In recent years, a new option has become available to make finding and publishing other people’s material – and sharing what you create yourself – easier: It is called Creative Commons. Find out about Creative Commons by watching Wanna Work Together?
Flickr is a website used primarily for storing and sharing photos. You can use this site to find pictures on any topic. It includes photos taken by individuals as well as from important museums and archives like the Library of Congress. If you open an account, you can also use this site to upload pictures you’ve taken and then you can share them with your family your friends or the whole world.
Now your ready to start finding photos and images. Flickr includes many Creative Commons images, as well as many that are copyrighted. If you want to publish an image you find at Flickr on your blog, be sure to search for images with Creative Commons licenses. Hint: To find images with Creative Commons licenses, go to the Advanced Search screen, and look for those images you can modify.
and click Search. Or, you will probably find it much easier to use the Flickrcc site, which searches just Creative Commons-licensed images on the Flickr site for you.
When you publish one of these images, be sure to give credit by citing and linking to the url of the page where the photo appears. Look for the word “attribution” on the Flickrcc site. Copy that address and paste it under the photo in your post and make it a hyperlink. Remember, it’s very important to give credit to the creator of the original image.
Recently, Creative Commons has developed a way of using multiple sites to find images that you can modify adapt or build upon. Try the CC search.
Google has recently developed a way to select images based on their usage rights. To test this out, search for an image and when the results come up, click on search tools and then click on usage rights. You will want to select those images for noncommercial reuse with modification for your book trailer assignment. See my sample search below.
Library subscription databases also contain multimedia. Try Discovery Education (login with your Novell login). Notice that the databases provide MLA citation information.
For your blog posting:
- Make up two questions about copyright, public domain and fair use (hint, these should be from the content of the video A Fair(y) Use Tale).
- Answer the two questions you made up.
- What is a Creative Commons license and why is it important for us?
- Using Flickr, Flickrcc or CC Search, Google Image Search to find at least two Creative Commons images you might use in your upcoming book trailer and add them, along with a credit link (in MLA format), to this blog posting. Also tell us why you chose these images and how they relate to the book you are reading (see my example below).
- Try Discovery Education or another of the subscription databases to find an image you might use in your book trailer. Add the image, the MLA citation and an explanation of how it relates to your book.
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Origami birds tree mobile opposite @mildbunch HQ". 15 Aug. 2011.Flickr. Yahoo. n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2016. ><http://www.flickr.com/photos/jontangerine/6045804830/in/photostream/>.
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In the book I read for my last book trailer, the character Sam makes origami birds to hang from his ceiling for every special moment he spends with Grace.“..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands” ― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
Format for photograph originally posted on the web:
Photographer's Name. Title of Photograph. Date Photo Taken if Available. Web Site Title. Web Site Publisher, Date Posted. Web. Date of Access. <URL>.
