design and images
- Unsplash: Beautiful free images for you to use however you want
- Pexels: Even more beautiful free images and video clips for you to use however you want
- Canva: Create professional-looking posters, invitations, PowerPoint slides, and much more with this free graphic design site
- Adobe Spark: Easily create images and short videos
- Pixlr: Free online photo editor
media literacy
- AllSides: Presents news articles that are rated for bias from the far left to the far right.
- FactCheck: A nonpartisan site that provides the truth about claims made by politicians
- Real or Satire: Copy and paste a story's URL to see if it's real or fake
- Politifact: Fact-checking U. S. politics
reading and research
- Feedly: A user-friendly, aesthetically-pleasing way to follow your favorite sites and blogs
- Pocket: Allows users to save content with just a click for later viewing
- Wakelet: Save, organize, and share content from across the web
- Google Scholar: An academic search engine that allows users to search for journal articles, book excerpts, and more
writing and grammar
- Purdue OWL: This resource from Purdue provides help with writing and research, and also offers MLA and APA guides
- Grammarly Blog: You might use Grammarly's software when writing, but they also have a blog full of great tips
- Lexico from Oxford Dictionaries: This site offers grammar advice and also includes a dictionary and thesaurus
- Common Errors: A WSU professor has put together a guide of the most commonly misused words
- GrammarBook: Brush on your skills with fun quizzes and lists of grammar rules