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Create interactive mobile presentations with embedded assessment options.

From the website: "COLOURlovers is an international creative community that helps people discover their inner designer. We provide people with a wealth of user created & shared color inspiration as well as tools that make the creative process as simple as possible. Whether you’re simply looking for a color palette to kickstart your next project or want to produce a piece of vector art, we have the tools and services to help anybody from go from design inspiration to execution."

From the site: "Canva gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more."

From the site: "Padlet is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device.
Think of it like a multimedia friendly, free-form, real-time wiki."

Create animated videos online.

Create animated videos and presentations online using a variety of styles, images, and music.

Convert audio MP3, M4A, or AAC, and video files into MP4, 3GP, AVI, or MOV.

Cut video files down to just the clips that you need.

Screencasting, Camera, or both

Make podcasts for free from your iOs or Android device

Online photo editing

A site with tools for lots of fun and interesting projects for photos.

From the site: "Canva gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more."

From the site: "iPiccy makes your photo awesome with many easy to use photo tools. Edit pictures, apply beautiful photo effects, add text and even paint! Enjoy free photo editing online and show your creativity with iPiccy editor!"

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Free stock photographs.

Public domain images. This site is also supported by premium providers, and their not-for-free images are at the bottom of each page.

From the site: "On Pixabay you may find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are published under Creative Commons Public Domain deed CC0. You can copy, modify, distribute and use the images, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission and without paying attribution. However, depicted content may still be protected by trademarks, publicity or privacy rights."

From the site: "Delicious free stock photos for personal & commercial use. I am a Graphic Designer and Photographer... Over the years I took many pictures, Most of them were growing old and gathering dust in my hard drive. That's why I decided to set up SplitShire, to make them reviving. Thank to you my photos will not go to the oblivion. You are free to do whatever you want with them, personal and commercial projects. Now start downloading them for free and make something awesome."

From the site: "1 Million Free Pictures is a repository of 100% free pictures! No registration required. No fees collected. No annoying watermarks. No accounts needed. Just free pictures. All pictures in this photo blog are dedicated in the public domain . This repository of original amateur free pictures is perfect for bloggers, webmasters, students, or anyone looking for amateur free pictures for their projects. "

A collection of public domain photographs. Not searchable, but a good source for off-the-wall images.

From the site: PDPics.com is a repository of free public domain pictures. All images have been clicked by our in-house photographers."

A large collection of public domain photographs and images.

While these images are not Public Domain, they are they are provided for free use in creative projects. Images should be attributed whenever possible.

Free Stock Photos

Each image has it's own licensing statement

Public Domain Photos, sorted by color

A free online tool for creating infographics.

A free online tool for creating interactive infographics

From the site: "Easel.ly is a website that features thousands of free infographic templates and design objects which users can customize to create and share their visual ideas online. Using the site is as easy as dragging and dropping design elements, and users can either choose a template from our extensive library, or they can upload their own background image and start from scratch."

From the site: "Canva gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more."

Create flexible charts and graphs that you can download or embed.

Infographic creation tool, plus much more!

Online tool for creating timelines. Free version is ad supported, allows unlimited public timelines, and one draft timeline.

From the website: "TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables you to build visually-rich interactive timelines and is available in 40 languages."

From the site: "Canva gives you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs. Create designs for Web or print: blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and so much more."

Create animated videos and presentations online using a variety of styles, images, and music.