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EFFECTIVE USE OF TECHNOLOGIES TO PROMOTE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

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Chapter 3 – Software tools
3.3 Photo/Video galleries
Nowadays it is easy to find images online. There are a lot of websites and apps that can provide libraries of photos and videos on the web. However, many online images have copyright implications. Here is a list of sites (in alphabetical order) where you can find images that you can freely use for educational purposes.
  • Creative Commons – it has a search page where you can choose which site you want to find ‘free-to-use’ images from
  • Everystockphoto – searches across several ‘free-to-use’ image
  • Flickr – The Commons – a large number ‘free-to-use’ images submitted to Flickr by institutions around the world
  • FreeFoto.com – FreeFoto claims to be the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet
  • FreeImages.co.uk – Free to use images for both commercial and personal use under an attribution license sites including Flickr’s Creative Commons images
  • ImageAfter – an image collection for commercial or non-commercial use
  • MorgueFile – high-resolution images are free to use without attribution
  • OpenClipArt – a free clipart gallery
  • OpenPhoto – Creative Commons-licensed images
  • PicFindr – searches across various ‘free-to-use’ image sites simultaneously
  • Pics4learning – Pics4Learning is a curated image library that is safe and free for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for classroom projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting.
  • Pixabay.com – On Pixabay you may find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are released under Creative Commons CC0 into the public domain.
  • Stock.xchng – around 400,000 free images submitted by a large community of users
  • University of Exeter Digital Collections – an open access repository for images and multimedia
  • VADS – a selection of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images freely available and copyright cleared for use in learning, teaching and research in the UK
  • Veezzle – a new search engine which finds free stock photos from a number of websites
  • Xpert – it contains metadata and resources for almost 120,000 learning objects including images from over 8000 providers.
  • Wikimedia Commons images is a large collection of ‘free-to-use’ images
From the other hand, there are a lot of applications that can be used for educational purposes. Pinterest is one of the best examples on how to collaborate with students in a much different way, using any kind of resources and desktop/mobile devices.
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