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Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path
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Literacy in a digital education world and peripheral issues.
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Elizabeth E Charles
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All of us know that visual content can make an eLearning course more appealing for the learner. However, there are many things to consider when looking for appropriate images for your eLearning. 
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"Over 900,000 high quality photos, illustrations, and vector graphics. Free for commercial use. No attribution required."
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"Finding the perfect image or video clip for a website, poster, or presentation can be a challenge. Pixabay is a helpful repository of images and videos available for use under the Creative Commons CC0 license. On this website, users can browse for images by a number of categories, including Education, Health/Medical, Computers/Communications, and Emotion. In addition to photos, this collection also includes Illustrations, Vector Graphics, and Videos. Pixabay is also available as an Android or iOS application." Via Jim Lerman
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In last week's survey of Free Technology for Teachers readers Flickr The Commons, Photos for Class, and Pixabay were chosen as the best places to find public domain and Creative Commons images. All three can be used to find images that can be re-used in a variety of presentation formats.
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Rather than relying on the filters on Google Images to generate good results for students, give one of these other sources of images a try.
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Images speak louder than words. We all have recourse to images as visual aids in our teaching but the search for such images is not always an easy one. Most often, you spend a decent amount of time looking for pictures only to be disappointed that they are copyrighted . This is where the importance of having a ready made list of public domain image sources comes in handy.
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Canva has been my go-to graphics creation tool for the last five or so years. It is incredibly easy to use and makes it possible for people like me who have no visual design skills to create good looking graphics. Pixabay has been my go-to source for public domain pictures and video clips for the last six or seven years. Last week Pixabay became a part of Canva.
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My earlier post about Common Craft's new video prompted a few people to ask me for recommendations for places to find public domain images and videos. Here are the three places that I go to when I need public domain images.
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Below is a collection of some very good websites you can use to search for copyright-friendly photos to use in class with students.
Via WebTeachers
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Some of the best of the best in open source images sites are listed in this article, as well as great guidelines for ethical searches and Creative Commons
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