Since becoming more aware about Presentation Zen, the need to search for suitable images has increased. Using images licensed under Creative Commons goes without saying, and as a classroom teacher, I believe it’s very important for me to model image attribution and Creative Commons usage to my students.
Usually I just use the advanced search on flickr but I’ve been feeling the need for something more …….
Today, just by happy accident, I stumbled across this delicious bookmark I’d made a while back but hadn’t had a chance to read properly. (I tag anything with that I haven’t had a chance to really explore or read if I’m in the middle of looking for something else, or working on something, with lookatlater – very handy!)
Amongst the glorious things that you can do with flickr, here was that need for something more ……
Q: I know Flickr offers a search engine but it won’t display more than 24 pictures at a time. Is there a better alternative ?
A: Switch to either Compfight or PictureSandbox – these are some of best Flickr search tools on the web, even better than Flickr’s built-in search engine.
PictureSandbox
Don’t you love how easy Picturesandbox makes image searching?
Compfight
It really doesn’t get much better than this does it? What I’d like to find next, is a simple add-on that will get the attribution for me automatically (less clicks for me). So I’m off to find that now.
How do you search for your CreativeCommons images?
Originally I used the Flickr site but there are lots of clicks. Then I moved to using the Creative Commons Org site -> http://search.creativecommons.org/ and still use that the majority of the time. But I think I’m going to try out the PictureSandBow site now as I like the layout and the number of pictures – so thanks!! Which site do you use when students are searching for images? Amanda
I used to use Fickrcc with my students – it would occassionally turn up an inappropriate picture = teachable moment. But it would, more often than not, return images that were not CC licensed. So now I use Compfight because you can turn on the safe search and the Creative Commons license only!
Thanks for sharing those two search engines. I use http://behold.cc for searching Flickr with my students. I like that it’s simple to use, but it’s great to find two more ways to help them navigate the sea of imagery online.