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Julie Massey Post 1

• 6 June 2018, 9:18 PM

Trying something new....

Hi,

My searches have become much more focused lately, although still quite 'awkward'. For example, just today I was looking for a video and an image for 'Stress and Social Media'. I went through a few different websites, trying to include 'creative commons' in my search, or 'open', or 'oer'. I'm having more success at finding (and being aware of) licensing on the media that I use. For example, the image that I ended up using came from 'Pixabay' and I was so excited that I knew what that website was and that the images were open to be used! 

I learned a lot more tips from today's post and look forward to improving my searches even further - and ultimately saving time and finding 'better' resources.

Thanks for all the tips!

Julie


Jenni Hayman Post 2 in reply to 1

• 7 June 2018, 2:26 AM

Really glad the practical things in the course are useful! I love Pixabay and also Unsplash (very high res artistic photos), I saw several other suggestions in posts, I'm going to amalgamate and categorize (curation!) on a Google Doc and share with everyone asap.


Peggy French Post 3 in reply to 1

• 7 June 2018, 4:06 AM

Julie:

It is so much easier with the big wigs e.g., Google and Bing providing filters for open licenses. It's a tad tricky to include this aspect in the search string itself.

I love that Pixabay makes it easy to recompense the artists by purchase of a "coffee". Attribution is grand, but sometimes the pictures are so lovely and perfect for my scenarios, I just have to do a little something extra ~ especially if I mind myself accessing the artist repeatedly.

Glad you found some use from Day 6!

Take care,

peg.