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Another FlickrCC Search Tool

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The fabulous Mr U, (aka: Jeff Utecht) showed me this FlickrCC search tool after our meeting the other day.

Skitch

Click on the image you like the look of, and this screen appears next:

A flickr CC search toy

As a presenter, the stamp option is fabulous!! Check out what it does below!

stamp.php (500մ61)

I do wish this site did have a safe-search option ……… I’d love to introduce it to our students, but for now, I think we will stick with Compfight as it allows us to have a Safe-Search on, which makes it appropriate for use at school.

You can find out more about what we’ve been discussing with our students about Creative Commons & using Compfight over at our “model blog” for student blogging.

What conversations are you having at your school with students about the use of images in our work?

CreativeCommons Image Searching

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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

PictureSandbox - Free Stock Photos - Find The Good Stuff

PictureSandbox - Free Stock Photos - Find The Good Stuff

Don’t you love how easy Picturesandbox makes image searching?

Compfight

compfight a flickr2122 search tool

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?