Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler
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12/28/2010 9:15 AM
Finding
images on the internet for classroom use has been a problem
problem for many educators, for reasons such as
copyright privileges, inappropriateness, etc.
While there are a number of paid solutions for finding images such as Nettrekker or Discovery Streaming, there are a number of free alternatives that work nicely as well.
However,
keep in mind that most of the sites listed below do not have built-in
filters for images. These image search engines should be used either by
educators (adults assisting students) or go in hand in hand with a school
district filtering solution and Acceptable Use Policy.
- Pics4Learning - Very popular site to find free, safe-to-use images for teachers and students.
- Cyclo.ps - Search engine that searches the most popular free image engines around and provides one-stop shopping.
- School Clip Art - Great site for free school clip art.
- Ookaboo - Creative commons (free) site for finding great images for class work.
- Picsearch - Excellent image search engine, if used with a district's filtering solution.
- Veezzle - Wonderful free stock photo search engine.
- Google Swirl - Innovative way to search for images and see their relationships with each other (use with Google Safe Search enabled).
- Free Photo Bank - Easy way to find creative common images.
- Open Clip Art - Great way to find free clip art.
- Find Icons - Nice site for free icons.
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 at dkapuler@gmail.com and read his blog at cyber-kap.blogspot.com
11 comment(s) so far...
Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler
Thanks! This is exactly what the teachers at our school have been searching for. This is an excellent resource and starting point!
By vera on
1/7/2011 2:34 AM
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Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler
This was very useful. The Google Swirl and several others are just plain great!
By Lee Nicholson on
1/7/2011 5:07 AM
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Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler
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Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler
I am always looking for clipart and images for free. Some of these sites I have not seen before. Thanks
By DestinFishingCharters on
12/29/2010 8:55 AM
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Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler
Thanks! As an ESL teacher, I'm always looking for pictures and videos to help my students connect with and understand content area concepts.
By Steven Anderson on
1/10/2011 3:55 AM
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Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler
I am looking forward to viewing the sites. Thanks!
By Mavis Kingbird on
1/28/2011 7:58 AM
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1/16/2011 5:57 AM
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Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler
You might also want to check out http://compfight.com - it searches flickr for creative commons licensed images by tag. My students use it a lot.
By Glenn on
1/28/2011 3:00 PM
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Another site I'd like to recommend: http://ideas.wisconsin.edu/imageideas.cfm
Imageide@s offers high-quality, copyright-free digital images for Wisconsin educators. All of the images in the imageide@s repository (over 7,000 and growing) are free for educators world-wide to use within their classrooms. Our images use the Creative Commons licensing in this category: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike. Attributions should read: Image(s) provided by imageide@s: http://ideas.wisconsin.edu/
By Roxann Nys on
1/21/2011 2:03 AM
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Top 10 Sites for Images and Clip Art by David Kapuler
These are great sites. A couple others to include are:
1. Stock.xchng (http://sxc.hu/) Sign up for a username and password to use many high quality photographs for free. Some have more restrictions for use than others.
2. Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) Includes free images and media.
By Jessica C. on
1/21/2011 6:27 AM
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