Model responsible use and teach students to use online images responsibly. Remind your students to make sure that they have permission before selecting and using an image that they find online. They need to know that even if something is posted on the internet, that doesn’t mean it’s okay for them to download and use it.
Best Website for Images for Children
My favorite website for children to find online images is Photos for Class. The reason that I like this website best is because the photo source is automatically posted on the image. For younger children, this lets you model citations even though this may be difficult for them to create themselves. Sometimes, however, children have trouble finding images on Photos for Class. This is especially frustrating for students who have done the same search at home, in Google Images, where there are many more results.
My second favorite search tool for images is Google Advanced Image Search. Google Advanced Image Search searches the world wide web. You can filter out explicit results, and narrow your results to images that are free to use and share. See the image below to find those settings.
Once you find an image on the web, you have to check the usability permission for it to make sure that you follow the requirements. You are usually required to cite the sources, and sometimes to hyperlink to the original image. Some images are in the public domain and do not need to be cited.
10 Specialty Websites for Online Images
There are a number of other specialty websites that help you find images that you have permission to use.
- Creative Commons Search lets you search specific sites or databases for images, and other multimedia that are Creative Commons licensed.
- Wikimedia Commons is a collection of user submitted images that anyone can use.
- Flickr Creative Commons lets you find images that Flickr users have licensed for reuse using Creative Commons.
- Tech for Learning is a library of images especially curated for educational use
- UN World Library is a collection of historical images from the Library of Congress and UNESCO about our world.
- Prints and Photographs from the Library of Congress is a collection of historical images from the Library of Congress
- Trek Earth is a website that encourages people to learn about the world through photography. Images are organized by locations where they were taken.
- Realia Project is a collection of images and media collected by faculty for use in learning and teaching modern languages.
- Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon is a selection of images specifically curated to support language learning. They bill themselves as “the source for authentic images for language learning.
- Morgue File lets users (creatives) share photos for other people to use in creative endeavors. The website also indexes images from other sites.
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