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Creative Commons Image Search

Steve Beard — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:12:44 +0000

At the last secondary ICT subject leader meeting we discussed copyright and that many students and teachers use photographs they find using Google Image search. We discussed the legalities of this and I recommended the use of Flickr Advanced Search, this allows you to search for creative commons images.

Yahoo, who own Flickr, have taken included this and many other options into their Image Search. These options include:

Size of image
Colour or Black & White
Site/Domain, you can select a suggested site or domain type e.g. .gov, .edu or flickr.com etc or you can enter the site/domain eg. .sch.uk or .ac.uk
Creative Commons Licence
Safe Search

I think these options really make this an excellent search engine for images, what do you reckon?

More on copyright

Steve Compton — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:09:40 +0000

Whilst browsing some sites related to film-making I came across one or two more bits on copyright including an interesting document presented as a comic . The comic is American but raises many of the issues that we face in the UK. Different formats of the comic can be found here . The Creative Commons website is also worth a visit especially as it has a search facility that allows users to search a variety of repositories and search engines such as Google and Flickr for images and content that have Creative Commons licences.

Plagiarism advice

Andrea Dunn — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:09:19 +0000

Plagiarismadvice.org – This is a national body founded by JISC to provide advice on plagiarism. It includes tip sheets on avoiding plagiarism, discussion as to why pupils do plagiarise and how to avoid it. The website can be found at www.jiscpas.ac.uk . Ofqual are developing guidance on plagiarism and developing information literacy skills in using electronic sources. If anyone has any examples of god practice they would like to share or would like to contribute to the project in any way, contact Anne Flood, plagiarismadvice.org Research Assistant – here that help to untangle the issues surrounding copyright. It can be a minefield, but raising the issue with colleagues and students might raise a few eyebrows and give a starting point for considering best practice.

Confused about copyright?

Dale — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:39:37 +0000

Finding images got so much easier when digital images were put onto the Internet. Photographers could share their pictures and sell them online, families could share their photos easily and quickly freely. But using copyrighted images in public work is not only unethical (photographers need to be paid too, y’know), it’s illegal. How is the distinction drawn between free-to-use and copyrighted images? Many people find it difficult to identify whether they can use an image or not.

The Internet for Image Searching resource from TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images – part of JISC) is an online tutorial that informs the reader on how to search for copyright-cleared images. Although aimed at HE/FE, it would be an excellent resouce to use for many teachers and KS4 students needing guidance on the legal use of images in their work.