Image Conscious
As many of you begin collecting images and clip art for your classroom websites, there are a few places you can look for unique images that can really enhance the look and feel of your sites.
The first place to look is in your own classrooms. Digital photos of your classrooms and student projects can give your websites a personal touch. You may also scan student artwork. When we work with altering images, we can edit these peices to be more functional elements of your websites.
Another place to look is Wikimedia. This site comes from the same people who brought you Wikipedia, but it offers various media that are open to the public for free use. The images on Wikimedia are under the classification of “public domain”, so users can publish the images with proper credit given. The best place to search for images is in the “Commons” area.
Another great source for original images is 
. You can use Fickr in a couple of ways. First of all, you could join Flickr for free and post your own images or pictures for easy access anywhere. Another useful feature of Flickr is that you can ask the actual photgrapher if you can use his/her photos for your site. I’ve done this with some blog posts and people have been very willing to share.
(Snowmen in Moscow image courtesy of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Snowmen_moscow.jpg.)
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