Planning a search for material
Now that we’ve looked at ways of searching for material which can be legally re-used in the classroom, let’s bring it all together and plan a search on a topic.
Activity 8 Planning a search for material
The objective of this course activity is to plan a search for material you can legally use in the classroom.
Jot down some brief responses to each of these questions:
- What format of material are you looking for (e.g. images, video, text)?
- In the light of your answer to (1) where might be a good place to search (e.g. one of the known reliable sites that you agreed upon in Activity 7, or further afield on the broader web e.g. Google, Flickr)?
- What do you want to do with the items you find, e.g. are you amending an item, displaying it, distributing it?
- What will you need to look for when you have found material? e.g. Which Creative Commons Licence best fits your requirements from (2)?
- How do your answers to (3) and (4) impact on the parameters to set for your search?
Creative Commons (cont.)