I must confess: I didn't actually find this cool stuff in my Google Reader; I found it in my Twitter Feed, but I have since added the blog, Making Teachers Nerdy (http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/) to my RSS feed and am excited about receiving updates! Actually, believe it or not, I was not too jazzed with what I was finding in the good 'ole Reader, and decided to check out some of my stored 'favorite' tweets that I had been too busy to look at earlier. Nothing like an approaching deadline to get me back on track, right? The author of a current denizen in my reader, Mr. Byrne--author of Free Technology for Teachers, tweeted "best places to find public domain images" which led me to a super resourceful blog post by Mrs. Smoke that contains links to several sites providing images and music in the public domain. I've also added the blog post and some of the links on it to our group Diigo account because I think it's just so dandy. Flickr Creative Commons searches are awesome, but if your students don't have an account, you can run into a snag. I've pondered recently the logisitics of allowing a class full of kids to use my account and it just seems like a hassle. The sites listed on Mrs. Smoke's blog don't require an account, so problem solved. (I'm saying that quite a bit lately. Yay!!) Plus, all the pics I saw were student friendly. My intent was to include several cool pics I found so that you could see the quality and artistic touch that they have. However, I can't figure out how to get a picture to go anywhere but the top of my post, so I failed on that one, but hopefully you'll check them out on your own. As a final note, I definitely recommend following the blogs I've mentioned here.Photo Credit:
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Hi Sherelle! I'm so glad you like Making Teachers Nerdy, and I do hope these resources help out your classroom projects. To get more images in your post, you could try to embed an animoto video. It's a great tool and a blast to use. Be sure to sign up under "education" at the bottom of their webpage to have access to all their features.
ReplyDeleteI totally LOVE Mrs.Smoke!! Just wait until you get started with Thing 18 and you sign up for Plurk. Mrs.Smoke is on Plurk (similar to Twitter) and a member of my PLN. She's fabulous and super nice as well. I absolutely love her blog. She amazes me with all of the resources she's able to put together, too.
ReplyDeleteI have not seen Mrs. Smoke yet but this sounds like a pretty neat site. I will but sure and find her when i get to Thing 18.
ReplyDeleteHope you are having a good summer.
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