Blinging+a+Blog

How To Bling Your Blog - TCEA 2010
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 * 1) Cooltext - Bling your blog with cool fonts
 * 2) Shelfari - Bling your blog with a bookshelf!
 * 3) iPiccy - Bling your blog with photo effects!
 * 4) Make Beliefs Comix - Bling your blog with comic strips!
 * 5) Audio WidgetBox - Bling your blog with audio!
 * 6) Poll WidgetBox - Bling your blog with polls!
 * 7) bling on the blog - Bling your blog with custom backgrounds
 * 8) Smilebox - Create scrapbooks, slide shows, postcards, and more
 * 9)  VoiceThread - Create a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways
 * 10) [|Wordle.net - Bling your blog with word clouds!]
 * 11) [|Animoto.com - Bling your blog with video!]
 * 12) [|Big Huge Labs - Bling your blog with even more photo effects!]
 * 13) [|PretzelFont - Bling your blog with pretzels!]
 * 14) [|Spell with Flickr - Bling your blog with letters from Flickr's One Letter Pool!]

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Image Libraries
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 * [|Pics4Learning] - copyright friendly image library for teachers and students
 * [|FreeFoto] - "largest collection of free photographs on the Internet"
 * [|Library of Congress American Memory]- links to free historical images, maps, and documents, etc.
 * [|Creative Commons]- search services provided by other independent organizations for works which can be modified [[file:telladigitalstory/Finding Images with Creative Commons.pdf|Finding Images with Creative Commons.pdf]] ** //Revised 8-19-2010// **
 * [|Morgue File] provides free photos with license to remix. The [|Morgue File] photo collection contains thousands of images that anyone can use for free in academic or commercial presentations. The image collection can be searched by subject category, image size, color, or rating.
 * William Vann's [|EduPic Graphical Resource] provides free photographs and drawings for teachers and students to use in their classrooms. Mr. Vann is an amateur photograph (a good one at that) and a teacher. Mr. Vann gives permission to teachers and students to use the images in any manner needed for instructional and learning purposes.
 * [|The World Images Kiosk] hosted by [|San Jose State University]offers more than 75,000 images that teachers and students can use in their academic projects. All of the images can be used under a Creative Commons license that requires you to give proper attribution when necessary. You can find images by using the search box or you can browse through more than 800 portfolios and groups organized by subject.
 * [|ImageBase] is a personal project of professional photographer [|David Niblack]. [|ImageBase] contains more than one hundred pages of images that Mr. Niblack has released for free reuse and redistribution. In fact, the top of the[|ImageBase] site says "treat like public domain."
 * [|Photos 8] is a great place to find thousands of images that are in the public domain. These images can be used in any way that you and your students see fit. There are twenty-two categories of images of which the largest collections are of animals, birds, and sunsets.
 * [|Animal Photos] is a great source of Creative Commons licensed photos of animals. All of the photos are categorized by animal. Each image indicates the type of Creative Commons license associated with the picture.[|Animal Photos] also offers advice on giving attribution for each photo.
 * [|Wylio] is an image search engine designed to help bloggers and others quickly find, cite, and use Creative Commons licensed images. [|Wylio] results only return images that are listed with a Creative Commons license.[|Wylio] makes it easy to give proper attribution to the creator of the image by providing you with html code that includes attribution. All you have to do is copy the code and paste it into your blog post or webpage.