A guide to the great places to find digital resources to use on your interactive whiteboard in the classroom. As used at the Teacher2Teacher conference, Bow Island, Alberta, March 2010

1. Teacher2Teacher Conference
Bow Island, AB March 2010
Essential Digital
Resources
Danny Nicholson
www.think­bank.com
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2. Teacher2Teacher Conference
Bow Island, AB March 2010
Danny Nicholson
Science teacher
Freelance IT trainer
www.whiteboardblog.co.uk
www.think­bank.com
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3. Teacher2Teacher Conference
Bow Island, AB March 2010
twitter.com/dannynic
danny@think­bank.com
http://delicious.com/dannynic/t2t
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5. Where can I get good images
to use on my IWB?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80434490@N00/2810636956/
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6. Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
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7. Digital Resources
Images
Video
Audio
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8. Images
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannynic/3844952307/
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9. Flickr
Photo sharing website
approx 5000 images added
per minute!
Most under creative commons
licence
http://flickr.com/creativecommons/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14113765@N00/1031531187
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10. http://www.flickr.com/commons/
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11. Flickr CC Search Tools
Third­party tools that search Flickr for
Creative Commons Images
http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/
http://www.compfight.com/
http://www.zoo­m.com/flickr­storm/
http://johnjohnston.info/flickrCC/index.php
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12. http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/the_laquila_earthquake.html
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13. http://photoeverywhere.co.uk/
http://www.mygreatworld.com/
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14. And don't forget Google Earth / Maps / Street View
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15. Search millions of historic photos:
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo
archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
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16. Wikimedia Commons
A database of 5,410,411 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Carnival_masks
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17. http://www.openphoto.net/
Open Photo
Image After http://www.imageafter.com/
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18. Tag Galaxy
A search for images, that's an IWB experience in itself.
http://www.taggalaxy.de/
also check out http://www.cooliris.com
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19. Google Image Swirl
http://image­swirl.googlelabs.com/
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20. Video
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21. You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
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22. YouTube downloaders..
http://kickyoutube.com
but ­ breaching YouTube terms and conditions...
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23. Alternatives
iTunes U
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
http://www.teachers.tv/video
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24. http://www.espresso.co.uk
Subscription service.
Cachebox ­ hosted locally
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25. http://www.cleo.net.uk/index.php
http://www.simplescience.net/
http://www.watchknow.org/
http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/02/100­video­sites­every­educator­should.html
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26. http://movieclips.com/
new. US and Canada only
(UK just added)
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27. Nasa Images (+ Videos)
http://www.nasaimages.org/
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28. Audio
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29. Freesound.org
http://soungle.com/
http://www.soundsnap.com/
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30. http://sounds.bl.uk
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31. Jamendo
http://www.jamendo.com/en/
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32. History Channel
http://www.history.com/search?search­field=speeches&asset­type=Speeches%20and%
20Audio
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33. http://www.poets.org/index.php
http://yv.wamu.org/
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34. Special Mention
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
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35. plus Wordle ­ great for text analysis
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36. http://delicious.com/dannynic/t2t
http://delicious.com/dannynic/iwb
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37. Flipchart Produced by
Danny Nicholson
Think Bank Ltd.
For IWB Training & Advice visit
www.think­bank.com
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