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Effective use
of graphics can enhance student presentations
in all types of formats including
PowerPoint, electronic documents
or webpages.
If students are downloading graphics
from the Internet rather than creating
their own, copyright is an important
factor to consider.
In this section you will find information
about copyright of graphics and images,
websites designed to help students
create their own graphics, libraries
and compilations of free (public domain)
graphics, search engines and directories
that give information about, or direct
access to, graphics as well as subscription
sites and information about graphics
software.
These teacher resources cover many aspects
of copyright including asking for permission and acknowledging
the source of graphics or text.
- Copyright
on the Web: Obtaining Permission
Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com
Shows how simple it is to request permission
to use an image or text from a Web site content owner. It
includes a form letter that may be copied or adapted.
- Free
Clip Art! Is it Really Free?
Bobbie Peachey,
About.com
An informative article/tutorial that
looks at free clip art, terms of use and copyright.
- R.I.G.H.T.S.
[Redistribution In Graphics Has To Stop]
R.I.G.H.T.S. was created to provide the internet
user with the tools for understanding online copyright based
on specific legal definitions, the laws and principles.
It defines copyright in many different circumstances and
gives instances of how copyright is sometimes breached.
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- Template
Art, Template Thinking, MultiMediocracy and Other Tom Foolery
Jamie McKenzie, 1999
McKenzie sounds a warning regarding the overuse of clip
art, saying it should be used with discernment. He suggests
ways of extending students' appreciation of the real world
and real art.
- Beyond
ClipArt: Encouraging Children's Own Drawings
Peter Minshull, 1999
Minshull's article expands on the issues raised in Jamie
McKenzie's article. He talks about encouraging children's
artistic ability and teaching them to value their own work.
- Image
Tutorials
Part of the HTML Goodies site,
this page offers a series of articles, tutorials and HTML
coding on how to create, use and position images for maximum
effect on your web page.
Note: Although the following sites say
they contain copyright free images, it is impossible to guarantee
that this is so. Check all fine print carefully and, if
in doubt, only use these graphics on a school Intranet.
- Free
Clip Art
A range of free clip art (copyright free),
very useful for developing web pages. Includes backgrounds,
clip art, animated clip art and icons.
- The
Free Graphics Store [Thematic Graphics
Archive]
An Australian collection of images categorised by type.
Each page of graphics contains download instructions for
both Mac and PC users and information about image sizes.
Categories include graphics (pictures), backgrounds, bullets,
strip backgrounds (borders), animated gifs, lines and pointers,
icons, and guest artists.
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Geography Clip Art
[About.com]
A comprehensive set of links to clip art sites where you
can find graphics of flags (some animated), continents and
countries, the solar system and animated globes.
Unless stated as copyright free, please check copyright
before downloading images by emailing the owner of the site.
- Laurie
McCanna's Free Art Site
A very useful site with tutorials and
tips for using Photoshop, Corel, Painter,
and PaintShop Pro; book reviews; free graphic downloads
(conditions apply); how to create your own typeface using
Corel Draw and links to free resources for graphics.
- morgueFile
The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits.
- Pics4Learning:
Copyright friendly images for education
The Pics4Learning collection consists
of thousands of images that have been donated by students,
teachers, and amateur photographers.
- Quick
Maps
An excellent site for schools containing
maps and flags of individual countries. Images may downloaded
providing copyright instructions are followed.
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- Clipart.com
This site is comprehensive and easy to
use. Clipart, photos, fonts and webart are available and
prospective members can take a tour or do a sample search.
- IconBazaar
An extensive and comprehensive collection
of quality graphics. Topic areas include alphabets, arrows
and pointers, flowers, punctuation marks, cartoons, borders
and textures, orbs and globes. School use requires a
licence.
- ZDNet
Reviews: Graphics Software
This page provides access to reviews
of various graphics software packages. A search function
is available as well as a table that enables comparison
of related products.
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- AltaVista
Image Search
This search page gives access to AltaVista's
comprehensive database of images . It includes options for
photos, graphics, button/banners, colour and black and white.
- Computing
& Technology [About.com]
For websites, copyright issues and information about using
graphics it is hard to go past this directory. For best
results look under:
Care should be taken when using About.com
with students because each time the site is visited commercial
sites also open up, including a casino site.
- Google
Image Search
This is the most comprehensive and simple-to-use
image search engine available. Results pages contain up
to twenty thumbnail images with name and size of image included.
An Advanced Image Search is available and searches
are filtered by default. NB:
Google is is likely to bring up adult images during a search.
- ditto.com
This visual search engine uses preselected
and evaluated images to locate relevant websites. In doing
so it provides an index of searchable images on a vast array
of topics.
- Kids
Image Search Tools
Part of the KidsClick! site for
young students, this page contains links to a number of
image and art search tools including Pics4Learning,
a copyright free site, Yahooligan's Downloader and
Animal Photo Library.
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