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Free Stock Image Gallery Main Page. Our Collection now contains more than 16,000 Stock photos, 90 Gallery Indexes Main Image CATEGORIES Browse more of our favourite freeimages from a growing collection of 11,000+ images on freeimageslive: +Bonus 1000 free images Exclusively for our Members Free Image Use All images on freeimages.co.uk are free to use on websites, printed designs or electronic media.

Images in the Space Planets Stars Gallery are Public Domain - Please read terms in that gallery for license details. Help Keep Freeimages FREE: 6 Ways you can Support this site. Royalty Free Images for Commercial Use & Educational Resources | Humanline.com. Finding Free Images for Your Classroom. The Internet has made a myriad of material readily available to a vast audience.

Along with these seemingly infinite resources has come a lot of confusion about how images and other content published online should be legally recognized, protected or used. As educators, we often struggle in navigating that road. I recently read an amusing but instructive article entitled “PSA: Don’t Let Salami and Google Images Get You In Hot Water.” It tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy who posted an image he found online of Salami on a class blog. Shortly thereafter, the school received a “Cease and desist” letter from the content creator threatening legal action. In my classroom, we use a lot of image-based content. One thing we have learned to look for is material with a Creative Commons License.

“A Creative Commons license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and even build upon a work that they have created. Finding Creative Commons & license-free material. Data Storytelling: The Ultimate Collection of Resources. Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities. Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. OER Commons. Wall of Films! | Over 500 Social Change Documentaries on 1 Page. Just imagine what could become possible if an entire city had seen just one of the documentaries above. Just imagine what would be possible if everyone in the country was aware of how unhealthy the mainstream media was for our future and started turning to independent sources in droves.

Creating a better world really does start with an informed citizenry, and there's lots of subject matter to cover. From all the documentaries above, it's evident that our society needs a new story to belong to. The old story of empire and dominion over the earth has to be looked at in the full light of day - all of our ambient cultural stories and values that we take for granted and which remain invisible must become visible. But most of all, we need to see the promise of the alternatives - we need to be able to imagine new exciting ways that people could live, better than anything that the old paradigm could ever dream of providing.

So take this library of films and use it. Most Interesting Documentaries. Documentaries - videos.