Creative Commons sites:
- Smithosonian Institution: Pros: Photos to embed with info. Cons: Only useful to embed and email to yourself.
- FlickerStorm. Pros: Tons of images, downloadable, Copy and paste, can put in iPhoto. Cons: Different license types. Not all is creative commons.
- World Book. Pros: Can create timelines with own photos, or CC photos. Cons: Hard to navigate, wordy.
- Soundzabound. Pros: Royalty free, download straight to iTunes. Cons: Not current and unfiltered.
- American Memory. Pros: Primary sources. Search by common core. Cons: Nothing below 4th, and not all of the content is spectacular. You may have to do too much to make it applicable for you to teach (labor intensive).
- Library of Congress Home Page. Pros: Links to all topics. Good links for articles, webcasts, etc. Cons: Hard to navigate, too much info (labor intensive).
- Open ImageBank. Pros: Photo search engine. All images free. Cons: Most categories have only a few images. Search is too narrow.
- Official Site of the US Air Force. Pros: Research on Air Force. Social Media connected. Cons: It's only about the Air Force.
- Culture Grams. Pros: Good photos and info. States and country specific. Fun slide shows. Create graphs and tables. Cons: Limited search options.
- FreeFoto.com. Pros: Very specific topics. Cons: Limited free photos.
- MorgueFile: Pros: Free photos. Can crop then link or imbed. Refine search. Includes info about image. Social media connected. Cons: Some ads.
- Pics4learning. Pros: Links for lesson plans with related images. Cons: Not many plans. The images were generic. Created in 1999 but never seemed to take off.
- NASA. Pros: Educator or students page. Tons of info on everything NASA - articles, podcasts, videos, interactives. Cons: Too much info available through search so you have to wade through a lot of info.
- Go to creativecommons.org, licenses, choose a license: http://creativecommons.org/choose/
- Decide if others can modify, use commercially, and where the license is valid.
- Fill in attribution information.
- Code is supplied to be attached to the picture.
- Paste code below your photo on your website in a custom html box.
- Purpose. Is it for education or non-profit? Are we transforming it? Are we giving proper credit?
- Nature. Is is published, factual, necessary for educational purposes?
- Amount. Are we using a small quantity and is it not the "heart" of the work?
- Effect. Are there only a few copies? Does the owner have it marketed? Are we taking away their sales?
- See checklist at http://louisville.edu/copyright/files/fair%20use-checklist-UofL.pdf
- See poster with guidelines at https://canyons.instructure.com/courses/793563/files/27220316/download?wrap=1
- Does not require student emails.
- Gives the teacher the ability to censor/moderate posts.
- Students have the ability to imbed media in posts.