This week we deal with using images, videos, music and sounds in your posts. Before you begin, there are important things you need to know:
Q: But can’t I use any image, music or sound that is on the internet?A; No, you must use creative commons, public domain or in some cases the fair use rule.Q: But where can I find these images, music and sounds? Can’t I use anything when I google an image?A: No, your blog is public so you must use creative commons images, sounds, music and videos.
Sue Waters over at Edublogs has created a student blogging bootcamp with lots of interesting posts. Check these out (mainly Edublogs but many also relate to other platforms.) Other posts found here for Blogger blogs.
- Adding your own images or images you have created from apps
- copyright and creative commons images
- Adding videos
Other places to find information on creative commons
- Head to the creative commons website.
- Check out the CC wiki to find out what is happening in your country. What are the different licenses used?
- Teachers check out the education section of creative commons.
- Youtube allows creative commons for videos.
- Teachers: A fantastic guide to copyright, fair use and creative commons has been written by Ronnie Burt and I would suggest you read this to understand more about using images, music and video on your blogs. Also includes what might happen if you use an image etc incorrectly.
- Teachers: Post by Kathleen Morris about using images in blogs
- Larry Ferlazzo also has a great “Best List for images” that you might want to check out as well.
Images
- Open Clip Art
- Pics4learning
- Compfight website if you don’t have the plugin in your blog
- Pixabay
- Unsplash
- Pexels
- The Commons on flickr
- Wikimedia Commons
- Getty Search gateway
Make sure you check out the links in the Tools to Use symbaloo above the header
Video
Check out Sue Water’s post from the student blogging bootcamp where she shows how to create and upload your own videos as well as where to find videos and how to embed on your blog posts.
Music and sound effects
Jamendo, CCMixter, post with 14 websites for music, post with 20+ websites for music, post with 55+ sites with sound effects
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