Copyright-Free+Materials

**Copyright-Free Materials**

Everyone needs to be careful when creating materials for the classroom. We should be modeling legal and ethical responsibility to our students. This includes using only copyright-free materials such as images and sounds. Let's provide each other with sites we have found to help us to just that!

**Why does it matter?** media type="custom" key="7757431" width="80" height="80"
 * We need to set the example for our students. Violation of copyright is very serious.
 * View this slide show and take special note of slides 38-41.

**How can we be more proactive?**
 * Visit the Creative Commons website. The organization is a **nonprofit** corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.


 * Visit the website [|Copyright Education] to learn some copyright basics and have some of your specific questions answered.


 * When using Google to search for images and other materials, do an **Advanced Search**. Look for the option "Usage Rights" and select the appropriate license.



**Here are some websites that offer copyright-free materials!**

//David Kapuler// http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=4164
 * //From the article// 15 Sites for Finding Images and Clip Art for Education **
 * 1) [|3D Toad]- A innovative site with interactive 360-degree rotatable images.
 * 2) [|Behold]- A nice search engine to use with adult supervision for finding images on Flickr.
 * 3) [|Find Icons]- A great site for finding free icons to use in the classroom.
 * 4) [|FreeFoto]- A wonderful site for 1000s of free photos that can be used by students.
 * 5) [|FreePhotoBank]- A excellent site for free stock photos.
 * 6) [|Google Images]- A great way to search for images as long as the safe search filter is turned on.
 * 7) [|humanline]- A new site for teachers and students for free images for art, history, science, etc.
 * 8) [|ookaboo]- A great way to search for free stock photos on a wide variety of subjects.
 * 9) [|OpenClipArt-] A nice site for free clip art.
 * 10) [|Pics4Learning]- One of the most popular image sites for finding images for education.
 * 11) [|School Clip Art]- Doesn't get much better then this for free clip art for students and teachers.
 * 12) [|Veezzle]- A free stock photo search engine and community.
 * 13) [|Visual Dictionary]- Not only a great place to find educational photos, but also offers descriptions and more.

**Graphics** [] [] [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[] <span class="bodytext" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|http://wylio.com/] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|http://pics4learning.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|http://fotopedia.com]

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Citations <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Grades 1-6]