Copyright Free Images
It is advantageous for students to learn early on in their education that the vast quantity of images that they come across on the internet are not necessarily okay (or even legal) for them to use. This is an area that many educators do not address. There are a number of sources of images available to the public that can provide copyright free images, or images that are usable but with the requirement that attribution details are provided to credit the original creator or publisher. In addition to this, these sites can be much less risky than a Google image search (you never know what you are going to get when you type in a search via Google!). Here are a few suggestions and tips.
- - pixabay.com- this is one of my very favourite sites to use images from. All of the images that are cataloged on this site are free to use and are in the public domain as well, which means that no attribution at all is required.
- -https://www.flickr.com/commons- flickr.com is a public photo archive site. The best way to ensure that the images that you are using from this source are in fact okay to use, is to filter your search by heading to 'The Commons' area under the 'Explore Tab.' Many of the images that you get from this area of the site will be free to use, but they usually do require that attribution to the creator be provided, which is not hard to do either.
- -Wikimedia Commons- this is an image, video and sound archive with media that are either free to use because they are within the public domain, or they can be used with attribution provided to credit the original creator
- - Google image search- if you are relying on a Google image search to gather images, there is a way to filter your search to obtain copyright free images as well. When you conduct your search, you should see a tool bar like the one that you see below here. Click on the 'Search tools' button and the additional tool bar seen below will also appear.
If you then click on the 'Usage rights' button, a drop down menu will appear and you can then filter your search accordingly by clicking on the type of usage rights you would like to conduct your search within.
Copyright Free Music & Sound Clips
If you are looking for copyright free music and sound clips, this is a free and user friendly site that can provide you with quality sound accompaniments for your media creations.
audioblocks.com
audioblocks.com