Sunday, March 17, 2019
Free and Safe Image Resources for Students and Teachers
How do your students know if they have permission to use someone else’s photos? Students need to understand copyright and how to find royalty-free images. This is important to be in alignment with the ISTE Standards for Students on digital citizenship.
It may seem like finding these images is an extra step, but just remember that as our students’ lives and school work move more into the digital realm, it is important that we, as educators, lead by example and show the ethical and appropriate ways to cite work and give credit where credit is due.
Below are just a few resources that we found.
Unsplash - free photos shared by photographers
Most photos here do not require being attributed, but Unsplash provides an easy to copy attribution for students to paste along with their photos.
Most photos here do not require being attributed, but Unsplash provides an easy to copy attribution for students to paste along with their photos.
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Pixabay – royalty free photos, illustrations, vectors and videos shared by the community. Pixabay also provides information on licenses, most do not need attribution.
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Pexels – stock photos shared by photographers. License information is available when you click on 'Info'.
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Flicker – creative commons – shared by others within different license types. Also has a safe search icon and you can filter by license type. This site uses Creative Commons icons to say whether or not photos need attribution. Click here for what the CC icons mean.
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You can filter images in Google by using an advanced search. Click on Tools>Usage Rights>and choose your license type. When using Google images, students should still visit the site the photo came from to download and access attribution information.
Most of the free images in Google will take you to the sites we listed above. This image of a cat comes from pexels.com
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