Week 6: Adding Images

Photo Attribution:

Original image: "Erickson Hall"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/211/521366682_a6d488c52e_m.jpg
by: Joe Freidhoff

Released under an Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/


Here's the scenario for this week. Imagine you are at your field placement this week and a student asks you for help. She wants to find an image that she can use in a presentation she's creating. Generally, she has two questions. First, where do I go to find images to use? Second, what do I need to do to be sure I've given the creator of the image proper credit?

You know what you usually do when you need to get an image, but you aren't sure its what you should be recommending to students. You tell the student you will do some research on it and that the next time you meet, you'll be able to give her a credible answer.

For this week then, complete the following tasks:

Becoming Informed:

1. Creative Commons (CC) has some great resources to help you better understand copyright and the Internet. One of the nice aspects of their resources is that they can be shared with students. Check out the following movies and comics by them:
1. Wanna Work Together
2. Get Creative
3. Sharing Creative Works
4. How it Works
   
2. Once you've reviewed CC, it should be clear that you have four options for using a work.
   
1. Claim Fair Use.
2. Ask author for permission.
   
3. Use CC licensed work according to permissions outlined.
4. Use your own original work.

Locating Work:

1. To search for CC-licensed images, you can try out the following sites:
1. FlickrCC
2. Creative Commons Search

Giving Credit:

1. According to CC license, there are several specific steps you need to take when giving credit. Check out the Erickson Hall image above to see what these steps would look like when done.

Your Own Works:

1. When you can, it's often a great idea to you use images that you have taken. There are several photo hosting sites that allow you to share your images with others.
1. Flickr
2. PicasaWeb
3. Photobucket
2. Because these images are on the web, it makes it easy to add multiple images to your website or blog. One of the major advantages of putting images into your web pages using one of these applications is that you can easily change the images without needing to change the format of your pages. I've mocked up examples of each of these so you can see what they might look like in your portfolio.
1. Flickr Badge (HTML) - Flickr images only
   
2. Flickr Flash Badge - Flickr images only
   
3. Flickriver - Flickr images only
   
4. PicasaWeb slideshow - PicasaWeb images only
   
5. Slideoo - Flickr only
   
6. Slide - Flickr, Photobucket and image urls
   

Weekly Gallery Projects:

1. Add a CC license to your blog. If you would like to reserve all rights for your blog/portfolio, you can remove it once I've been able to grade it. Here is a link that explains how to add the license to your blog.
2. Create an account at an online photo-hosting sites. Consider this a professional account that you will use to host images for your blog/website. In the future, it might even have images of students' work that you could share with parents.
3. Create a page in your portfolio that utilizes the badges or slideshow tools I showcased above. This page could be a revision of a page you have already created or it could be a page you haven't completed yet. Aim to have at least five images in your badge or slideshow. Link this page of your portfolio to the Wiki Gallery under the "Photos" column.

Weekly Blog

1. Find a CC image using FlickrCC or CC Search and add it properly to a post on your blog. Here is a jing video to show you how to do this. In this post,
1. Write about what you would have suggested to the student in the scenario BEFORE this week's lesson. (Where would you have had her look for images and what would you have told her to do to cite the image source?)
   
2. Based on what you've learned this week, what would you recommend to her now?

Here is a checklist for the week.

For next week, we will be getting into VoiceThread. VoiceThread offers a free general account that you can use, but there are a few restrictions on how many VTs you can create (and some other things, too). They do however, allow a free upgrade to their Professional account if you are a K-12 educator. I wrote them and asked if pre-service teachers could also qualify for the professional educator accounts. They granted us permission. If you want the educator account, when you sign up for it, you will need to use your msu email addresses and list my email as the school contact (freidhof@msu.edu). I recommend that you take time this week setting up your account so that when we start digital storytelling next week you are all ready to go.

Cheers,

Joe