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Try Wikimedia Commons for millions of free files

Wikimedia Commons permits the use of over 10 million media files. This media file (images, sounds, and video clips) repository  allows accessibility to public domain and freely-licensed educational media content. Great for budget challenged teachers across the globe. Locate media by topic, location, type, author, license and by source.

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Another source of legal images – FlickrCC

FlickrCC, Flickr Creative Commons, is a tool that searches Creative Commons images from the Flickr site itself. This means that you can bypass the Flickr advanced search option. The display is very appealing to the eye.  It displays image thumbnails,  attribution information and a text definition.  A full image editor that can be instantly accessed …

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A quick but fun task, create an Ecard with “someeecards”

If you need a warm up activity or an end-of-week reward activity try someecards to allow the students to create their own card.  The focus on this lesson can be satire or factual information based on the abilities of your students.  You may want to use these as introductory brain teasers or language models for …

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Free, fully online literacy courses

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This site is a must for consideration of ESL or S(Spanish)SL instructors or students who wish to have an independent learning resource.  U.S.A. Learns offers full virtual courses that can be tailored by the student. There are three levels offered.  Teachers should look into the course offerings before taking their students to this site.  It …

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100 Questions for Halloween

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Sean Banville has recently provided a list of 100 questions that can be used for teaching purposes when the subject of Halloween is upon us – which is now!  the questions can be downloaded in PDF format or copied directly from his website. BloggersWordlESL has compiled a whole series of  Halloween worksheets. This image of …

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ImageChef when making images quick when fun is the main factor!

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Image chef is a “cool” resource that allows students to easily create all types of images for use in their projects or assignments at school.  Students open a free account and then are able to create the following: Wanted Poster, text on candy hearts, wet cement, license plates, cards, traffic signs and much more.  Image …

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Need image an optimization tool?

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Click the Photo Editor link above This opens the full Pixlr editor or simply surf to http://pixlr.com/editor

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TESL Ontario presentation – Quick Dev Tools

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FAA – Quick Development Tools For Materials Developers John Allan – edtechisus The free, Quick Development Tools Block houses 18 development tools that provide functions from multimedia editing to screen capturing. This demonstration provides an overview of these resources. This resource is useful for those who simply cannot afford multimedia development tools but require a …

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Nik’s Wall o’ Infographics!

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Thanks to Nik Peachey for putting this resource together on Pinterest

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Try Poodle for Portable Moodle (really – no Internet required)

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Poodle, Portable Moodle, claims the following on their website: Poodle runs Moodle courses without an Internet connection. Poodle mounts Moodle on portable drives (e.g. USB sticks, memory cards, HDD’s, etc). Poodle leaves no electronic fingerprint when proper shutdown procedure followed. Poodle works with a collection of included and optional portable applications. I hope to install …

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