I am really hoping that those of you who read this blog will break your silence and answer this post with your thoughts and ideas. I am wrestling with an issue and I would really like to come to a good solution. I KNOW there must be a solution out there and so this is a plea to you to point me in the right direction.
The issue is the use of images in the classroom. I have read and reread rules of copyright and fair use and even created my own web page to help teachers called Copyright for Educators. The problem is that I don't know how to make it happen in school.
There are more and more copyright free images for students to use for projects. For most things it is not hard to find a picture that fits into Fair Use. However, most of them do request that you include a link to where you got the image in your work. What I am at a loss about is how to efficiently keep track of that information. How do you keep image information with the images?
This didn't matter too much when kids were mostly using pictures for PowerPoints or Word Processing. It does matter when they are creating Wikis and Blogs. When images they are using are online it seems really important to teach them to cite the images.
I feel like I should have been doing better with this myself all these years. It is one thing to keep track of it for myself though and another thing to help kids and teachers in school keep track of this information. Any ideas are appreciated!
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I don't know how well this would work with students, but when I am doing research for images I save the images and then type the file name and url on a Word document. Maybe that would work.
Jamie,
Thanks for the suggestion. I think it would work, but I would really like a solution where the citation stays with the picture itself rather than on a separate word doc. I guess you can paste a copy of the pic on the word doc, so you have a visual reminder of which image it was...
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