New Google Image search tool for quickly locating images licensed for reuse

Being a good netizen means giving credit to resources we find and use on the web. Sometimes this can be a tricky and time consuming process. Fortunately, Google Images has recently updated the search tools feature to make finding Creative Commons licensed photos more friendly.

To get started, begin a Google Image search and locate the Search Tools selector.

Next, click on the Usage Rights selector.

Choose the reuse license that best fits your needs. In most cases this will be "labeled for reuse" unless you plan to modify the image or use the image in a business setting. 

The Usage Rights selector filters the images so that you are only browsing images that you have permission to reuse with the expectation that you will properly cite the image wherever it is used.Here's an example.

Mars Exploration Rover by NASA is licensed under public domain

I'll be honest. Proper citation takes more time than just copy and paste, but it is a skill that we need to model as teachers and teach
to our students. And at least it is getting easier to find these images in the first place.

Finally, there are some tools available to help automate the citation process if you use the Chrome Browser and are searching for Creative Commons images on Flickr. It may also be helpful to know that the Research Tool in Google Drive has a similar filtering option for finding Creative Commons licensed images.

Why I'm excited about ImageCodr.org for schools - #scc21c

Update: Check out this great Creative Commons Attribution Helper Chrome Extension

Copyright, Creative Commons, Fair Use? As educators we should be familiar with these terms as well as our obligations to use and properly cite the work of other individuals. But in the flury of getting lessons together or beating out another presentation it can be extremely difficult to credit others in this age of instant digital media, not to mention helping our students do the same.

  by  karindalziel 

Thankfully, a new tool has arrived that helps to streamline the proper citation of creative commons images - ImageCoder.org. What ImageCoder does is help you find images licensed under the various creative commons licenses on Flickr, presents you with a concise overview of what the license does and does not allow, and then provides you with an embeddable html code that properly cites the image for your blog or website.

Here's a screenshot of the license information and embed code for the image above.

Unfortunately, this won't work on Word documents or PowerPoint but would great for classroom and student websites or blogs. 

Thanks to Richard Byrne and his fantastic blog for pointing me to this great new resource!

Trying out the New Google Docs real time editing (with everyone!)

This afternoon Alec Couros (@courosa) tweeted out an invite to play with the new Google Docs interface and test the real time editing features.  You can see the results by clicking here.

In a very short amount of time more than 50 people had joined the doc.  Colored editing flags skittered about as people added thoughts and hellos.  The new commenting feature helped highlight suggestions and facilitated side conversations ranging from how to turn the new features on and changing the anonymous label to your user name to a discussion about ownership rights, fair use and creative commons.  Hours later the document is continuing to morph.  Eventually, it will be trashed by some random passerby but the revision history may rectify any damage.

But the best part was seeing a Google Doc become a platform for a spontaneous act of sharing. Yes, this is the strange love child of Google Wave and Etherpad, and yes, some of the old features are missing and the new ones are a bit raw, but I like it!  Thanks to all who participated.  I plan to embed a screen capture of the live editing that I took this afternoon, so check back tomorrow.  And take a look.  The directions for getting started are currently part of the doc, at least for now.

Here's another resource in case the directions get deleted.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-try-new-google-docs-apps.html

Updated:

Digital Citizenship

Digital Citizenship - Jason Ohler

So I'm throwing my notes out to the ether in raw form.  Apologies for the errors, but I'll never get this blogging thing down if I wait for perfection. 

   Copyright is not the primary issue

• redifining community


• study what we use - with any tech or technique we should look at the impact, the value the cost


• articulate our fears


• write a new story

Every technology connects and disconnects

• we fail to see the disconnect and understand the critical effects of any tech


• What would the warning label be on the tech we adopt, how does it affect us socially, personally, physically.  Shine a flashlight the tools and see the scope of their impact.

Why are we uncomfortable with tech.

• It's ubiquitous


• it's invasive


• it's rapidly changing


• it's resocializing


• sovereignty - who controls whom


• technology is determining human endeavor - if you have the internet you will surf, if you have a car you will drive whether we need to or not.

We can have what we want

• If you can have what we want we can have the school we want
  
  


• It's not about the gear the it's about the story, what is the story we want to tell about our schools.  We have to engage proactively.

What's new

• Disocciated action (place) many activities independent of where we are physcially


• leveraged action (power) we can use a tool without seeing the effect


• generalized action (anyone) ownership rights, copy right, asking the open ended questions about our digital actions

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What is our mantra?  not our mission statement

Be a de"tech"tive

Ask the questions

investigate, analyze, evaluate, and recommend.