Apps for Education: Perusall

How to create a Perusall course

How to create a Perusall assignment

Student guide to using Perusall

Apps for Education – Finding Images

We know how much you hate plagiarism from your students, so why do you do it in your teaching?
Wait, what do you mean I’m plagiarizing, all my writing is my own and I always use citations?
I’m not talking about your writing, I’m talking about the images you use. Most of the time we just do a Google Search and save the image, like this right?

Google Image Search

Well unless that image is in the Public Domain or created under Creative Commons Licensing you just committed copyright infringement (plagiarism)!

How can you avoid being an image criminal? By using better tools or searching techniques.

• Many museums are beginning to put their works into the Public Domain.Here is a short list of article on this from Open Culture
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art – 400,000 images
  • the Getty in L.A. -87,000 images
  • the Rijksmuseum  – 125,000 images
  • the National Gallery – 35,000 images
  • Google Art Project – 57,000 images
  • the Smithsonian – 40,000 images
• More than 180,000 of the items in the New York Public Library Digital Collections are in the public domain.
• News outlets, schools, and text-book authors may use NASA content without needing explicit permission.
• Good Free Photos is a large Public Domain (12615) photo repository with high resolution free photos and vectors.
• Wikimedia Commons a database of 34,221,345 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
• Search Photos For Class to download properly attributed, Creative Commons photos for school!
• On Pixabay you may find and share images free of copyrights. All pictures are released under Creative Commons CC0 into the public domain.
• Google and Bing both have the ability to search for images that are labeled for reuse. You just have to tell them to do it!
• This is also true of video hosing sites like YouTube and Vimeo. There are filters attached to the search tool, you can use them to limit the results based upon usage licenses.

This list was compiled by previous knowledge which was jogged by Harvard Law Library’s Guide to Finding Public Domain & Creative Commons Media

Apps for Education -Twitter

What is it?

Twitter is a 140-character social media communication tool.  Users can connect with others by searching for common interests in order to create a PLN (personal learning network).

Why should I use it?

Recent studies show that students using Twitter are more engaged. Students are more likely to connect with the course content in meaningful ways and spend more time on coursework.

How do I use Twitter effectively?

• Search for andd follow experts in your field
• Tweet and retweet regularly
• Use #hashtags to make your topic searchable
• Include images and videos

Sources:

• The Teacher’s Guide to Twitter