Can I use this photo, Miss W.?
I am trying to make sure students only use copyright free images in their posts. I now have them using flickr creative commons preferably
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License .
But if there is one photo they REALLY want to use, I will often email the photographer to get their permission.
As my students are doing work on Survival and looking at the Inuit people, I found a series of photos on Flickr but they were not copyright free. They were all stills from a series of films that I had used a few years ago at school, but had since lost the video. Would students be able to use these in their voicethreads and photostory activities?
My Request letter
Dear Sir/Madam,
My students have been doing some work on the Inuit people and are about to complete some activities which will involve using images in photostory and voicethread and they would like to use some of the photos on the Netsilik Eskimo series. Would this cost money as we would then probably put the final presentations on our class blog?
I then gave the URL for our class blog and the Inuit activity page.
Their replyDear Sue,
You seem like an amazingly motivated and creative teacher. We would be happy to support your students work by permitting you free use of some stills from our Netsilik Eskimo films for the class story telling.Keep us informed about your work.
All the best,
Cynthia Close
Executive Director
Often all it takes is a polite letter asking for permission and it will be granted.
Thanks to those photographers and companies who allow students to use their works in their blogs.
May 9, 2008 @ 8:02 pm
It is wonderful when groups and individuals are willing to share their materials with others especially when in the education field. Despite so much teaching on the subject, my students still think the internet is ‘free for all’ and whatever is up there, can be used whenever and wherever. However, I keep on reminding them constantly that this is not so. I got a delightful comment on our backyard blog from one of your students.
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May 11, 2008 @ 5:23 pm
Hey Miss W,
I’ve been using photo’s from Flickr they are in Creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License is that ok to use?
I use it because it has the most pictures in it!
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May 12, 2008 @ 10:47 am
We have an Inuit family in our school. Their family live in Tuktoyaktuk in the North West Territories of Canada. When our students visit their family which is usually 2-3 times a year they fly from Regina, Saskatchewan to Edmonton, Alberta by a national air carrier. From Edmonton they take a small plane to Inuvik, NWT then depending on the time of year they either take a barge or float plane to Tuktoyatkuk, NWT. The journey takes around two days. When I started teaching at my school four years ago my then grade six student told he was leaving for “Tuk” later in the week. I had to check a map and do research to find out where it is. http://www.tuktoyaktuk.worldweb.com/. Fortunately for me if my class was doing research on the north I have experts in the school to consult with.
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May 12, 2008 @ 8:05 pm
Hi Lisa,
That is OK to use but I would prefer you to use the share alike License in case someone else in the class wants to use the same picture in a blog. No derivs means you can’t make any changes to the photo at all when you put it in your blog.
Maybe there are some other teachers out there who can tell us what the differences are in the licensing structures in Flickr.
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May 15, 2008 @ 1:54 am
My teacher Mr. Fisher made us do a project in school like this. We were only aloud to use free pictures off of flikr.com, and we had to show him the links that we used to prove that it was a free picture. Well I got to go byee….
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