John Connell: The Blog

Look­ing for copyright-free images? Judy O’Connell has posted a great list of sources for you to browse through. As Judy notes:

“It’ not just about copy­right — its about being prac­ti­cal, and show­ing stu­dents the won­der­ful world of pos­si­bil­i­ties beyond Google images or tak­ing any­thing they find that is not actu­ally in the pub­lic domain — a vital point as more stu­dents and teach­ers move into online envi­ron­ments of blogs, wikis and more.“

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§ 4 Responses to Beyond Google Images"

• John says:

  November 14, 2007 at 11:28 pm

  Hi John,
  It is a really inter­est­ing expe­ri­ence try­ing to explain to 10 year olds the con­cept of shar­ing and only using pic­tures with per­mis­sion. Espe­cially ones who think pirate is a kind of early release dvd;-)
  I try to get my blog­gers to attribute cc images or ones released for edu. They find it dif­fi­cult to find the license details on say wikipedia, I hope their I \‘got this pic­ture from wikipedia\’ will been seen as being in the spirit of attri­bu­tion if not legally cor­rect.
  Unfor­tu­nately there are still a lot of teach­ers who thing google images is a appro­pri­ate source of images.

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• John Connell says:

  November 15, 2007 at 11:03 am

  Ease of use wins over appro­pri­ate­ness, I guess, John. It’s an inter­est­ing issue, how we can explain the intri­ca­cies of copy­right to young children.

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• Rachel Goldstein says:

  November 20, 2007 at 7:06 pm

  Great post — here is another list of free stock pho­tog­ra­phy … http://allgraphicdesign.com/graphicsblog/2007/09/16/huge-list-of-free-stock-photos-on-the-net/

  Thanks..Rachel

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• John Connell says:

  November 21, 2007 at 12:02 am

  Thanks, Rachel — the more the mer­rier!
  John

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