Just finding a picture via Google is not legal you need to use media you have permission to use and credit the creator if that is required. This can be used as an opportunity to talk about copyright, digital literacy and more.
Flickr
Flickr: The Commons A collection of photographs with “no known copyright restrictions”
The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world’s public photography archives…
Flickr has many images that can be used, you need to use the advanced search and pay attention to the conditions of use. Many images can be used if attribution is given and some can be edited. This attribution is difficult for younger pupils (and can be tricky for adults) There are many Web sites that provide the text needed to attribute. I’ve made a flickr CC search toy which allows pupils to ‘stamp’ the attribution onto the images and download the ‘stamped’ copy, this is easier than copying the image and the attribution and using them together. The image at the top of this post is an example.
The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
Katie Christo’s Wiki
Always wondered where to find great copy”right” photos, images, and clip art? Interested in primary source images and how to use them in your classroom? Come join us to learn all about the free image resources out there for you to use in your classroom!
Incompetech Royalty Free Music
Royalty Free Music This is a very extensive collection of music that can be used for school projects, videos, podcasts etc if you give credit. There is a lot of music very suitable for video work organised into genre.
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.
You need to be aware of the conditions of use for these audio files as it varys
The Morgue File
This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. This is the world wide web’s morguefile.
free to use not attribution needed.
YouTube
EDU – YouTube
YouTube some videos may be under Creative Commons licence and can be used for editing.
YouTube some videos may be under Creative Commons licence and can be used for editing.
Pics4Learning
Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting.
You need to attribute the photos to use them, citation is clearly shown, for example:
Wonderly, Bernice. img_1014.jpg. December 22, 2012. Pics4Learning. 11 Mar 2013 <http://pics.tech4learning.com>
from: sleeping boston terrier
Scran
Scran is a charitable learning resource base with over 360,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media.
Copyright for Scran material is a litte more complex than some of the other sites listed. Much of the material is free to use in schools or on intranets but should not be used on public Web sites (eg school sites) or blogs.
NEN Gallery
IMPORTANT NOTICE: All the resources in this Gallery have been provided freely for Educational use only. These ARE NOT copyright free: the copyright in the resource is retained by the resource owner and any commercial use is explicitly excluded.
50+Ways – StoryMedia
50+Ways – StoryMedia Finding Media for digital storytelling
the media files you use in your story have to be ones that are licensed or shared with permission to re-use— this is the only way you can safely then share your new creation knowing it does not contain any copyrighted material plus it is just darn human courtesy to give credit where creation came from. So just finding a picture via Google is not satisfactory. For each media file you find, as you search, be sure to document the source by title and URL and find a person or organization to give credit.Below you will find a rather extensive list of sites where you can find and use media that are licensed for you to do so or are in the public domain.
Even More
Most of these links are from: Pinboard: bookmarks for johnjohnston tagged ‘creativecommons’ which is updated when I find new sources and contains some more useful links.
