PicLits

According to M.T. Christel, "To foster deep student engagement with images and their analysis, students can easily use the PicLit website, which provides a treasure trove of preselected images to examine for visual composition, emotional appeal and narrative potential. "  The site is like a meme generator but the pictures selected do not beg sarcastic comment but rather have high end aesthetic value.  Your students can select a picture and then drag and drop words or for older students select free-style  and type on there own.  The pictures to me, beg poetry.  See some student examples below.

To see the website click here.  For a 4 minute demo watch the video below.

Getty Images

Getty Images now has over 40  million images available for non-commercial use.  The image below shows how the image looks when embedded.  As a track and field coach, I had to search the images for track and field.  I like the fact that the image is  attributed with the the site I got the image from and the author.  Also many of the images are from very current events, so if you are teaching a course that deals with that you might want to start off your class with these images.  Today had images of the aftermath of the Mexican earthquake.  To see the website click here.  Most teachers are worried about plagiarism in their students writing but are not as fussy about the images they use.  They should be.  They should make sure the pictures are creative commons or take a look at another post I made about Photos For Class by clicking here. 

Embed from Getty Images

History Pin

I posted about this website on May 21 2013.  Click here to see the post.  The site has updated its site with new features and a new design.  You can now create a "collection" of pins.  To see the site click here and to see some examples of collections click here.  

Bad Math Flickr

Many of these pictures could be used for starters in your math class as a discussion.  As this is a British site many of the prices are in British Pounds.  One pound is 100 pence.

Buy one as it is cheaper.  To check out this site,  click here.