Images4Education and EVO-Special Guest: Carla Arena

Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions:

Gl.am links for today's show: http://gl.am/2tOeQ

http://explorations.bloxi.jp/ (Carla Arena: Award-winning Teacher Blog for Edublog Awards 2008)
http://collablogatorium.blogspot.com/ (Carla Arena: Further Exploration Blog)
http://images4education.pbworks.com/FrontPage (Home Page for Images4Education course wiki-6-week session on exploring images for 21st century classroom-how images can be used in educational settings for photo sharing, storytelling, slideshows and comics creation, as well as understand how Creative Commons licensing can be beneficial for classroom use)
http://images4education.ning.com/ (Companion Ning site for Images4Education class where participants supported each other and shared their creations, lesson plans, etc.)
http://groups.diigo.com/groups/images4education (Bookmarks shared on Diigo for Images4Education)
http://evosessions.pbwiki.com/FrontPage  (Electronic Village Online Home Page)
http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/TESOL/EVOL/portal.htm  (The CALL Interest Section of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL) offers language teachers world-wide the opportunity to participate in the Electronic Village Online (EVO), a professional development project and virtual extension of the TESOL Convention. The intended audience for this project includes both TESOL convention-goers and those who can participate only virtually.
http://images4education-ning.pbworks.com/(follow up activities after the session was formally over)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/schoolsaroundtheglobe/(Flickr group we just started and will use for a collaborative international project suggested by one of the members of our session)
http://www.flickr.com/groups/images4education/ (Images4Education Flickr group)
http://www.slideshare.net/carlaarena/images4education (slides of talk)
http://brazilbridges.pbworks.com/Cybersurfing-with-Young-Learners

Image sources
http://www.compfight.com/ (Flickr images search using Creative Commons and safe search options)
http://www.sxc.hu/ (Stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site)
http://www.kartoo.com   (Kartoo image search engine)
http://hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart  (UVIC's Language Teaching Clipart Library)
http://photobucket.com/groupsearch/Featured/?type=category (Can create group albums and upload photos to share with others--thousands of albums/photos available to search)
http://www.photoxpress.com/ (free stock images available for download)
http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2008/06/28/finding-and-adding-creative-commons-images-to-your-blog-posts/ (Sue Waters: Finding and Adding Creative Commons Images to your Blog Posts)
http://sites.google.com/site/freetoolsoutthewazoo/copyright-friendly-images (Rushton Hurley: Links to copyright-friendly images)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page  (Wikimedia Commons: database of 4,568,004 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute).
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pictures_and_images (Wikimedia Commons Pictures and Images)
http://www.diigo.com/list/pgeorge/photo-sites_cr20_phoenix(Peggy George: Compilation of photo creation sites as example of Diigo lists and webslides)
http://www.shambles.net/pages/school/clipart/ (Chris Smith/Shamblesguru: Compilation of photos, images, clipart and graphics)
http://www.pics4learning.com/ (Pics4Learning: a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers)

Editing images
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/services/28-online-photo-editing-websites-to-have-fun-with/
http://www.photobie.com/index.php (A free software for photo editing, scrapbooking, animation, screen capture and more-requires download)