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Kid Safe Search Engines (including Image Searches)

We're back up and running for another school year.  For those of you who follow this blog, I apologize for completely dropping off the face of the Earth.  But I have been around.  I spent a week in Philadelphia at ISTE this summer (my first time at ISTE), presented at MACUL for the first time (see the post below) and presented at the 21st Century Learning Symposium at Marysville High School . While it's no excuse to let go of this blog for such a long time, I do promise to be back at it once again with abandon.  So, without further ado, let's take care of a big topic request that comes around every year.  Kid Safe Search Engines.  Many of the big portals for Kid Search have nearly abandoned their specific Image Search in favor of more broad search results not specific to images only.  Take Ask Kids and Yahoo Kids for example.  You will no longer see an Images or Pictures button on those sites.  However, the list I've compiled below presents a pretty thorough list of