Pictures and Video

Google Draw may not be the most sophisticated or feature-rich drawing program out there - but it takes no time to get started, it is more powerful than it looks at first and, importantly, it integrates perfectly with all the other Google tools.

If you want to insert a sketch into a document, this is the easiest way to do it.

And it's free, of course.

Youtube needs no introduction, of course.

Worth mentioning that it's also the world's second biggest search engine.

Google, who own it, have been working hard recently to make it function more like a social media site - look out for these features to be developed in the future.

Clickview is designed for schools and it provides a huge library of video material, including TV programmes, interactive lessons and material curated to meet curriculum requirements.

It is also very easy to create interactive video quizzes and to share them.

Clickview integrates very well with Google Classroom

Pinterest functions as a social media site but its focus is very much on pictures and visual imagery.

Think of it like an online pinboard - or, in fact, an unlimited number of pinboards.

You can upload, save and collect images and organise them into boards - which can then be searched and shared.

It's a huge site and therefore a great resource.

Google Arts and Culture is a hugely ambitious project which is gradually collecting high-res images of many of the world's greatest artworks.

It includes virtual walk-arounds of some of the most famous galleries in the world.

Perhaps most interesting are the many and varied ways that Google is finding to curate and to present the works. The number of pieces in the collection is already much too big to just look through so the challenge is to find exciting ways to organise them.

An amazing resource