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Ben, maybe you mean not to send it as a pdf? If we send a Google presentation shared with anyone who has the link, anyone can copy and change it, and then it’s saved in the cloud.
Also, while we’re all at it, we need to be careful to credit the pictures as Julie did. Ben could get in trouble (even if the site is locked) if there are copyrighted or shared-without-permission pictures in shared slideshows. And individuals can be prosecuted too, for sharing presentations using copyrighted pictures.
(You can do searches for pictures on google now. Two of our teachers were called into our admin over big legal threats, one from TPRS Publications for a snapshot of a page, and one for a picture by a private photographer.)
If you insert pictures on Google presentations by doing the safe search, you still have to credit the source, but those are typically open for teachers to use. (“Insert picture,” then “search.”)
Best bet: take your own pictures (credit to Mira Canion for saving me).
(This PPT sharing is a fabulous idea. I use a site that has thousands of power points for teaching many topics in Russian, and it’s always wonderful to go in and mess with those. It will be even more helpful to have presentations available that other CI teachers have developed! Thank you all!)
Michele, I need more explanation. . .
How did Julie credit the pictures?
When we search “google images” are those pictures not legal for PPT use?
What is a “safe search”?
I’m confused. I need to know if we can share images or not. If we can’t, there goes our database.
So what is the simple version of this? It’s too bad if we can’t do it because we’re talking about hundreds of hours of prep time saved each year. This is too good an idea to see lost. But Michele from what I understand even though we are locked here we can be prosecuted. How much does that suck?
Hey Ben have you heard of http://www.haikudeck.com? It’s a super easy way to build visual presentations with open source images so no royalties to worry about. It takes lots of steps out of building a presentation as well I think it would be a great tool for building this corpus of presentations. You can search each image and it is placed in a slide automatically.
Hey Ben have you heard of http://www.haikudeck.com? It’s a super easy way to build visual presentations with open source images so no royalties to worry about. It takes lots of steps out of building a presentation as well I think it would be a great tool for building this corpus of presentations. You can search each image and it is placed in a slide automatically.
We could begin a community account and as each person creates a “deck” it is saved on the account and easily exported as a ppt, or pdf.
I’m going to try to get into the habit of using sites like these, with lists of public domain / creative commons sites for images.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resources/Photography
You can also use Google Advanced Image Search and choose usage rights at the bottom:
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search
Angie brought this up a while ago. I found a couple of articles then about using things for educational purposes. Do I remember what they were? I’m sure there are many articles on the subject. This is just one.
http://www.theedublogger.com/2012/02/09/the-educators-guide-to-copyright-fair-use-and-creative-commons/
That’s a weird little sentence at the beginning of my comment.
Ya you have to be careful. Adriana RamÃrez sells Movietalk stuff on TPT but she found out she can’t include movie slides (e.g. from youtube) as these are cyrighted (e.g. basically anything that is professionally produced).
If people keep sending me Power Points I will save them as I get them. Like somebody just told me in a private email:
…we’ll figure this out – creative commons or haikudeck or something. There are too many smart people in this PLC….
I played with haiku deck a little last night and loved it.
Wow! I am going to try out haiku deck! Great idea!
If pictures are open for use, you generally can get away with citing the url on the screen so that it is visible. It doesn’t have to be intrusive. Teachers can also ask the owners for permission, but when we’re doing ppts for use in the classroom, sometimes we don’t want to spend that time.
Legal beagles reasonably don’t want their clients’ intellectual property taken without permission. I know I’ve been pretty upset to find my stuff out in circulation without my knowledge, but I don’t have the managers searching for it or the legal power to go after it.
Safe(r) search: In Google docs, open a new “Google Slides.” Click on “Insert image.” Then click on “Search,” at the top of that box. You will see a line: “Results are labeled for commercial use with modification. Learn more.” Click on the “learn more” to read the legal ease info.
Here’s part of it: “Anyone can find images on the Web, but usage rights come into play if you’re looking for content that you can take and use above and beyond fair use. Site owners can use licenses to indicate if and how others can reuse content on their sites.
When searching for images in Google Drive, your search results page will include license details that specify how image search results may be used. Only select images that you have confirmed you can use in your intended context according to the license details.”
Typically, teachers are given a lot of free rein to use materials, but as I have mentioned, two of my colleagues have been involved in really nasty legal situations lately because of what they’ve posted on their class websites. In each case, it would have seemed to me to be “fair use,” since they weren’t selling anything or otherwise benefitting from the use of the images.
Glad everyone is solving the situation!