.

Perhaps for us teachers and administrators, we might schedule some faculty meetings or professional development days learning how to build high quality, authentic, collaborative units in which the students build products or present performances that show what they have learned? Is this possible?

PBL Caveat

We have to coach, guide, push, teach, direct, suggest, and even demand actions from our students. Some students will require more and different guidance than others. Project Based Learning does not mean turning the students loose to learn on their own. The opposite actions hold more truth. These top 7 web sites about Project Based Learning will interest you, teach you, and maybe—not only answer some of your questions—but spark you into asking your own important questions.

PBL-Online.org, http://pbl-online.org

· Once registered search for units or create your own.

Project Based Learning Checklists, http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/index.shtml

· Create your own PBL rubrics that define high quality work and collaboration.

Edutopia, http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning

· Useful site with videos, blogs, and information

Learn NC, http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4753

·The premier location for online coursework and classes.

Buck Institute ,http://www.bie.org/index.php/site/PBL/overview_pbl/

·One of the granddaddy’s of PBL. Good place for protocols to help in planning.

National Paideia Center, http://www.paideia.org

· Originators and founding creators of the Paideia Project. The Paideia Project is a unit of study that leads to a student production or performance of real value to an audience outside the classroom. It is designed specifically to create relevant classroom work that connects the standardized curriculum to the larger world in which your students live. Includes the Paideia Seminar.

Internet4Classrooms, http://www.internet4classrooms.com/project.htm

· Explanations and links to tried and tested web sites for students. An indispensible collection when you are trying to cut to the chase.

Grant Zimmerman is the Senior Education Consultant withKnowledge Network Solutions—Leaders in Technology Integration in Schools. Grant is also on the faculty of The National Paideia Center at the University of North Carolina. He leads educators in Professional Development sessions on the Paideia Seminar, the Paideia Project, and Technology Integration. You can reach Grant atgzimmerman@northcarolina.edu.

Top 10 Ways 21st Century Schools Can Protect Themselves from Copyright Violation

Educators as well as students must have a clear understanding of copyright regulations so that not only can they avoid committing violations themselves, they can also protect their own work from being used out of context unlawfully. Here are some of the chief ways that 21st-century schools, educators, and students can safeguard themselves.

10. Be mindful that copyright regulations apply to various media.“As a passive reminder that copyright laws apply to virtually all copying,” says expert on copyright law and author Carol Simpson, “get stickers similar to those that you find on copy machines and put them on all equipment capable of making copies.”

9. When using video, get permission or licenses. “One of the most frequent causes of cease-and-desist letters to schools is showing entertainment films that are not tied to the curriculum,” Simpson says. “Such showings require permission from the copyright owner or payment of royalties because they are nonexempt public performances.”

8. If it’s a consumable— that is, something that is destroyed or altered by being used for its intended purpose (and thus is intended for a single use only)— don’t copy it. Schools often get in trouble when teachers make photocopies of tear-out sheets in student handbooks.

7. Lead by example. Instructors have to cite the sources of the materials they use in handouts and be sure they have the necessary permissions when creating course packets, in order to model proper behavior for students.

6. Just because it’s easily accessible doesn’t mean you can use it freely. Material on the Internet is not exempt from copyright policies.

5. Student copyright should not be overlooked. Schools should put the same effort into protecting students’ work that they do into not committing violations with more-commercial resources, such as textbooks and entertainment.

4. Unpublished work requires citation. Even if work has not been formally published, it still has to be cited when referenced in other work.

3. Utilize your resources. Use software programs that check the originality of students’ work, such as Turnitin.

2. Policies must be in place. Without the proper policies and procedures for punishing copyright offenses in position, the whole concept of copyright becomes moot. Educators and students alike have to understand copyright policy and the ramifications of violating it.

1. Teach students the importance of academic honesty. If students understand the fundamentals of academic integrity, including the value of producing original work, obeying copyright policies will become second nature to them.

—Renee Bangerter is a professor of English at Saddleback College,
Mission Viejo, CA.

The School Library Link December 2010

Learn about Digital Literacy and how parents can help students learn how to navigate through the vast amounts of digital information available.

http://www.theschoollibrarylink.com/storage/thelink_vol2_issue4_final.pdf