Everyone knows Google and its image search function, but did you know http://www.flickr.com/, a great photo site where photographers from around the world have uploaded literally millions of pictures? Because many of these interesting and beautiful photos are tagged by location or topic, you can search for a picture you want accordingly. If your search term has more than one word, you can put quotation marks around your search phrase. That way, the photos called up will more precisely match what you are looking for.
You can then further search your term by changing from the default "Everyone's Uploads" to "The Getty Images Collection" for high-quality photos.
I think these real-life photos can provide academic content for classroom teachers when looking for an image to explain an object, for example. Innovative teachers can even use the site when creating a technology-integrated assignment.
By the way, not only is the site fun to explore, it also allows anyone to create a free account to share some of their own photos.
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