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Although a formal launch is planned for this weekend, Google’s Street View imagery for Israel is already online. It marks the first time Google has put street photographs online from any Middle Eastern country.
A while back I did a top 10 sites for finding images and clip art for education. However, a lot of things have changed since then and a few of those sites no longer exist. That being said a handful of new and exciting sites have been developed for education for finding images which led me to creating a new list.
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Use images for your projects that are not copyright-protected. (You should take your own photos or create your own original drawings and diagrams too). Sites below are sources of Creative Commons and public domain images. Be sure to cite all images! See the Citation Machine for guidelines.
ENIAC was originally created with the intent of calculating artillery firing tables for the Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory.
The ginormous, 25-ton computer contained 17,458 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and 5 million hand-soldered joints, producing a total power consumption of 160 kilowatts. In a single second the computer could calculate 5,000 additions, 357 multiplications, or 38 divisions. Back in the day, the calculating computer was $500,000, which totals about $6 million today, adjusted for inflation.
If you're sick of pushing Instagram photos to the site, or one of the unlucky few without a smartphone, here are three tools to bring filters to your Facebook.
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.
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As a consequence I have found a couple of good places to source good quality, free images which can be used without any copyright issues and I wanted to share these with you and show you how to use them in case you were facing the same problem. You can find the links to these sites at the end of the post.
Incredible collection of pictures defining the term "epic"
32 Interesting Images (and more) to use in the classroom
In a partnership with the Sustainable Amazon Foundation, a team from Google has taken it upon themselves to map out the endangered South American rainforest as well as collect photo data of the communities of people that live there.
Since Instagram has yet to offer an Android version of the incredibly popular photo-sharing app, Android users are always on the hunt for decent alternatives. But what about those who have neither an iPhone or an Android phone?
We’ve compiled a list of 8 alternatives to Instagram, most of which you can access from your browser, and use to add cool and interesting effects to your images at the click of a button.
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