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21st Century Skills Resources for Librarians: Here is a nice set of resources from Institute of...

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holtthink: Yup. Time to put on your big boy pants and stop making excuses. That goes for you too Mr. and Mrs Administrator

OK, so what teacher or student living in this century doesn’t need a cool photo or two for a school-related activity? If you’re that person, then you’re going to love, love Pixabay, a site that hosts over 240,000 high quality public domain photos, illustrations and vector graphics free of charge for any purpose (the legal kind, of course). Find your next hip image by conducting a keyword search and then if necessary, narrow your search through filtering by image type, category and/or orientation (landscape or horizontal). Users can also locate images by simply browsing the library as well. Once you discover "the one", click the download button to view a variety of size choices to suit your needs. All Pixabay images can be utilized without attribution in digital and/or print form, even for commercial applications. Just so you know: Pixabay is an ad-supported site so when an image search is performed, a set of sponsored Shutterstock images appears at the top of the results page (similar to some Google search results in which display ads appear before the real deal). I have to admit, these images are pretty neat, but those appearing below the Shutterstock samples are the freebies. A few images I located via a search using the keyword "happiness": Classroom Connection: In order to avoid any copyright issues, I typically recommend that students generate their own photos and graphics for multimedia projects whenever possible. However, when using their images is not an option, Pixabay is an excellent alternative.

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Inforgraphic courtesy of dailyinfographic.com

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Here is the final video as described in a previous post, which we hope will remind students how, in the real world, they have many different types of relationships with people and to be aware that this is also the case online. How you present your digital self is crucial, as is being careful about what information you are giving away about yourself. Have a look at Facebook’s own ‘Guides to Facebook Privacy Settings’ to make sure you’re happy with the information you’re sharing online. We would like to thank all the staff from the Faculty of Health, the Teaching and Learning Directorate and Human Resources who volunteered to be in this production - you were great sports! The movie was created in iMovie and Adobe After Effects. For those who are interested, the ‘cartoon’ effect was created using ‘cartoonr‘ - a fantastic free plug-in you can download from newbluefx.com

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