Use Creative Commons Images in Research
Use Creative Commons images to pose questions and complicate your thinking about your research topic. Images have a way of adding complex, sometimes even contradictory ways of seeing a subject. Make a short slide show that expresses different perspectives on your topic without words.
Why use Creative Commons?
1. Watch Creative Commons Kiwi
2. Read Photography (Creative Commons)
Try this!
- Go to search.creativecommons.org.
- Enter a keyword to describe your inquiry question or topic.
- Unclick both boxes
- use for commercial purposes
- modify, adapt, or build upon
- Search using:
- Google Images
- Flickr
- See which of these two services gives you the most thought-provoking, interesting images.
- Copy the URL addresses for four images and add them to four different slides in a Google Presentation.
- Add at least a URL address for where this image comes from to the Speaker Notes. Also cite the photographer and title if available.
- Add a short paragraph to each image, explaining its signifigance in relation to your inquiry or question.
- Under the Share button, add your teacher and a few peers to your Presentation, and make it Public.
- Also under File, Publish to the Web...
All Missions: Grouped by Channel
Looking for ideas? We invite all students and their teachers to use these projects to create discussions at any time. Choose a title in the list below to find detailed instructions and examples.
Are you a power user of Youth Voices? Check out Youth Voices Challenges and Tasks (aligned with Common Core Learning Standards), (Revised September 2012), and Play Youth Voices.
Check out the articles (PDFs) students and teachers have collected for each other in this Youth Voices Personal Crocodoc folder. Add folders with new topics and add PDFs of articles that you think others might find helpful int their research.
Gooru Collections: Find resources to support students' inquiries.
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