If you’ve used Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, or just about any other social network then you’ve probably seen some interesting quotes presented in the form of a splashy and colorful image. You may have thought “I wish I had the time and graphic design expertise to create something nifty like that! My students and friends would love it.”

Well, the long wait is over. Below is a useful list of more than two dozen (and growing) sites that let you easily create interesting quote images. These can be useful for presentations or project-based learning in just about any classroom.

For example, you can have students find a favorite quote, create an innovative image out of that quote, and then stand up and explain why that quote matters to them. The quote can

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We don’t talk a lot about homeschooling here at Edudemic, mainly because the vast majority of our readers are classroom based teachers (or at least group-based teachers – we know that many of you are online teachers!). The fact that we don’t talk much about it shouldn’t be read into too much- there’s still a lot to say about homeschooling – or unschooling, or hackschooling, as different variations are becoming known.

This awesome TED talk was given by 13 year old Logan LaPlante – a ‘hackschooler’ himself. He talks about why hackschooling makes him happy. Whether you’re a classroom teacher, administrator, a homeschooler, or otherwise, there are a lot of takeaways about personalized education in this talk. While the extreme personalized education one can receive as a homeschooler, unschooler,

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