A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog - Part 1. A blog can get boring after a while if paragraphs of text is all that ever gets posted to it. More importantly, your students will get bored posting to a blog if all they’re ever asked to do is write on it. To draw more attention to blog posts, to make them more interesting, to get students excited about posting to a blog, and to spark students into discussion use interesting pictures, videos, and audio files. Before looking at sources of media to use in your blog posts it’s important to having some understanding of copyright, Creative Commons, and Fair Use. (Disclaimer: this is not to be construed as legal advice and is based on my understanding from a U.S. -based perspective). The best way to avoid any copyright infringement is to use your own media. Using Your Own Media - Building a gallery of media The best way to ensure that you don’t infringe on someone’s copyright rights is to use your own media in your blog posts.
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