If I had a penny for every time I "found" a new website that would be great for a teacher to use, I'd be a bazillionaire! With just a little bit of reading up on educational news sites, I found the PC site to search for "free to use" images. They may be copy-righted, but they are free for anyone to use. The site is called Wylio and it acts like a search engine for free pictures. The picture below is an example of one of the images in their database. It's a great resource for students to use when they need images for their multimedia presentations.
Using technology comes easily to students, but do they really know how they should be using technology in today's world. Let me ask you this: how many of you have been in the movie theatre only to be blinded by someone's cell phone screen at some point during the movie? We are so digitally connected that we don't even think of how we are going about using and abusing technology. Wylio is a great site to reinforce respecting other people's work and giving credit where credit is due. Find out more about Digital Citizenship (norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use), including lesson plans, on the website Digital Citizenship Education. Another great source of information on the nine elements of Digital Citizenship and lesson ideas is Mike Ribble's website on Digital Citizenship.
Image found using Wylio. (Free) aAccount creation needed- linked to Google.
I joined Wylio just to see how it worked. To try it out, I looked up -- guess what? You got it. I looked up Corgi Dogs. Wylio has thousands--and obviously a Corgi is also some kind of car. Anyway, of the hundreds of pictures I looked at none came close to looking like Socs. I guess his coloring is relatively striking and not too common. There were none just like him, none at all... Very interesting! I'll look up some more photos on another subject soon and try to embed in my WIKI once that's up and running
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