Planning a search for material

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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.

falseActivity 8 Planning a search for material

Timing: 30 minutes (online) during week three of the course

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:

  1. What format of material are you looking for (e.g. images, video, text)?
  2. 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)?
  3. What do you want to do with the items you find, e.g. are you amending an item, displaying it, distributing it?
  4. What will you need to look for when you have found material? e.g. Which Creative Commons Licence best fits your requirements from (2)?
  5. How do your answers to (3) and (4) impact on the parameters to set for your search?

Creative Commons (cont.)

Finding material