Wikis (day 2)
1. Creative Commons
As creators and educators it is great to be able to share what we have made with others and to have our students be able to share as well. We need to make sure we and they have used media and resources that have copyright permission and we should model this. If we use Creative Commons and or Public Domain materials we are OK to share.
On the Creative Commons website there is information about creative commons licensing and limited search sites (limited to creative commons materials) on common places we might look for media such as Google, Yahoo, and Flickr. Many of the software we use like Word, Power point, Note book software have clip art we can use. It is also wonderful to be able to use your own photos and videos.
The photo sharing site Flickr has a section dedicated to Flickr creative commons photos with various levels of permissions granted in advance.
- "Attribution" type of permission means that a photographer simply wants to be credited for the photo.
- "Non-Commercial" means the photo cannot be used for commerical gain.
- "Non-Derivative" means that the photographer does not want the picture changed.
Flickr's Commons, a collection of historical public photos which invites tagging by viewers, is an excellent resource for Social Studies and History.
Paul's UDL4all wiki link to Copyright Issues
2. Where to find images CC images (just a few of the locations)
Graphics Resources
Photos in the public domain and government sites have no copyright restrictions at all.
Wikipedia
NASA Images
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Digitial Library System
Pics4Learning
- Good source of well organized copyright-friendly photos and graphics
Freebyte's Links to Free Clipart and Images
Comp Fight
- Versatile search engine for finding Creative Commons images on Flckr
- search by tags or by all text
- search only for images licensed under Creative Commons, or not
- search for originals to find high quality images
- "Safe Search" option
Creative Commons Search
- Find images licensed under the Creative Commons in Flickr, Google, Yahoo, or BlipTV (for video)
Wikimedia Commons
(part of the Wikipedia family)
When you search on Google, you can narrow your search to Images by clicking the Images Tab. Once the search results are displayed, you can further narrow your search by clicking the Advanced button and using the controls at the side of the page to select picture size and type (news, face, clip art, line drawing, photo). Just be aware that many of these images will be copyrighted.
Freebyte's Guide to Free Graphics Software
Great Text Graphics Tool
3. Adding images and Resizing them
HOW TO - Insert an Image (PBworks wiki)
- In the side bar > Under insert links select the 'Images and files' tab
- Click Upload files
- Select the image (or file)
- Click open
- Once the image appears in the upload list
- Place your cursor where you would like to insert the image
- Click on the image of file that you just up loaded
What does Image Resolution, Size, and Compression really mean?
Free image optimizer/ compressor
Free image optimizer/ compressor
Convenient Online Image Editing with Picnik
- To help make your images work where you want to use them
4. Vod Pod
Jane's Vod Pod
5. Finding Videos
http://www.youtube.com/ http://www.teachertube.com/ http://video.google.ca
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(For Video licensed under Creative Commons)
visual online search tool
*(have to check multimedia to make sure it is cc before using it)
Video upload site
6. Adding videos to PBworks Wiki Video Link
Other how to videos for PB works
Steps to embed video
1)Log in, go to Edit
2) Click Insert Plugin 
3) Chose Video & photo --> youtube video/ teachertube video
4) Copy and paste the embed code from your selected video into the blank box
5) Click next to preview and then Finish!
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