Photos for IB Language B

Now that the International Baccalaureate has changed the test for 2013 for Language B, teachers are responsible for finding photographs to use in class for practice as well as photos to use in the indvidual oral internal assessment. I’ve been collecting websites that have photos in hopes of finding some good photos to use for Spanish. I can’t guarantee you’d find the perfect photos, but here is what I have so far:

news stories in pictures http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/ There’s an interesting photo called “The Mine” in Guatemala

photos of Spain http://www.spanish-teaching.com/photos

Canarias 7 Galeria http://www.canarias7.es/multimedia/galerias.cfm

BBC Mundo Video y Fotos http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/video_fotos/

Mexico photo gallery http://www.mexconnect.com/search?search%5Btype%5D=Gallery

5 Card Flickr: Choose 5 randomly generated photos and write a story using them http://5card.cogdogblog.com/play.php?suit=5card

NPR photo blog, can search for specific country or topic http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/

travel blog photos from around the world http://www.travelblog.org/travel-photos.html

photos of unusual things http://www.odditycentral.com/category/pics

great photos at http://www.worldatlaspedia.com/es/ Click on “Fotografias del mundo”

Zachary Jones has great photos, keep clicking on the link to past photos to look at them all
http://zachary-jones.com/photovocab/

Photo essays on a foreign policy e-magazine, has some related to Spanish, it looks interesting
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/category/section/photo_essay

Banco de imagenes y sonidos (sitio para educacion del gobierno de España) http://recursostic.educacion.es/bancoimagenes/web/

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/travel-photos/?source=NavTravPhoto

http://www.tudiscovery.com/imagenes/
http://www.tudiscovery.com/imagenes/galleries/costa-rica/
http://www.tudiscovery.com/imagenes/galleries/argentina/

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/

http://spanauthenticresources.wikispaces.com/IMAGES

CAPL Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon http://capl.washjeff.edu/browse.php
(The creator of this site won at award for it at ACTFL in Denver.)

http://www.realiaproject.org/

Advertisements from around the world http://adsoftheworld.com/

http://www.spanishpodcast.org/fotos/ click on a photo and it takes you information in Spanish and to more photos like this of La Boca in Buenos Aires http://www.spanishpodcast.org/fotos/buenos%20aires/laboca/sw/index.html

do a Google image search for the book “Where Children Sleep”
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/where-children-sleep/
http://www.life.com/gallery/48361/image/ugc1126541/where-children-sleep#index/0

photos of homes and possessions around the world http://www.catalog.socialstudies.com/pdf/ZP219Psample.pdf

photos of families around the world and the food they eat http://www.catalog.socialstudies.com/pdf/ZP384Psample.pdf