Microsoft+Photostory3

PC (Windows) exclusive Programmes and sites
[|Photostory 3] - A very worthwhile programme, excellent for all age learners (I have had Year 1's and 2's use this independently with success.....watch this space for an example coming soon!)  This is a screen capture only, click on website link (earlier) to download. An excellent, 6 minute video on how to use Photostory3 - worthwhile watching...... media type="youtube" key="OtB6_D_toVQ&hl=en&fs=1" height="344" width="425"

===St Mary's teachers are enjoying experimenting with the power of this easy to use programme... === Check out this example "Giant Pandas Information Report". Gavin uploaded this to **Youtube** so that it could be embedded in his classroom Wiki, unfortunately the children have chosen a few 'poor' quality pictures that have blurred and made the writing difficult to read.....remember this is a learning journey and problem solving is a bonus!

(Acknowledgement is due to Suzie Vesper for her educational software wiki from where I found these links....)
You can legally use a huge number of images available on the web. Here are a few to get you started.

Still Images
[| EduPic Graphic Resource] Designed specifically for teachers there are some excellent pictures for you to use on this site. [|YotoPhoto] This site does Creative Commons searches of other sites such as Flickr, Morguefile and Stock Xchange. [|ARCive - Images of Life on Earth] This website is trying to document in photos and in movies every living thing on earth. You can use their pictures for free for non-commercial, educational uses. [|EveryStockPhoto] This site searches many of the free Stock Photo sites (such as the ones below) and brings back results from all of them. Very useful. [|Morguefile] A searchable database of photos posted for free. Some owners of the photos ask that you let them know if you are planning to use them. [|Stock Xchng] A huge database of images that are free to use. [|Flickr] This website is a photo sharing community was a VERY large number of photos contained within. Check what licence the photographer has attached to their photo before downloading. There is a handy way of searching Flickr with [|Flickr Storm]. [|Flickr Related Tag Browser] This is a novel way to search flickr photos. Type in a search term and the results appear in the middle with other related search terms in a circle around the results. [|Image After] Not the simplist looking website but still has a number of free photos. [|Studio 25] Create an account to use these free images. Great quality. [|Fotogenik] Another very large free photo site [|ICT Teachers Photo Library] A little limited in the number of pictures but all can be used for educational purposes. [|A large list of other sites!] If you still want to find some images, you could go through some of the other sites listed on this page. [|Northumberland LEA Clipart]Free to use for education on 12 commonly used topics. [|Pics4Learning] - a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. [|Warren and Genevieve Garst Photographic Collection]- a huge number of pictures of animals from the collections of these wildlife photographers. Fair use copyright rules apply. [|De Tools of the Trade Clipart Links] Links to a number of sites containing clipart that educators can use. [| National Geographic Photo Galleries] A huge range of photos on many different topics. [|Earthalbum] A cross between Flickr and Google Map - click on a country and then get images from Flickr for that country [|New Zealand] A website about NZ with photo galleries.

Desktop Images
[|VladStudio] The lower resolution pictures on this site are free but Suzie says it's worth paying for a lifetime subscription for a whole $35 US to get the higher resolution pics. The designs are gorgeous.

[|InterfaceLift] This site has a huge bank of wallpapers and icons that you can download.

Animated Images/ GIFs
[|Free animated gifs]  A range of topics including a number of alphabet animations that can be put together to make words. [|Animation Gold] Free animations and clipart on a range of topics.

Reducing Size of Images
File size too large? Use one of these to help cut it down to size so it loads quickly [|Online Image Optimiser] Load images to this website and it will reduce the size for you.


