Wixie
Student publishing and creativity platform. Users can search and insert images from Pics4Learning within the application.
Pixie
Software for student publishing and creativity.
Wixie
Online student publishing and creativity platform.
Frames
Create animations, digital stories, and stop-motion.
Share
Create web sites, epubs, and presentations.
These software tools let users search and insert images from Pics4Learning within the application.
Lesson Plans
High-level ideas for engaging students and using Pics4Learning images in the classroom.
Creativity
Articles to help build powerful thinking skills with creativity.
Digital Storytelling
Articles and ideas for engaging students with digital storytelling.
21st Century Classrooms
Articles to help you create a 21st century classroom and build 21st century skills.
Articles, ideas, and lessons for engaging students with technology.
Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for schools. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting.
Photographers from around the world donate images to this collection. While the photographers retain the rights to these photos, they have graciously allowed their use through this collection.
The thousands of donated photos are approved for use in the classroom, indexed, and sorted in order to maximize their effective use by students in a 21st century classroom.
With your active participation, this image collection will continue to grow into an even more valuable resource.
The Pics4Learning collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting. The original photographers of each image retain the copyright to these images and have graciously allowed their use in this collection. The images may not be sold as an image collection or partial image collection. Images in the Pics4Learning collection may be used by teachers and students in print, multimedia, and video productions. These could include, but are not limited to, school projects, contests, web pages, and fund raising activities for the express purpose of improving student educational opportunities.
Images cannot be used for commercial production without permission. This includes projects being sold on sites that market teacher produced products to other teachers.
In 1995, the members of Educational Design Studio were looking for a few free use images for a project and were amazed to find so little available for teachers and students in the way of free photographic images. Knowing that they all had thousands of photos sitting in photo albums at home, they wondered if people would be willing to contribute their images for educational non-profit purposes and the PhotoShare Image Library was born.
Originally distributed on CD-ROM, PhotoShare was given an online home in 1996 through work done by Orange County Public Schools in Orlando, Florida. PhotoShare was nominated by Netscape for ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award and given the award in 1997.
In 1999, Orange County Public Schools partnered with Tech4Learning, Inc. to house, develop, and expand the PhotoShare concept. PhotoShare is renamed to Pics4Learning to highlight its new identity.
Since 1999, the image collection has grown from 7000 to over 30,000 images used by a million students and teachers every year for their classroom projects.
Creative Educator
A free source of strategies to foster creativity, and integrate technology into the classroom.
Rubric Maker
Create custom rubrics for your classroom.
Graphic Organizer Maker
Create custom graphic organizers for your classroom.
Wixie
An online student publishing and creativity platform.
Searching Pics4Learning
To search Pics4Learning, type in a few words that may describe the images you are looking for. The more precise you are, the better your results will be. For example, searching for "yellow" will result in everything that is referenced as "yellow". Searching for "Yellowstone" is more precise, and will result in images with "Yellowstone" in the reference for the image.
Capitalization
Pics4Learning searches are not case sensitive. What this means is no matter how you type in the case of the searches, it will return the same results. For example, "San Francisco", "san francisco" and "SAN FRANCISCO" will all return the same thing.
Automatic "or" Searches
By default, Pics4Learning returns images that contain any of the search terms entered. For example, if you did a search for "finn dog", the results would be for any image that contained either "finn" OR "dog" in the reference.
" + " Searches
You can have Pics4Learning search for all the search words by placing a "+" in between the words you wish to search for. For example, searching for "cactus + flower" will only result in images that have both "cactus" AND "flower" in the reference. Remember to put a SPACE between the "+" and your search words.
" - " Searches
Sometimes you may find the need to exclude words from a search results. Placing a "-" will exclude the next word from the list. For example, searching for "food - apples" will result in images that have "food" but DOES NOT contain "apples" in the reference. Remember to put a SPACE between the "-" and your search words.
Phrase Searches
Search Pics4Learning for exact phrases or proper names by putting quotation marks around your search words. For example, search for "Grand Canyon" (with the quotes around phrase or name) will result in all images with "Grand Canyon" as part of their reference information.
Combined Searches
You can refine your searches even further by combining "+", "-" and your search words. For example, searching for "tree + desert - bird" will find all the images that have "tree" AND "desert" but NOT "bird" in the reference for the image.