Turn any image into an online jigsaw puzzle. Put a photo of a student into a reading poster. Place your class on the cover of a magazine. Change a photograph into a cartoon drawing. Add picture frames and text to field trip photos. There are dozens of free online tools that let you do all of this and more!
Teachers use digital images as visual aids to make their lessons more memorable. They also use images on their class websites to enhance its look or to communicate a message.
Students use digital images in their projects. The image itself might be the end product or images might be used in slide shows, websites, videos, brochures, etc.
Here are some free websites teachers and students can use to make fun and educational images:
Dynamic Einstein Picture
Enter your own text on Albert Einstein's chalkboard.
Resize Image
Very simple website where you can easily resize an image to fit on your website. Remember, it's ok to make an image smaller, but enlarging a digital image will make it look blotchy.
RoundPic
Give a rectangular image rounded corners.
RedKid.Net
Put your own text on a variety of images, like a hotdog, iPod, sign, or even in a bowl of soup.
Official Seal Maker
Choose from a variety of templates and make your seal say whatever you'd like.
Newspaper Clipping Generator
Title the newspaper and write the text to look like an article.
Big Huge Labs Magazine
Design a cover of a magazine using your own photo as the background.
Badge Maker
Make an ID badge or pass. Issue one to students when they demonstrate mastery of a skill. Sometimes second grade teachers issue their students a "subtraction license."
Motivator
Create your own customized motivational poster. Great for illustrating vocabulary words.
BeFunky
Easily add photo effects, speech bubbles, text, and frames to your images. One of the best effects turns your photo into a cartoon drawing.
12 Sites to Create Cartoon Characters of Yourself
A list of various sites where you can make cartoon people. Great for use as avatars on websites.
PhotoFunia
Select an effect and then upload a head shot to be inserted into the effect.
Picnik
Tweak your photos with a variety of editing tools. Add text, clip art, and picture frames to photos.
Vector Magic
Have an image that you want to enlarge but it looks blocky when enlarged? Upload it to Vector Magic and be able to enlarge without the blocky look. Vector Magic turns images into crisp and clean artwork that scales well.
Jigsaw Planet
Make any image into an interactive online jigsaw puzzle for students to solve. Using educational images will help students remember whatever is in that image. For example, students work on putting together a puzzle showing the three branches of government.
Blabberize
Make a talking photo! Upload an image, indicate the mouth, and then record audio.
Gizmoz
Another site for making talking images.
It's best if you can use your very own images at the sites above. However, there are times when you want to use photos you find on the Internet. Remember that images you find on the Web are copywritten and you must have permission to repost them on online. Luckily there are sources for copyright-friendly images. You can download and freely use images from sites like the ones below.
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