Free-to-use Media for the Classroom

Kyla Cook today asked me for help finding clip art for her students. Early this year I posted a long list of helpful links on my TTT page: http://www.usd452.org/staff/jjanes/ttf.htm

Scroll down to the heading: Open Source Solutions, aka Good N' Free. Under there you will find many links for copyright-free clip art, photos and other media such as audio, video and software. My top two favorite graphics links there are:

Public Domain Clipart (photos and clip art) optimized for word processors
EXCELLENT for clip art
My Favorite - Look at top of index page for SEARCH link.

Wikipedia:Public domain image resources
Need a photo?
Each article usually has an accompanying photo or graphic, most being already in the public domain. But you need to CHECK to make sure. The easiest way is to look at the bottom of each image. Is there any information about its copyright status? If not - CLICK - on the image. It will take you to its full size page, if a larger original image exists and there, at the bottom, you will see the copyright information.

The idea behind "Good N' Free" is twofold:
1) Everything is free. Model ethical computer behavior - Stop using and/or letting your students use google images. It's great that we teach them how to do searches, but let's teach them how to do ethical searches and not infringe on anyone's copyright in the process.
2) Find GOOD resources. A few years ago it was difficult to find quality content. It no longer is.

If you can make the Technology Training Day meeting this Wednesday at 3:45 p.m. in my room, we will explore this topic in more detail.