Copyright Free Images

I have created some RSS feeds on my wiki to copyright free images, photos, clipart, music, sounds and icons

http://pamk.wikispaces.com/Resources+for+Images%2C+sound%2C+music%2C+icon

Copyright and Commons

A video from YouTube explaining Creative commons in Australia  –  http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=S3aZoe5VK-c

Creative Commons for searching for media  –  www.searchcreativecommons.org

An alternative – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

More resources for Interactive Whiteboards

Resources and links from EDNA – http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/schooled/school_theme_pages/pid/544

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for objects that can be used on an IWB – http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vLibrary.html

Interactive Maths – http://www.intmath.com/

Good interactive sites for use with an IWB – http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/rmc/tutorials/whiteboards.html#sites

Blogs in Schools

Here are some examples (some from Pam Thompson) of blogs being used by schools in a variety of ways:

Pam’s blog  –  http://pamthompson.edublogs.org/

Corrimal East Public School – http://www.corrimaleps.blogspot.com/

Free image manipulation software

Gimp a free image manipulation for Windows  –  http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

Comic Life

A great example of Comic Life from the PlasQ site –  Robert Fripp and Tony Levin  sharing the day-to-day stories of touring within one of the most influential prog rock bands – on King Crimson’s 40th Anniversary Tour  –  http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=11389

A reminder of how to use Comic Life in the Classroom  –  http://www.macinstruct.com/node/69

TeacherTube has a great video on Comic Life  –  http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=cc5b9f5a2aaa74da584e

Some examples of Student work from the Comic Life Community Forum  –  http://homepage.mac.com/adam_bezark/comiclife/

Creating avatars

To create an online avatar  –  http://www.reasonablyclever.com/mini

To draw an avatar/picture  –  http://www.mrpicassohead.com/

Create comics on-line for free

This site allows students to make comics on-line  –  http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

ICT Mindtools

A great site from Margaret at New Town Tasmania with tools that challenge students to engage in higher order thinking  –  http://www.mindtools.tased.edu.au/default.htm

Blogs

There is a group for bloggers both new and old at Edna.  You can join various interest groups free of charge by registering on-line, but this one has examples of blogs, blogs in the classroom, how blogs can be used etc  –  http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1862