The Encyclopedia of Life

This is a wonderful new site with some fantastic images, most of which are licensed under creative commons.

The site is still in its early days, but the intention is that it will become a kind of wikipedia of life on Earth with a vast collection of text and images and possibly other media.

Original source of image and license

There's already quite a substantial number of organisms with images listed and many of the images and illustrations are really remarkable.

At the moment the site owners are looking for people to be curators of pages or species, but later this year there is a plan to open up the pages so that anyone can contribute.

This is a fantastic resource of information and images and has loads of potetial for teaching exploitation. One of the creators of this project is Edward O. Wilson and you can also find some short video clips of him talking about issues related to the environment on Big Think. All useful and interesting stuff if you are thinking of doing any lessons on the environment or if you just need some flashcards or images to use in teaching projects.

• The link for Edward O. Wilson on Big Think is:
• http://www.bigthink.com/user/edward-o-wilson
• The link for The The Encyclopedia of Life is:
• http://www.eol.org
• To get some tips and suggestions for how to use Big Think go to my article 'Video Debating website'

Hope you enjoy it.

Best

Nik Peachey