CreativeCommons Image Searching

teachingsagittarian — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:05:54 +0000

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?

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CreativeCommons Image Searching