Sakai: Images

Images

When adding images, you have to be careful about giving credit to the creator of images, unless an image is in the "public domain".

What is a Public Domain image?

• An image that is not just available to the public, but belongs to the public.
• It's been donated by the artist or its copyrights have expired or don't apply.
• The image below was donated by the photographer to the public, no strings attached.

Where can I find Public Domain images?

• Where can you find images you can easily add to your classes (without getting into trouble)? (Durham Tech Instructional Technologies Blog)

What if I can't find a Public Domain image? Try Creative Commons

• Creative Commons is an organization that created tools (licenses) for artists, musicians, graphic designers, film-makers,

writers, and photographers to share their work.

• Why is this important? We can use their work! And we can license our work, and our students can license their work.

How do you use Creative Commons?

• Here's the in-depth instructions for using Creative Commons
• Here's the short-cut to finding Creative Commons images, but you have to give credit to artists, at a minimum