Creative Commons

Creative commons is a great resource for finding free content to use any way you please. Many different types of licenses are available for images depending on the persons specific way they would want it to be used. Commercial and personal licenses are available, but it seems to me that nearly all of them could be used in an educational setting. With creative commons, you can also license audio, video, and even programming code. Another feature of licensing is that a person can allow the modification or no modification to their work. Here is the a photo that I found on flicker.

This picture has a non-commercial, non-derives license, meaning that it can't be used for commercial purposes or edited in any way. The citation for the image would be like this:

Klaus Henkel, DSC_6985.jpg, February 11, 2012 via flicker, Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NonDerivs


Creative commons images, audio, video, or programming code could be used for so many things at an educational institution. Some ideas could be using images in a class learning adobe photoshop for image editing, building a powerpoint presentation using creative commons images, or just showing students images in relation to the class curriculum. The sky is really the limit when it comes to doing things with the creative commons. It also can teach students valuable lessons in citing sources and not plagiarizing work, something that needs to be consistently worked on throughout the education process.


I uploaded an image to flickr and shared it under a non commercial non derivs license. The link to that image is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/76954815@N05/6902407849/in/photostream