World Press Photos

Archive of over 10,000 images. “It includes photos that have become icons, by some of the leading names in the profession.”

Creating Characters

Slideshow providing how-to and links to create online characters (avatars)

Screenjelly – What’s on your screen?

Record your computer screen along with audio to upload to your website, email, or twitter.

100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School

TIME Magazine Archives

ONLINE GRAPHS AND CHARTS

Let Me Google That For You http://lmgtfy.com/  Ever get a question that could easily be answered? Go to the URL, type in the question.  It records your question along with the links to a tiny url you can then send out.  (Funny! Humor category.)

Pixton http://pixton.com/  Make your own comics.

Jeopardy Template  http://jeopardylabs.com/build  Build a Jeopardy template online.

Viddler http://www.viddler.com/ Another place to find and post videos.

Mashups, Remixes, and Web 2.0: Playing Fast and Loose with Shakespeare

http://www.xtranormal.com

Xtra “You type something; we turn it into a movie.”  A neat way for students to create movies. (This is untested right now with a class. Let us know if you would like to try it or if we can help.)

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Life magazine photos hosted on Google and organized  by decade.

http://www.blinkx.com/

Blinx – search for videos through the blinx search engine.  We found stuff on here that a typical Google search never revealed.

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/

Many eyes – visualization tool to view any variety of data sets.  Create your own or view others. 

http://www.lovelycharts.com/

Lovely Charts – online tool to create flow charts and other graphic organizers.  Think of Inspiration software online.