IMAGE GALLERIES
Updated May 2007
There are plenty of people who (out of the goodness of their heart) place images on their websites when they come back from field trips. On this site there are images from my visits to the Norfolk Coast and Castleton in the Peak District, plus various images of locations around the country, notably the Isle of Skye, Northumberland, Cambridge, Devon and sundry other locations. (use the SEARCH facility to check them out...)
The issue is always one of copyright. Generally, I feel happy using images in the classroom, but there are other times when I want to share or publish resources containing appropriate images.
The best subscription based image gallery is that produced by IAN MURRAY. He has a range of images and offers very reasonably priced options for having the rights to use them. He's probably adding new images as you read this! There are plenty of images of the UK and abroad, including some sample images. Pay a visit by clicking the logo below. . Remember that a good image can be very useful for starter activities. Why not spend your e-learning credits here - it's CURRICULUM ONLINE APPROVED! Ian is keen to help teachers by giving them what they want. There are well over 2500 images available right now. Pep up your teaching with a few 'geographyphotos'. Recommended
Highly Commended in the GA Awards 2005
Now available at a reduced price to GA MEMBERS
Other sources of images:
Some good images of the DORSET coast, with features such as Lulworth Cove, Durdle Door, Chesil Beach and Man o' War rocks produced by a Hertfordshire school.
NOTLEY HIGH SCHOOL in Essex has added several pages of images from various trips. They have photos from a visit to the THAMES BARRIER, HIROSHIMA GARLANDS, DORSET (plenty of images) and HANNINGFIELD RESERVOIR. A lot dating back to around 2004.
The Geography page of St James Catholic HIGH SCHOOL has a few images, notably of a trip to Chester There are also some literacy resources on this page: spelling mats, an examination mat, and rivers and earthquake mats, as well as other materials.
Some useful images of CASTLETON, YORKSHIRE DALES and CONSTRUCTION OF SEA DEFENCES at SCARBOROUGH at the site of HORBURY school in Wakefield.
IMAGES OF ENGLAND has over 300 000 photos. There is also a LEARNING ZONE. Produced by ENGLISH HERITAGE.
Feel free to use this BLANK T-SHIRT for homework exercises etc: a useful 'standby' - that or a 'storyboard' - they actually look very good as a display if the shirts are printed out a bit smaller and then given to the students...
Need some images ? Go to FREEFOTO. They have over 100 000 copyright-free images which you can use as long as you credit them, which means adding a small logo to the pages where the photos are placed. They have a series of images on the following themes, which you'll find useful:
FLOODS: Aldwarke and York on the River Ouse. Ponteland on the River Pont, and Yarm on Tees.
THE LAKES: a range of images of features and locations which could be useful for a piece of work on National Parks.
WEATHER: Would be useful to illustrate work on Fog, Frost, Gales (lots of images of damage, including trees which are down..), Frost, Rain and Snow.
FARMING and INDUSTRY
FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN and NEW YORK
Try GEOSNAPPER.COM - the idea is that people take a picture, and then record their co-ordinates on a GPS receiver, and then upload them to the website, which links the photos to maps, so that you can see what a place looks like. Maybe one day the whole world will be covered, but so far there's only 1000 odd. Send a photo and see what we can create!
A super picture gallery of WALES is available at PHOTOLIBRARYWALES. This has some great images of Snowdonia for example, which would be useful for work on tourism in National Parks, glacial scenery etc.
Some rather nice photos at TREK EARTH.
One of the largest sites of photos I've come across is WEBSHOTS. There are now over 380 MILLION IMAGES!!
Easy to search through, though you may have to sift through a lot of irrelevant things before you find something useful - lots of people stood in front of various famous landmarks, and pets doing funny things....
For actual useful GEOGRAPHY IMAGES of the highest quality, which are ideal for Geography teachers, head over to Andrew Stacey's site. This has a large collection of GALLERIES which include some great pictures of places such as Old Harry, Cambridge Science Park et al. These are all excellent images, and he has recently added a series from the GA Conference 2007. Recommended.
Check out the GESOURCE Satellite gallery. This has over 2000 images categorised into groups such as Rivers, Cities, Coasts etc. or by Country. Now also has resource packs for key subjects. Recommended.
For more copyright free images (just need to add a credit if you use them) with large galleries of Italy and other locations is CEPOLINA: it has over 1800 royalty free photos available for download - go and have a look!
For clipart for use in the classroom, why not go to CLASSROOM CLIPART. This has hundreds of images for use in the classroom, plus wallpapers, sound files and lots more. Pay a visit and see what they have to offer.
David Robinson of the long-running THE GEOGRAPHY SITE has added several hundred royalty free images for use in displays and the classroom.
Chris Kington publishing, who produce the David Leat 'Thinking Skills' books have released what looks to be an excellent pack on the use of Images in Geography: 'Look at This: Exploring place in photographs' The books link in with the images of HARRY CORY WRIGHT. His images are displayed at the very stylish SALT WATER gallery in Burnham Market: a village on the North Norfolk coast, and also something of a 'honey-pot' - many of the properties are second homes, and house prices are rather ridiculous. 4 books are included in the pack: Burn, Strand, Flora and Chipshop. These come with a set of photographs printed on stout card, a poster and an A4 photocopiable workbook which is available in either a PRIMARY or a SECONDARY format with guidance on using it with groups of students.
The pack costs £47.50. Check it out HERE
FLICKR TOOLS
Other PHOTO TOOLS include FLICKR and PICASA, both of which allow photos to be added to weblogs. There is also something called a FLICKR badge, an example of which is shown below.
In addition to the FLICKR BADGE above, a recent find thanks to the Guardian's ONLINE supplement is the FLICKR MAGAZINE COVER maker. This requires you to have uploaded an image to FLICKR which has been made public, and which has a LARGE size version available. You then need to know the URL of the image: the page where it is displayed, and then add some text to create your own magazine cover. This has great potential for a lesson on some issue such as FLOODING where appropriate tag lines and content need to be decided upon. I shall be using this in lessons!
Small image - click to enlarge. Made with the FLICKR MAGAZINE COVER tool linked to from above. Thanks !
This has now been added to by 2 new SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS which you may not have come across. The first is called MAX and is from MICROSOFT.
Also say HELLO to HELLO from PICASA.
Also check out http://www.dumpr.net which has some great new tools for manipulating images: you can make your images into museum exhibits, or turn them into sketches. Here's an example (click to enlarge)
WINDOWS ON THE WORLD
Like the Geo Blogs project, this was sponsored by a grant from the RGS-IBG.
The WINDOWS ON THE WORLD project is a collection of photographs which are related to a whole range of themes. They have been collated by M. Parker (an AST) & Phil Sullivan, and can be used for educational use (subject to copyright)
Check out the galleries...
Prefer your pictures to move ? Head over to my new MOVIES page.
How about CARTOONS ?
There are some great FREEWARE cartoons at NEARING ZERO - thanks to djemba on SLN FORUM
http://www.nearingzero.net/subjects.html
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