Thank you for all the positive feedback on last week's first issue using the new format. It makes it all worthwhile to me to hear from all of you! Here's to the many successful issues of the I.T. Newsletter still to come.

Now that classrooms are ready and everyone is taking the Labor Day weekend off to close out their summer, I thought it might be an especially opportune time to deliver on my promise for an issue on digital clip art for teachers. I still have huge bound copies of clip art that I paid $10-$15 for ten years ago. I would photocopy a page of assorted characters, cut out the exact image I wanted, scotch tape it down to my mock up of my newsletter, and then head back to the photocopier. My how far we've come!

Please start sending me ideas for future issues of the newsletter you would like to see. I'm always open to suggestions. In the mean time, enjoy these educational clip art links!

• Clip Art Guide - http://www.clipartguide.com/clipart_computer.html
  This wide range of office and high-school related clip art can come in handy for newsletters, desk top publishing, multimedia projects and web pages.
  
• Art Today - http://www.arttoday.com/PD-0027811/
  You have free access to nearly 200,000 images here just for registering, and for $30 a year you can have unlimited access to more than 1 million images!
• Teacher Files - http://www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm
  Fifteen different categories of educational clip art, including animated images, some of which are free hand while others are of photographic quality.
• D & W's Educational Clip Art - http://theteacherspot.com/school_clipart1.htm
  There are ten pages of all kinds of clip art here for teachers. Many are colorful, some are black and white, all are free-hand drawing quality.
• Coop's Teacher Graphics - http://www.geocities.com/~susank/gifs6.html
  Here are five colorful pages of elementary-level clip art, including images, headers and backgrounds all free for the taking.
  
• Discovery School Clip Art - http://school.discovery.com/clipart/
  This web clearinghouse for teaching ideas offers lots of common sense categories with basic, clean looking images you canm odify and make use of as you like. Animated images too.
• GIFs Now - http://gifsnow.com/
  If you want them animated, you want GIF images, and this site offers a number of very slick, school appropriate pics. There's even sections allotted to specific artists!
• Kid's Domain - http://www.kidsdomain.com/clip/index.html
  This wide range of office and high-school related clip art can come in handy for newsletters, desk top publishing, multimedia projects and web pages.
  
• Clips Ahoy - http://www.clipsahoy.com/school.htm
  The school section of this ambitious clip art site houses page after page of K-12 graphics, including graduation and prom clips for high schoolers.
• Go Graph - http://www.gograph.com/
  More than 400 categories of clip art are housed here, but it's the monthly thematic collections that got my attention. How teacher friendly can you get?
  
• CyberBee - http://www.cyberbee.com/bts.html
  This is a nice collection of different kinds of school-related clip art. Some may suit you more than others, depending on your grade level. Take a look!
• Media Builder - http://www.animfactory.com/
  This collection of animated GIFs is free and easy on the eyes. Most are of photographic quality and many are claymation caliber. Come back often for the animation of the day - great for web pages!

Click here for the .html version of this week's edition!

Next week's topic: "Grants and Funding"

Please send in URL's of high quality sites which may be of interest to our readers to walter@surfaquarium.com! Also, I'm always looking for new topic ideas and input!

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