Virtual Library
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Art • Artcyclopedia: Collection of 125,000 great works of art. • Artlex: Art dictionary with 3,600 terms. • Museums and Museums Sites: University of Michigan School of Art and Design's comprehensive directory of museums and museum sites around the world. • Web Gallery of Art: Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 11th to mid-19th centuries. Copyright • Know Your Copy Rights: Quick reference guide for teachers that covers most copyright issues for educational purposes. • Purdue University Copyright Overview: An easy-to-understand guide to copyright issues. Copyright-free Images • Burst: Burst is a free stock photo platform with images that are both free and royalty-free. • FreeImages: Over 300,000 free stock photos to download and use. • Pexels: Pexels is a search engine for free images. You’ll find more than 5,000 photos to choose from. • Pictures4learning: Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education with thousands of free pictures. • Pixabay: Pixabay is a community of creatives sharing copyright free images and videos. All contents is safe to use without asking for permission or giving credit to the artist—even for commercial purposes. • Unsplash: Unsplash is a Canadian website that offers free images for commercial and non-commercial images without the need for permission. Countries (Information about) • CountryReports • Unicef (Information by Country) • The World Factbook Dictionaries and Translators • Babel Fish • The Free Dictionary • Merriam-Webster Dictionary • Oxford Dictionaries Free Online Image Editors • Aviary: Aviary offers everything from image editing to vector and audio editing. • FotoFlexer: FotoFlexer is an editor focused on photos. • Photoshop: Photoshop.com is the lightweight version of desktop application Photoshop. • Pixlr: Pixlr is quite similar to Splashup, but it does not quite offer the capabilities or performance. • Splashup: Splashup is quite similar to how Photoshop works, but it offers a stronger selection of tools. • Sumo Paint: Sumo Paint is another Photoshop-like editing app, although with an impressive collection of tools (including the magic wand). |
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• DoSomething.org: DoSomething.org helps teens channel their energy and desire for change into projects that will impact the world positively. • Planet Connect: Planet Connect is an online social network where high school students can learn about current environmental issues, funding opportunities, green colleges and environmental careers. • Youth Service America: YSA improves communities by increasing the number and the diversity of young people, ages 5-25, serving in substantive roles. Homework Help • Live Homework Help: Live Homework help connects students to online tutors available on demand every day from 3 to 10 p.m. for one-to-one help with homework, skills building and test prep. Newspapers • The Daily Breeze • Los Angeles Times • New York Times • Newseum Today's Front Pages: Front pages of local, national, and world newspapers. • USA Today • Washington Post Online Presentation Sites • Animoto: Animoto is designed to bridge the gap between the high production value of film and television, and the more "amateur" feeling of most user-created videos and photo albums. • Prezi: Prezi allows you to create dynamic presentations with its zoomable canvas and store in a cloud. Online Comic Creation Sites • Infotopia Comic Strips Creation Tools: A collection of free resources for the creation of comic strips. • Make Beliefs Comix: MakeBeliefsComix.com is a place for users to come to and have fun by creating their own world of comic strips. Quotes • BrainyQuote Religions of the World • BBC: Religions • The Big Religion Chart Research Help Online • Internet Public Library Ask-a-Librarian: 24/7 Access to a Librarian for most of the year. • Library of Congress Ask-a-Librarian: Specialized help from experts in the Library of Congress. Answers may take up to five days. • Los Angeles Public Library Ask-a-Librarian: 24/7 Access to a Librarian. |