images on this website
The majority of images which appear on slide shows at the top of pages on this were all selected from Pixabay.com. Via download provided Images on Pixabay, users are bound to Creative Commons Deed CC0. “The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighbouring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission” (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en ).
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as teachers using digital resources, what do you need to know?
Content including images, text and audio may be subject to copyright and at times it can be hard to find the copyright information associated with a particular source and/or to what extent they can be edited. So what can you do? It is a good idea to become familiar with Creative commons.
There are also a range of online sites that contain copy right free images and or audio that you can use and integrate within prayer. Here are a few:
images
Pixabay.com
Via download provided Images on Pixabay are bound to Creative Commons Deed CC0. To the extent possible under law, uploaders of Pixabay have waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to these Images. You are free to adapt and use the Images for commercial purposes without attributing the original author or source. UNsplash
More precisely, Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. |
NASA free pics
NASA content - images, audio, video, and computer files used in the rendition of 3-dimensional models, such as texture maps and polygon data in any format - generally are not copyrighted. You may use this material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits, computer graphical simulations and Internet Web pages. This general permission extends to personal Web pages. Photo Pin
Just search for any topic using the search box (e.g. "Kittens", "Flowers", etc.), preview the photo, and click "get photo" to download the photo as well as the proper attribution link.PhotoPin uses the Flickr API and searches creative commons photos to use. |
Google Advanced Image Search
Google Advanced Search enables you to search or filter by usage rights. For example, you can search via free to use or share, free to use or share even commercially, free to share or modify and free to share or modify even commercially. |
audio
Did you know that if you buy an original copy of a CD you can copy the CD onto your hard drive and change the format so that you can play it on your own personal device (ie your iPod, iPhone, mp3 player etc). You can share your music with family members who live in the same house as you but not your cousins, friends or anyone else. The copy right laws get even trickier when the source is being used for education. So what can you do? Firstly, buy original copies of music or download music from sites that you know you can without breaching copy right. Here are a few sites:
SoundBible.com
offers free sound clips for download in either wav or mp3 format. I like SoundBible.com because no ‘sign up’ or ‘log in’ is required. However, most importantly the sounds are completely royalty free, meaning you can use them commercially without paying a cent. |
Free Music Archive.org
Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright laws that were not designed for the digital era. These uses vary and are determined by the rights holders themselves so will will need to read the license. |
Jamendo.com
Jamendo offers free streaming and download of music published under Creative Commons licenses. On Jamendo, artists grant use of their music for private uses free of cost. |
video
"YouTube is the largest online video sharing platform in the world and the second most popular search engine in the US after Google. Google acquired YouTube in 2006. Over 72 hours of video content are uploaded onto YouTube every MINUTE" ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_-YG6FfpbwNCLiTooQpJvJ976dcn0XtwpWPRl0avrPY/edit). Did you know that the ownership of copy right belongs to the person who uploaded the video clip. However, it is the responsibility of the 'up loader' of the YouTube clip to make sure that their video isn't a breach of copyright. If you want to download someone's YouTube clip, you need to ask permission first. However, if you have a website, blog, wiki, weebly etc you can embed any YouTube clip without breaching copyright. You haven't downloaded the video, it is still playing though YouTube, just within your website.
Did you know there are also other video channels other than YouTube? Here are a few:
YouTube EDU
YouTube EDU provides educational videos for students of all ages. You can search a category and then narrow your search by selecting another sub category. |
YouTube Teachers
This site was created to help teachers leverage video to educate, engage and inspire their students. |