SMART media

This term we're focusing on SMART media which involves anything related to images, movies, music, animation and so on.  One element I particularly wanted to unpack a bit more was image use. It's so easy to use any image without pausing and giving credit to the artist or even checking that it's ok to use it in the first place.  More often than not, images that we want to use are not licensed for sharing.  An easy way to see which images are available for free is to click 'tools' on a google image search and swap through the different licences.

Encouraging students to use the Explore tool in the Google Suite is a good idea because that automatically brings up only images that are in the public domain along with the associated reference.   There are of course a number of free image sites one that I often frequent is pixabay.com they have a good collection of both photos and vectors for free use.

I've complied a Creative Commons lesson resource to help students develop an understanding for what's ok and what's not ok to use online.  You're welcome to use and repurpose for your own classes and I'd love to hear how it worked for you or whether you developed it any further.