just to add to Bob's comment about flickr, you can also use the Creative Commons search engine (which is really a portal to many search engines, including flickr) http://search.creativecommons.org/
With flickr it's much easier to get fast and correct results, since it has CC built right into it... searching the entire web, though, still requires some sleuthing once you get your results to make sure the correct CC license is present. It looks like CC is catching on, though, so over time search engines should become "smarter", with regards to filtering by license. As an aside, while waited for my turn to speak at an international scientific meeting, the moderator for the session made his presentation and in his second slide used one of my photos. I had never met him, nor had he asked my permission for using the photo. I had a good time ribbing him about it after my presentation. Cheers David ____________________________________________________ David A. La Puma Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources Plant Physiology Building 1 College Farm Road Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1582 websites: http://www.woodcreeper.com http://badbirdz2.wordpress.com photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodcreeper Lockwood lab: http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jlockwoo On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 10:35 AM, MaryBeth Voltura < [email protected]> wrote: > This semester, I had students in my physiological ecology course create > websites as a class project. They chose an animal and an environmental > stressor, and discussed the physiological mechanisms the species has to > handle the stressor. They presented information on natural history, and > also results from two primary research articles. They were expected to > fully cite the research articles, and provide sources for the natural > history information as well, which sometimes included range maps and > photos. > > This discussion has me thinking about their use of photos. Students > typically found photos of their animal online, and used those photos > with attribution but not prior permission. The website URLs were > distributed only to the class for other students to view and comment on. > > I would be interested in the list's opinion of this type of project, and > how best to allow students to create interesting and educational > websites without violating fair use of images. Obviously, they are not > going to be able to obtain their own pictures of red kangaroos and > arctic springtails. > > Thanks in advance, > Mary Beth > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Mary Beth Voltura, Assistant Professor > Department of Biological Sciences > SUNY Cortland > Cortland NY 13045 > 607-753-2713 > [email protected] >
