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Eclectic Technology
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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Beth Dichter
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"Curiyo is a browser extension, available for Firefox and Chrome, that makes it easy to quickly find definitions, videos, pictures, and related reference materials for any word you select in your browser. When you're reading an article online and come across a word that you don't recognize or a word that you're just curious about, long-click on it and a pop-up box containing definitions, pictures, videos, and more will appear."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Curiyo looks like a great tool for students but it does require Chrome or Firefox as a browser. Quickly download the app and Curiyo is installed. As you read articles you will find that some items may have dots below them. If you click in these areas information will pop up that provide additional information and this may include information from news sources, Twitter, YouTube, Wordnik and more. You can "long-click" a word which requires you to hold your mouse button down over the word for one second and information will also pop up. By moving off the window that has popped up the information will close. Consider how this might help students researching new topics. 
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Google has many ways to search, and one way that many folks are not aware of is the small camera icon that allows you to drag in or upload an image (or paste in a URL) and have the search be for the image. This post provides additional details as well as screen shots to help you out.
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"The original Art Project counted 17 museums in nine countries and 1,000 images, almost all paintings from Western masters. Today, the Art Project includes more than 30,000 high-resolution artworks, with Street View images for 46 museums, with more on the way...The expanded Art Project embraces all sizes of institutions, specializing in art or in other types of culture..." Some of the new things you will find in the expanded Art Project include: a new tool Explore and Discover allowing you to search by period, artist, or type of artwork; Street View images of higher quality, an enhanced My Gallery and more. There is also an eduational sections available.
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A creative studio space to explore storytelling and the moving image. Download free video, images and sound and upload your own media. Create your own storyboards and share them online.
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The Oolone visual search engine allows you to search the web by viewing the resulting websites as images before visiting them.
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FlixTime videos - the coolest way to create amazing videos using your images, videos clips and music...
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hakia.com is a Web search engine that is focused on bringing quality results in all segments including Web, News, Blogs, hakia Galleries, Credible Sources, Video, and Images.
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TED Talks How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map.
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The Visual Dictionary Online - 15 themes with 6,000+ images..."see words like you have never seen them before."
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"Getty Images’ new embed tool is huge news for those of us who look for great images to use in teaching, digital storytelling and presentation. Why huge? We’re talking 35 million photographs. Up until right now, over the course of years, some folks paid serious money for the use of this art. Other folks have not."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This is amazing news for teachers and students...access to phenomenal images at no cost. Joyce Valenza provides an excellent overview of how to use the website and the background to this decision. Learn more from the post and then head over to Getty Images and have fun exploring.
Maryalice Leister's curator insight,
March 16, 2014 7:47 AM
Huge announcement for all of us who search for graphics and photos. Check it out.
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This post contains resources to "help learners visualize their learning, lesson ideas, and more!" As well as a the Working with Images SlideShare, there is A Pearl Tree of More Resources (with links to sites with images) as well as Juliana's Bookr, a book created in Pinpanpum (http://www.pimpampum.net/).
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: 15 Sites for Finding Images and Clip Art for Education
"A while back I did a top 10 sites for finding images and clip art for education. However, a lot of things have changed since then and a few of those sites no longer exist. That being said a handful of new and exciting sites have been developed for education for finding images which led me to creating a new list. *Keep in mind when searching for images for students it is always a good idea to have adult supervision/filtering solution. ** The following list is in alphabetical order..."
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Search and find unique images, rights-managed and royalty-free images, historic imagery, archival photos from museums, galleries and private collectors from all over the world. Free licenses for educational use.
Simone O'Callaghan's curator insight,
May 22, 2015 11:03 AM
This follows on from discussions we have been having this week in oline teaching and learning about copyright and image usage, so a good resource for future lectures
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Check out this slide show to learn new ways to incorporate images into your classroom!
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Confused about how to find Creative Common images through Google Search. Check out this video by Richard Byrne.
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Huge! Skitch is acquired by Evernote
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WordSift helps anyone easily sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text and you can engage in a verbal quick-capture…quickly identify important words … mark and sort different lists of words important to educators…visualization of word thesaurus…Google® searches of images and videos. Click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.
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I recently came across a blog post from the Visual Leap that I wanted to share with everybody. Visual thinking, aka.
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CK-12, a website that provides free materials for educators and students across grade levels. This link goes to a new series of physics simulations. However, if you work with students and are interested in finding great free resources that include video, text, audio, images, quizzes and interactives then it is worth your time to explore CK-12.