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By: Call for Images | Finding Common Ground

Call for Images | Finding Common Ground — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:26:26 +0000

[...] One of the sites I direct elementary students to for locating project images is Pics4Learning. It’s included on an earlier post of mine, Images Choices. [...]

By: mkrill

mkrill — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:33:24 +0000

I’m posting a general ‘thank you’ for all the comments on this post. Helping students understand and respect the right of others is important today, as it has always been. I don’t have the answer to how creative commons determines the images returned, but would be interested if someone else does?
Thanks again for reading!

By: Nuusa Faamoe

Nuusa Faamoe — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:24:01 +0000

I have to join the bandwagon and say that this is really great information! I come from a developing country and have been fascinated with things the types of information that students can access instantaneously. As a university graduate student now who will take a lot of this information back home, you have provided great help in enabling me to know those links that will be for the most part, be accessible to my classroom students. I have often used Google Images, and as you rightly put it, has a lot of links that
requires copyright sanction and also contains images that may not be appropriate. The u-tube link to Creative Commons is most instructive and would be a great way to explain to students the reasons for copyright laws! I have added the links you have provided to my list of educational tools for students.

Thank you

By: Point of Departure: Food for Thought 1.1 (W to S) « Clyde Street

Point of Departure: Food for Thought 1.1 (W to S) « Clyde Street — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:33:44 +0000

[...] too), and the Global Education Collaborative (16 January), a link to Michelle Krill’s post on Image Choices, vFlat Classroom wiki, and Diigo (17 [...]

By: ThisGlobe.com Blogs » Daily Spotlight on Education 01/17/2009

ThisGlobe.com Blogs » Daily Spotlight on Education 01/17/2009 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:24:08 +0000

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By: Sue Hellman

Sue Hellman — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:19:32 +0000

I have added Creative Commons Search to my Firefox list of search engines and will have students working with it tomorrow. I’m wondering how CC Search assesses things like images. EG if there is a cartoon with a restricted copyright used but not cited in a blog with a more friendly one, which level of care would win?

My students rebel at limiting their searches and citing sources tremendously. They think anything on the web is free for the taking, and I often struggle to get them to understand that: (a) just because other people’s work is easy to take, does not make the theft any less real; (2) they must respect the WORKPRODUCT of others in the way they’d like their own to be respected in turn.

My at-risk high school kids are not very good at seeing situations from others’ point of view, so I have zing them with analogies that they can connect to: if you worked hard at McD’s all week and left the money you’d earned out on a table out in plain sight, does that mean it’s OK for me to use it? If you leave your iPhone in plain site and I need one, can I use it without asking just because it’s available & then do I have the right to put my name on it?

By: Kirsten Kelly

Kirsten Kelly — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:50:51 +0000

Our school is part of huge technology grant and as such have had SmartBoards and five computers placed in each classroom in the building. It is a great opportunity; however, it has been difficult having students find images on the internet since our district has blocked several sites from use. Some of these sites are even educational, but because of something in the URL makes the computer block the site. Thank you for the list of resources, I will try them next week in class and hope they are not blocked. The second question has made me rethink why I have students use pictures. This is definitely something I will put more thought into in the future use of pictures. A class discussion with my seventh and eighth graders might produce some intriguing answers as well.

By: Shaun Wood

Shaun Wood — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:29:16 +0000

Thank you, you explained it in a way that actually makes sense.

By: Gilmar Mattos

Gilmar Mattos — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:14:45 +0000

Great post indeed – very informative. I’ll certainly share it with my colleagues as we have just started using webtools more and more so it is a must to get to know what can and can’t be done when it comes to copyright.

By: Look what I found! 12/23/2008 | a whole new dianne

Look what I found! 12/23/2008 | a whole new dianne — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:37:41 +0000

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