January 11, 2013
Volume 3 Issue 6
Finding Free and Fair-Use Photos
Creative Commons
Free On-line Photo Editing Tool
Professional Development Newsletter Archive
Finding Free and Fair-Use Photos
To be in alignment with the digital citizenship strand of NETS·S (Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior), students need to do more than just grab images from Google Images. Students need to understand copyright and how to find royalty-free images that are okay to use in projects. As we all move into the digital realm, it is important that we show the ethical and appropriate ways to cite work and give credit where credits is due.
Below are four great sources for images for student projects.
Pic4Learning: This site offers a safe, free image library for education. These images can be used for classrooms, multimedia projects, Web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting.
Site: http://pics.tech4learning.com/
flickrCC: This is a good place to look for Creative Commons images. Do not forget to include attribution in any work that is produced with these images.
Site: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Fotopedia: This site has a nice layout with an endless-scrolling feature. Results just keep coming up à la Google Images. Make sure you direct students to select "advanced option" to search only for photos labeled for reuse.
Site: http://www.fotopedia.com
Flickr Storm: This is similar to flickrCC. You search and click on a thumbnail and the photo appears on the right. Make sure to have the students click on the advanced search feature to limit their searches to noncommercial and share-alike photos. One cool feature is the "Add to Tray" option. When you open the tray, all the photos you added are there in large-sized formats along with attribution information.
Site: http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/
Creative Commons
(from the Creative Commons Web site: http://creativecommons.org/about)
What is Creative Commons?
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
Our free, easy-to-use copyright licenses provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice. CC licenses let you easily change your copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “some rights reserved.”
Creative Commons licenses are not an alternative to copyright. They work alongside copyright and enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs.
What can Creative Commons do for me?
If you want to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work you’ve created, you should consider publishing it under a Creative Commons license. CC gives you flexibility (for example, you can choose to allow only non-commercial uses) and protects the people who use your work, so they don’t have to worry about copyright infringement, as long as they abide by the conditions you have specified.
If you’re looking for content that you can freely and legally use, there is a giant pool of CC-licensed creativity available to you. There are hundreds of millions of works — from songs and videos to scientific and academic material — available to the public for free and legal use under the terms of our copyright licenses, with more being contributed every day.
Visit the site for more information: http://creativecommons.org
PicMonkey
PicMonkey: (Site: http://www.picmonkey.com )A free on-line photo editor with various editing options (cropping, resize, rotate, etc.) It also has some effects that can be used on the photo similar to Instagram. Although there are some addition features and effects that you would have to subscribe to be able to use, the free resources and effects do quite a bit.
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