How am I to make interesting lessons without any pictures?

All of the good image searches are blocked. First off they are only blocked because a small percentage of students use them to look at inappropriate pictures. With the increasing number of computers in a classroom it has become very difficult for teachers to see what every student is doing at all times. You would not believe what we have found students searching for. We are looking into different filtering software that would allow us to unblock yahoo and google images. The filter would enforce the child safe searches built into the filters. I do not know if or when we can implement something like this but we are working on it. We are looking into other sources for images. As a work around www.unitedstreaming.com has 35,000 images plus all of the videos. If you do not have an account with unitedstreaming email me. Microsoft has 150,000 images and sounds. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx After you complete the search you can filter it to only show photos.