Soon our Australian school students will be back in school, and being asked by teachers to ‘research’, write projects, make presentations. So they’ll be jumping onto Google images, a favorite haunt, unless you have taken the time to integrate quality search techniques into the learning approaches.
So here is a handy improvement to Google image search, that makes it easier to encourage appropriate use . In amongst the image search tools, Google has just added a search by ‘usage rights’ field.
So the next time your students are looking for the ‘right’ picture, or merely in need a bit of generic clip-art to illustrate a point, make sure that when they search Google images that they then click on ‘Search tools’.
This will bring down another sub-menu students you can filter their search for Usage Rights.
The default is ‘not filtered by licence’ as per usual, but this handy feature allows for ‘labelled for reuse’ filtering as well as various ‘commercial reuse’ options.
This filtering has actually been available for a few years, but it was buried deep within the advanced settings. Now that it’s so easy to find, make sure students know where to find it.
I should also point out that there are plenty of other useful resources out there for copyright free images.
You’ll find more about this at Find Free Images Online https://judyoconnell.com/find-free-images-online/.
Enjoy!
Here’s a really interesting opportunity for some visual literacy and historical analysis work with your history students!
So Flickr has launched a new tagging initiative called 
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