Digital Images

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Creative Commons

(1) The issue of Copy Right

(2) Creative Commons

A. What is Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
Check out the following movies and comics

1. Wanna Work Together
2. Get Creative
3. Sharing Creative Works
4. How it Works

B. Types of License (can be used in combinations)


C. Search CC licensed work

• Creative Commons Search
• FlickrCC

D. Give credit to others' work


Photo Attribution:
Original image: "Erickson Hall"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/211/521366682_a6d488c52e_m.jpg
by: Joe Freidhoff
Released under an Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>

E. License your own work

• Add a Creative Commons license to your website/blog
• Add a Creative Commons license to your Flickr photos
• Posting your licensed images at Flickr

Discussion

Look at the example on how a teacher is using digital images in her classroom.
(You will also find this specific example: Jane Goodall's Camp and the Classroom Displays Blog from the above link.)
Discuss the following two questions:

• How does the teacher use digital images? What are your reactions (good use? bad use?)?
• What are other possible ways of using digital images in your classroom?
• What are some of the concerns of using digital images in the classroom?

Lab Section

1. Get Familiar with Creative Commons

• Find a CC image using __FlickrCC__ or CC Search and add it properly to a post on your blog. Here is a jing video to show you how to do this.
  
• Add a Creative Commons license to your blog

2. Store, Publish and Share Pictures

(1) Create an account at Flickr. Consider this a professional account that you will use to host images for your blog/website. In the future, it might even have images of students' work that you could share with parents.

(2) Try these things in Flickr

• Upload some of your photos
• Tag the photos
• Change the publicity of the photos
• Add notes to your photos;
• Add your photos to Sets;
• Comment and Add notes to others’ photos
• Add a creative Commons license to your Flickr photos

3. Having Fun with Your Pictures

(1) Editing Images

• Desktop Photo Editor: Gimp is a free Windows based software that allows you to do many of the same things as Photoshop
• Online Photo Editor: Fauxto has many of the features of Photoshop and is quite extensive for a free online editor.

(2) Create Effects

• dumpr - fun with your photos

(3) Create Slideshows

• Slide - slideshows, slide shows, photo sharing
• Animoto - is an easy way to create a short (30 seconds or less) slideshow with great effects and animations.
• You need at least ten pictures to make it work! (an example:slideshow)

(4) Some examples of Using Images

• Flickr Badge (HTML) - Flickr images only
• Flickr Flash Badge - Flickr images only
• Flickriver - Flickr images only
• PicasaWeb slideshow - PicasaWeb images only
• Slideoo - Flickr only
• Slide - Flickr, Photobucket and image urls

Assignments

Weekly Gallery Project
Create a page in your portfolio that utilizes the badges or slideshow tools. This page could be a revision of a page you have already created or it could be a page you haven't completed yet. Aim to have at least five images in your badge or slideshow. Link this page of your portfolio to the Wiki Gallery under the "Photos" column.

Blog post
Imagine you are at your field placement this week and a student asks you for help. She wants to find an image that she can use in a presentation she's creating. Generally, she has two questions. First, where do I go to find images to use? Second, what do I need to do to be sure I've given the creator of the image proper credit?
In this post,

• Write about what you would have suggested to the student in the scenario BEFORE this week's lesson. (Where would you have had her look for images and what would you have told her to do to cite the image source?)
• Based on what you've learned this week, what would you recommend to her now?

Here is a checklist for the week.

For next week, we will be getting into VoiceThread. VoiceThread offers a free general account that you can use, but there are a few restrictions on how many VTs you can create (and some other things, too). They do however, allow a free upgrade to their Professional account if you are a K-12 educator. Joe wrote to them and asked if pre-service teachers could also qualify for the professional educator accounts. They granted us permission. If you want the educator account, when you sign up for it, you will need to use your msu email addresses and list Joe's email as the school contact (freidhof@msu.edu). I recommend that you take time this week setting up your account so that when we start digital storytelling next week you are all ready to go.