This week’s activities are going to be fun but first, there are some things you need to know so please read carefully!
Miss W has been visiting many blogs over the last few weeks. Some students new to blogging have been writing some great posts while others who have been blogging for a bit longer have started adding videos and images to their posts.
Yes, this week we deal with using images, videos, music, and sounds in your posts.
But can’t I use any image, music or sound that is on the internet?
No, you must use creative commons, public domain or in some cases the fair use rule.
But where can I find these images, music and sounds? Can’t I use anything when I google an image?
No, your blog is public so you must use creative commons images, sounds, music and videos.
Sue Waters over at Edublogs has created a student blogging boot camp with lots of interesting posts. Check these out!
- Adding your own images or images you have created from apps
- copyright and creative commons images
- Adding videos
Other places to find information on creative commons
- Head to the creative commons website.
- Check out the CC wiki to find out what is happening in your country. What are the different licenses used?
- Teachers check out the education section of creative commons.
- Youtube allows creative commons for videos.
- A fantastic guide to copyright, fair use, and creative commons has been written by Ronnie Burt, and Miss W suggests you read this to understand more about using images, music, and video on your blogs. Also includes what might happen if you use an image etc incorrectly.
- Post by Kathleen Morris about using images in blogs
- Larry Ferlazzo also has a great “Best List for images” that you might want to check out as well
Images
- Open Clip Art
- Pics4learning
- Compfight website if you don’t have the plugin in your blog
- Pixabay
- Unsplash
- Pexels
- The Commons on flickr
- Wikimedia Commons
- Getty Search gateway
Video
Check out Sue Water’s post from the student blogging boot camp where she shows how to create and upload your own videos as well as where to find videos and how to embed on your blog posts.
Music and sound effects
Jamendo, CCMixter, post with 14 websites for music, post with 20+ websites for music, post with 55+ sites with sound effects
Now for the activities for this week:
Do one activity for each color (2/3, 4/5, 6/7/9/10).
Activity 1. Do some more research on the topic of attribution and licenses and perhaps create your own class video about using images, music, and videos in class.
View the first video on Miss W’s page about the reaction of students in Mrs. Yollis’ class when she mislabelled their artwork. How would you have felt?
Activity 2. Take a photo or find an image or piece of music. Add it to a new post (with attribution) and write a poem relating to the image or music. Invite your readers to write their own poems. Here is Fernando’s example, and Samantha‘s example is confused
Activity 3. Similar to activity 2. Take a photo or find an interesting landscape image (include attribution) or create the beginning of a video. Write the beginning of a story relating to your image or video (at least two paragraphs). Remember to include a conflict of some sort between your characters. Invite your readers to finish the story. How many different endings can you get? Which ending do you prefer? You might need to visit some other bloggers and invite them to finish your story. Remember to leave the URL of your post for them to click on.
Activity 4. Write a sentence using just images – no words OR find 5 images that create a story – again no words only the attribution for each image.
Activity 5. Create a slideshow, photo gallery or poster about your interests to add to your about me page or as a separate post. Your final slide should include attribution for each image. Noah created a great gallery with captions
Activity 6. Create your own images and add to a new post. In your post, add a link to the website or tool you used to create your image and describe your image.
Other options for creating your own images include:
Mixing up your images using these types of tools can really spice up your posts! Leave a comment on this post, if you or your class can recommend some other image sites to add to this list.
Activity 7. Zoom out from an image
We first tried this activity in the challenge in September 2010. Choose a picture, and have your readers zoom out, so to speak, by leaving comments. Check out the example from Huzzah who finished their story. If doing this activity, include the word ‘zoom’ in your title so I can find it easily. Remember to give attribution. Most important here is to read previous comments so you can add to the story.
Check out these zoom pictures: Becky, Jacqueline, Abbey
Activity 8. Go back to previous posts (classwork)
If you have used images in any previous posts you have written, then you are ethically obliged to give the correct attribution or take the image out of the post if it does not have the right creative commons license.
Activity 9. Create a jigsaw from your image. Mrs. Schmidt’s class has done this using Jigsaw Planet. Here is her explanation:
Last week (2014) my students made some jigsaw puzzles about famous places in our area. First each student created one Power Point Slide showing a photo and some facts about a location in our area. They saved the slide as a JPEG and then uploaded it to Jigsaw Planet. Once the puzzle was created, they published a link to it on their Kidblog. Click on Niamh’spuzzle link. Maggie created a tough jigsaw. Anisha created a jigsaw from her avatar.
Activity 10. Make a game using images. This class in Australia based their game on 4pics 1 wordapp.
Still got time left this week:
- Check out some good avatar posts I found in the list and I mention below
- Reply to comments on your own blog
- Start using tags and categories with each post you write to make it easier for people to find posts on certain topics. Make sure you have the tags and categories widgets in your sidebar.
Student posts: Rajyashoril, Hailee, Yasha17, Kofi, Nicholas, Claire Louise, Jude, Jordan,
Some class posts: Mrs. Scales, Windy Woods Farm homeschool, Mrs. Vazquez,
Flipboard magazine – are you in there yet?
Miss W will only be adding posts to the flipboard magazine that:
- are written in paragraphs
- have been proofread
- include an image, sound or video with attribution
So make sure you have taken note of this week’s learning about creative commons.
Most important learning from this week’s challenge is:
Use creative commons images or public domain, not just any image on the net. Always include attribution of where you found the image. Compfight plugin does this for you.
PS If you have done the blogging challenge before, you will find these activities are nearly the same each time. If you have ideas for different activities please leave a comment on Miss W’s post.
seems interesting