Trish's Tech Tips
Using Copyright-Free Images
It is very important to teach students about copyright and the internet. Students (and teachers) are in the bad habit of searching for images on Google and then copy and pasting the pictures into their document without any regard for copyright.
Just because an image is on the internet, does not mean you can use it however you would like to use it. Here are some websites that offer copyright-free images. Please direct your students to these sites when needing images. Links to all of these are found on the MVHS Library website.
Here's a quick refresher on why we shouldn't use images that have copyright
Great royalty free image websites
Pixabay--Over 300,000 free photos, vectors and art illustrations
Finding free images of high quality is a tedious task - due to copyright issues, attribution requirements, or simply the lack of quality. This inspired us to create Pixabay - a repository for stunning public domain pictures. Your source for free vectors, free drawings and free photos. You can use any Pixabay image without attribution in digital and printed form, even for commercial applications.
Everystockphoto
We are a search engine for free photos. These come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.
Openclipart
Pics4Learning
Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos & images for classrooms, multimedia projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting.
flickr Commons
The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives.
The Public Domain
The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to promoting and celebrating the public domain in all its richness and variety.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone.
National Park Service
The National Park Service offers a search engine of multimedia files that are copyright free and may be used as you would like.
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