Copyright is an important issue for teachers, especially if you start posting your work in the open. Skim through this copyright guide for teachers. Also, try using the Creative Commons image search to find cool images that are "safe" for you to use. When you use Creative Commons to search for images, make sure you click on "modify, adapt, build upon." To find images, you will need to click on Flickr. You can sort the images that are returned by relevance or those that the Flickr community find most interesting.
Comments (6)
Joy Mayer said
at 10:05 pm on Jun 27, 2010
How about clicking on Google Images instead of Flickr? Seems to get your images as well. Is the only difference in searching for images using Creavite Commons instead of just searching Google images is that you don't have to worry about copyright?
Tanya Gordon said
at 3:00 pm on Jun 29, 2010
I have the same question as Joy - also when using images from Creative Commons and say embedding them into a Power point, what is the extent to which I need to cite the source? thanks you for any advice here.
Annie Hesterman said
at 1:52 pm on Jun 30, 2010
Same question for me too. I use Google Images all the time so it would be good to know the difference. Also Tanya's question, how exactly do we need to cite these images?
brunsell said
at 7:41 pm on Jun 8, 2011
Creative Common Search will give you images that you can use without worrying about copyright violations. I usually cite Flickr images by including either the link or including the phrase - source: username's Flickr photostram
Maya Lampic said
at 12:41 pm on Jun 27, 2011
Thank you for this information. It is great to have a safe site whenit comes to copyright.
Rob Lee said
at 7:33 pm on Jun 28, 2011
Great information! I've only briefly thought about copyright infringement while in my classroom. It's obviously better to be educated about it.
Rob
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