Crediting Copyrighted Photography

This week we learned about different ways to do an image search on the web. Before, I focused mostly on google image search when I needed visuals for projects and PowerPoints. I have used photo hosting websites such as Webshots, but never really thought to use it as a search engine for different pictures. Also, I never really knew how to cite the source for images acquired from an online source. Usually, I included only the URL and the date the image was found. Now, if a student were to come to me and ask how to find and cite an image, I would have a clear answer for them. I would help them use a image hosting site such as flickr to search for and select an appropriate image. I would then show them how to check if it is legal to use and also how to cite an attribution appropriately using the source(HTML), author and license type.

We also learned how to use Creative Commons to manage the copyrights on our own images. I was especially interested in this as I post many pictures from some of my previous travels. I learned how to allow others to use my work as long as it is cited.

Much like the other websites and programs we have explored, the content of the pictures may be an issue. Safety of the students online is definitely something to think about. I also think that the use of a website such as flickr would be very useful in the classroom for sharing photographs that would be useful to the students, parents, colleagues, and othere days. I feel like it may be useful to display examples of display boards and lessons also. This would help myself as the teacher also. In this way I could document boards or lessons that I have designed and liked. These would then be saved for easy access anywhere should I want or choose to use those ideas in the future.


Attribution:

Original Image: "Crayola Lincoln Logs"
URL: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/404321726_1dd8836d14_m.jpg
By: laffy4k

Released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License
URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en