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The ESL Commando: iPad Skitch is a great app for making drawings, mock-ups, diagrams, etc. I personally like to use it in conjunction with ShowMe, which I will talk about in a later post. As an ESL teacher, I like Skitch because it has elegant text, arrows, and writing capabilities that allow for professional looking presentations. So, here are some quick uses for Skitch. 1) Make a vocab map. 2) Make an instruction map. 3) Annotate a student's paper. 4) Sync with Evernote Trunk and add audio to your comments on a student's paper. 5) Create a classroom picture for substitutes. Do you have any apps to add?

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53+ Free Image Sources For Your Blog and Social Media Posts | Courtney Seiter In social media, we're all increasingly thinking about visual content. At Buffer, we've shared our own study on the importance of images in Twitter posts for more social sharing. We've explored tools that help anyone create visual content. But there's one question we get asked quite often: Where can you find free, good quality images that are cleared to use for your blog posts or social media content? It's a question with a lot of different answers and caveats. We'll explore all of these and then some in this post about free image sources. What is Creative Commons? There are various types of Creative Commons licenses that range from allowing any type of use with no attribution to allowing only certain uses and no changes. What is public domain? These terms will come up often as we discuss free photo sources. In this post, we'll break down more than 50 different sources and tools for visual content. Searchable photo databases 1.) 2.) Image Credit: khunaspix via FreeDigitalPhotos.net 3.) 4.)