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Video. Picture. Sound. OpenStax CNX - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities. II - Home. Tools and Resources to Find Licensed Images for your Classroom Use. It is highly important that you teach your students the ethical use of images they find online. Be it on their classroom blog, personal website or any other multimedia project involving the use of images, students need to know that not every image they find online is free to use. There are some images that are copyright protected which means that their original owners require permission before using them. Using such copyrighted images without permissions leads to what is called" copyright infringement " a serious offence to the owner of the real work .

However, there are several places where students can look for and find Creative Commons images. Related : Excellent Resources for Teachers to Teach about Copyright Watch this video to learn more about Creative Commons Below are some of the websites you can use to look for free and licensed images : 1- Flicker CC This is my favorite website when looking for licensed images. 3- Wikimedia Commons 4- Morguefile 5- Photo8 6- World Images Kiosk. 19 Interesting Ways* to find Creative Commons r... - "Google Docs" Copyrightfriendly. CC Search.