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Pixlr Online Digital Image Editor
This fabulous online digital image editing suite has two components, Pixlr Express and the full blown Pixlr Editor. Express is as the name suggests great for a quick edit including cropping rotating etc as well as adjustments and a range of effects. The editor is fully featured and very intuitive to use, (more so than a number of other more high profile apps).
All Right to Copy?
All Right to Copy? is a great online resource for students which explores what they can and cannot do when it comes to using the work of others.\n\n"Each of the sections in All Right to Copy? is introduced by a video where two students, Donna and Joe, are trying to put together a website for a web design competition. Along the way they confront the issues of using other peoples' material."\n\nThe information is presented in both video and text format and each section is supported by other background information as well as links. \n\nA great practical resource.
Top 5 Free Websites for Quality Copyright Free Photographs
From the Make Use Of site here are links to five websites that have copyright free photos that you can use for personal use though each have conditions or requirements attached to them. The fifth site is Flickr.
LIFE - Your World in Pictures
Seven million images of American history and culture are now available on this Life.com site. The site contains the entire archives of Life magazine and Getty Images and all of them are available free. Users can view galleries curated by the site's editors or search the library by names, dates, subjects, and locations. The archive chronicles current events, too, with daily news galleries and the addition of 3,000 new Getty photos a day.
Photos on the site are organized into five channels: news, celebrity, travel, animals, and sports. Visitors can print individual images and share them through sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious. New features of Life.com, due to roll out in the coming months, will allow users to create their own photo galleries. All the site's tools will be free.
Thirty-Seven Interesting Ways* to use your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom - Google Docs
Another of Tom Barrett's really great Google Docs that is open to others to add to. This time the focus is on the use of pocket video cameras such as the Flip video. At the time of writing the collection had grown out to 41 but no doubt this will change, maybe after you add your idea too.
NEN Gallery : Home
The UK National Education Network has a range of original resources including images, sound bites and video that are downloadable. Whilst all the resources in this Gallery have been provided freely for Educational use they ARE NOT copyright free: the copyright in the resource is retained by the resource owner and any commercial use is explicitly excluded.
Screen Australia - Digital Learning - Former Film Australia
Screen Australia’s Digital Resource Finder is a quick, convenient and easy-to-use search engine for teachers and educators. It features FREE FOR EDUCATION downloadable video clips from Screen Australia’s remarkable archive—one of the nation’s largest and most historically significant collections. Clips are matched with print-friendly two-page resource sheets that include background information and engaging student research and classroom activities written by leading teachers. Screen Australia's Digital Resource Finder makes it easy to search via curriculum, topic or keyword. Watch or download video clips featuring Australian life from the distant past to the present day. The video clips are carefully selected to cover topics including Australians at Work and War, Immigration, Indigenous Australia and Native Title, Asia-Pacific region, Australian politics, The Arts, Broadcast Media from radio to the Internet, Sustainability and Values and Citizenship. There are more than 600 resources to select from, with more added weekly.
Flickr: Picture Australia: Ourtown
Help us to capture past and present reflections of Australia and its people and add them to the nation’s richest online pictorial resource www.pictureaustralia.org. 'Picture Australia: Ourtown' group seeks your perspective on Australia’s rural and urban spaces. Assist us to keep the national collection current by taking contemporary location shots of historical images already in Picture Australia.
Flickr: Picture Australia: People, places and events
The 'Picture Australia: People, Places and Events’ group is seeking images of social, political, contemporary and or historical events of national significance. Picture Australia is a collaborative, online service managed by the National Library of Australia. It provides access to more than 1.6 million images from major collecting institutions. If you would like to contribute your Flickr images to this group, your creative product will be displayed in the nation’s visual record.
Picture Australia
Picture Australia is an Internet based service that allows you to search many significant online pictorial collections at the same time. When you do a search on Picture Australia, thumbnail images are retrieved from participating institutions on the fly and inserted into the search results. For example, a search on 'St Kilda' will retrieve images from all the agencies that hold relevant material, including the Nolan Gallery, the National Library of New Zealand, the National Archives of Australia, the State Library of Victoria, etc. In your search results you will see sets of 'thumbnail' or preview images. When you click on one of these you will go to the web site of the relevant agency to view the full-size version and you can order a high-resolution copy if required. You can move between Picture Australia and the participating agencies' web sites using the BACK button in your web browser.
Flickr: The Commons
The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer. This expanding collection draws on a number of museum based collections from around the world including the Powerhouse, Australian War Museum, and State Library of NSW.
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