At the TOD a few weeks ago Suzie Vesper made us think about ensuring we have permission to reuse images that we find on the internet. I completely agree with this so I taught my class how to do an advance search to check images are available for re-use.
All was well until we realised how few images are free to re-use. For example, do a standard Google image search on 'Kaimanawa Horses' About 3,410 results. However select the filter for "labelled for re-use"...1 result, which had no horse at all.
We needed images so I said since it was only for a school poster it is ok. But it is not. What do you do?
agree, with what you did. What is the point of Google images if we can't use them to some degree. I think if we are using the images on the internet though where more than just a selected audience is viewing the images we need to be careful.
ReplyDeleteSome of the best (science) images I have found tend to be on govt. sites. Is it wrong to wrangle these images to enrich our children's learning and work?
National geographic etc. make their livelihood out of beautiful glossy images. If we steal these to gloss up our sites it seems wrong to me.
Gov sites however are at the end of the day are about education. Promoting their cause or objectives (eg. conservation). By using the images in our sites are we not supporting their work.
I would really love to hear others thoughts on this?
Samuel Sloan
Hi Brenda - I was going to post this on your class blog for your kids but there wasn't really a sensible place. Would have been a bit random attached to a poetry reading or somthing :)
ReplyDeleteWasn't it your class filling their gardens with soil in the Guardian a week or two ago?
Anyway, I get the Tui (Garden products) emails and thought you guys might be interested in the Great School Grow Off competition: http://www.nzgrowoff.co.nz/show.php?pageid=3
The First 150 schools to register for the comp get some freebies anyway!
Enjoy the hols!
Kerry B
hey brenda and sam!
ReplyDeletei have recently watched a movie titled "Steal this Film" and it talks about the innate human need to share. The human race has been sharing knowledge since the beginning of existence, and this still applies today, it's just the medium has evolved.
anyways, it just makes me feel a little bit better about the contentious issue of file sharing and downloading.
chur
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