Get+Media

=STEP 2: Finding Photos to Use For Workshop Activities=

//***Thanks to CogDogRoo**// Now here is a our rule-** the media files you use in your story have to be ones that are licensed or shared with permission to re-use; this is the only way you can safely then share your new creation knowing it does not contain any copyrighted material. So just finding a picture via Google is not satisfactory. For each media file you find, document the source by title and URL and find a person or organization to use to give credit.
 * Anyone can poke around on the web or use Google to find images, but the re-use of them is highly questionable as a practice. For this workshop, you are asked to use only images that have been [|Creative Commons] licensed with permission for reuse and/or for modification. This page is provided with suggestions on how to find images.**

For any image you use, keep a record (in a text file or even on paper) of information for each image:
 * The URL where the image was found
 * The name of the photographer (in flickr this might be the account name)
 * The file name (if you download it-- flickr creates cryptic names)
 * optional- the title of the image

This info will/should be used when giving credit in your re-use of an image.

1. flickr Creative Commons Search
http://flickr.com/creativecommons Keyword search on all photos in flickr that are creative commons licensed. Click the "more..." link in each license category to seatch. You have to know which kind of license to pursue- for any exercise, where we might need to download a copy and make changes to it, use either [|Attribution], [|Attribution-Non-Commercial], [|Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike], or [|Attribution-ShareAlike License]. If you are just going to use an image or post a blog entry directly form flickr, any category will do- i tend to use the one with the most images -- [|Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike].

Let's say I was looking for an image to represent joy or being happy- I might try the [|Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike search on the word happiness].Not bad, some images of smiling kids, etc.

Initial search results are ordered by "relevance" meaning closest match to your keywords (it searches titles of photos, the text of captions, and any tags associated with images).

It is sometimes worth clicking the link for "more interesting" which weights the results by how many comments a photo has and how many times it has been favorited. Now compare the results on my [|search for happiness by re-ordering results by interesting].

This image on the right, is very powerful! Credit goes to flickr user 油姬 for.

2. flickrlill
http://flickrlilli.org.uk/ While the flickr search produces great results, having to select a license before a search is confusing and there are 6 difference search forms to choose from!- flickrlilli is site where you can do all of your searching of flickr creative commons photos form a single web form. It is a much easier way to search.

3. flickrCC
http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/ This site is best used when you plan to make a copy or even edit a creative licensed flickr image. By checking the "for editing" box, it enables you to search for images you can modify. the flickrCC site has a number of tools you can use on the site to edit/modify the photo, and then optionally save it back to your own flickr account.

My search for happiness here provides results: Clicking any of the icons provides the information about the image. Use the links below the image to select a size that you will use in the next screen to when you click "Edit Image". Editing tools allow you to crop and image, add text, draw lines and borders. The nice feature of this tool is that it automatically embeds the credit line into the image if you click the "Add Attribution" button.

The tools are not the easiest to use, but when you are done, or if you just want to save it, be sure to right/apple click the image, and select "save image as" from the contextual menu. Here is what I did for one images:



Multiple Media Types

 * Common Content http://commoncontent.org/
 * Ourmedia http://ourmedia.org/
 * Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/
 * Get Media http://www.spinxpress.com/getmedia

Images

 * ccSalon Australia- flickr group of photographers who license photos http://www.flickr.com/groups/ccsalon
 * Youraustralia - cc licensed landscape images http://www.youraustralia.eu/
 * BioMed Image Archive - medical, dental, and veterinary images for use in learning http://www.brisbio.ac.uk/
 * Free Images - 2500 free stock images http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
 * FreeFoto - over 100,000 images free for online use http://www.freefoto.com/
 * Great Images In NASA http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/
 * Internet Pathology Lab for Education - medical images & diagrams http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/webpath.html
 * morgueFiles - photos "freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects" [|http://www.morguefile.com]
 * Open Photo Project - cc licensed photos http://openphoto.net/
 * Pixel Perfect Digital 5000+ user contributed images http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/free_stock_photos/
 * NOAA Photo Library - weather images http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/
 * Pictures from Old Books http://fromoldbooks.org/
 * Pics4Learning educational images http://www.pics4learning.com/
 * stock.xching - over 250,000 free stock photos [|http://www.sxc.hu/</]