You know you want one.
This image may surprise, annoy, confuse, entertain, anger (?), or delight you, but no matter how you feel about it, it does make you think or feel something and it certainly has your attention. That’s why images are so powerful.
And that’s why you add them to your course content. And that’s wonderful , but only if you:
1) Use appropriate sources and 2) Attribute properly.
Here is how you can find and attribute content appropriately for your materials:
Searching Creative Commons
- Go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
- Select Licenses from the top menu and then
- Choose “Find licensed content”
- You will be taken to a search page where you can enter text describing what you are looking for and how you want to use it ( for commercial purposes and/or to modify, adapt or build upon.)
- You can also select your source location. I find awesome images on Flick(er?) (and sometimes Google Images).
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- Once you find what you are looking for you must attribute (or credit) it if you are going to use it.
Attributing Creative Commons Works
It’s pretty straightforward. Attribution should include four things:
- Title
- Author – typically you add a hyperlink to the author’s page, if there is one
- Source – typically you add a hyperlink to the image page
- License
In the search above, I was looking for an image of a classroom. I found one I liked
so my attribution will look like this:
“Day 240: Classroom in Korea” by Cali4beach is licensed under CC BY 4.0
(what might this attribution look like on a powerpoint slide for example?)
I am certainly no lawyer or expert on licensing but OSU University Libraries Copyright Resource Center knows their stuff and so does Creative Commons. I have also put some great links in the Web Resources section on the left.
Where do you get your images from? Share in the comments below!
“Unicorn Bicycle” by Ariel Grimm is licensed under CC BY 4.0
“Kittens!” by Nicolas Suzor is licensed (for modification) under CC BY 4.0
