News of a new version of this original post featuring websites where you can find high quality pictures that are free to use on your own website or blog. I’ve listed more than 25 resources. The updated version has more than twice as many websites featured. Here it is:
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I recently taught a course for adults on blogging. As I expected, some people still believe that if an image is discovered on Google Images then it is free to use. The advice is, as always: check the licence!
A more sure-fire way of finding images you can use legitimately is to search the free illustration sites.
More articles on using and teaching education technology
I asked Claude to convert a pdf flyer into an HTML format I could insert into a Markdown block in Squarespace. Here’s the result…
I’ve been experimenting with using artificial intelligence apps to help me format documents. Here is a description of the process I went through.
In a couple of weeks’ time I shall be teaching a course called Creative Writing Using Constraints, at the City Lit in London. I felt that the blurb on the City Lit’s website was a bit mundane. So I got AI to write a better one.
I was recently commissioned to write a blog post for an organisation. They gave me loads of stuff in different formats to draw on. Here’s how I coped!
An AI expert recently advised people to just subscribe to the premium version of one of the AI apps, rather than waste time hopping between several free ones all the time. Hmmm….
I came across a “resource” recently that consists of hundreds of “ready-to-wear” AI prompts.
How might you use fiction as a vehicle for teaching computational thinking? Here are some ideas.
This is an updated version of a post on my Substack newsletter from a few years ago, with bits of another of my articles thrown in for good measure.

What can your students do in the odd five minutes in computing lessons? Here are ten suggestions.