Photos are not only necessary, but vital to catch the interest of anyone, anywhere; especially in a classroom. Whether you're the lecturing teacher or the student with a presentation to give, a good photo is useful when trying to engage an audience.
This brings me to Creative Commons licensing and crediting. Basically, this week in class we were introduced to the subject of crediting other people's photos! It makes since and it's so obvious, but a lot of people never stop and think to credit their photo sources. We can easily go to google images and find whatever we need, save as, then print, post to blog, etc, without even thinking twice about who the photo may belong to. Putting it into perspective, everyone has to cite their sources when writing a paper for school; otherwise, it's plagiarism.
So, everyone, be courteous and be legal: give credit where it's needed.
Cool picture!
ReplyDeleteI like that we learned about Creative Commons because it really is easy to use. Giving people credit for their pictures isn't that hard and doesn't take that much time, so people no longer have excuses no to do it.
It's encouraging that in this wild-west kind of cyber world we still engage in, that you advocate respect for others' work. This work can expand to images, ideas...it's not just about paper-stealing anymore.
ReplyDeleteNow that there are so many distractions, entertaining or educational, I do worry about "catching the attention" of my students. I think you brought up a good point about images. They can be such powerful statements!