Copyright & Images

www.creativecommons.org

What is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons allows you share your knowledge and creativity with the world through media that you have created and with media licensed under Creative common licensing. Your courses must only include media (images, audio, video, text and animations) that are licensed to you or created originally by yourself.  Creative Commons as an entity develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. CC license chooser

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Copyright and image is depth with great examples

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Free & legal images:

There are web spaces that host legal images that you may consider including in your courses. These are listed below.  Please be careful to read the licensing details at each site.

Morguefile offers a wealth of photographs that a teacher could insert into their worksheets, web spaces or other media.  The conditions listed at the website are quite open.

Pics4Learning is a copyright-free image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning is a collection of thousands of images that have been donated by the general community including students and teachers.

At Icon Finder, a materials developer can locate icons for use in their projects.  Costs vary, of course, but there are enough free icons to get through the simple worksheets or presentations that teachers encounter on a frequent basis.   There are four filtering options for each search: icons to display; size of icons; licensing; …

OpenClipArt is a necessary element in many teacher website or worksheets. This site provides teacher developers over 35,00 free and usable clip art in logical categories.