I’m beginning my annual “The Best…” list highlighting “year in review” images. There aren’t a whole lot right now on the date of this post, but they’ll soon be coming out of the woodwork. I figured it would be helpful for teachers to get access to at least some of them prior to Winter Break.

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Here are my choices for The Best Year-End Collections Of Images — 2011:

The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 is from BuzzFeed.

Newsweek 2011 Pictures Of The Year

Best photos of the year 2011 is from Reuters.

TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2011 is from….TIME.

2011: The Year in Photos, Part 1 of 3 comes from The Atlantic.

2011: The Year in Photos, Part 2 of 3 is also from The Atlantic.

2011: The Year In Photos, Part 3 of 3 is the last Atlantic installment.

National Geographic has a ton of different “best of” photos for the year.

TIME Picks the Most Surprising Photos of 2011 is from…TIME.

Zeitgeist 2011: How the World Searched is from Google.

The Denver Post has a three part series of “2011 Best Photos of the Year”:

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

2011 in review: Arab Spring, disasters, demise of icons is from the Associated Press.

TIME Picks the Best Viral Photos of 2011 is from TIME.

2011 defining moments is from The Washington Post.

Photos Of The Year comes from The Wall Street Journal.

The Year In Pictures Part 1 comes from The Boston Globe.

The year in Pictures: Part II and Part III comes from The Boston Globe.

2011 – the year in review comes from The Guardian.

TIME’s Best Photojournalism of 2011

2011: The Year in Pictures is from The New York Times.

The Year In Review from Slate.

Year in Review: 2011 in Photos from Instagram.

Looking back at images from 2011 is from The Sacramento Bee.

Maps Of The World has a neat interactive map showing events of the year. Thanks to Richard Byrne for the tip.

The Year In Pictures 2011 comes from MSNBC.

The Year in Pictures | 2011 is from The Los Angeles Times.

The Year in Pictures 2011 is from ABC News.

2011 in Global development – in pictures is a slideshow from The Guardian.

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