Michael Wesch is a professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. I first became aware of his YouTube videos in 2007 when I was webcasting away at EdTechTalk. They look ancient now, but at the time, his 'The Machine is Us/ing Us and A Vision of Students Today were pretty cutting edge.
I encourage you to check out (at least the first seven minutes) of
What Professors Can Learn from YouTubers
Our goal this week: Gather some 'go to' sites for finding copyright friendly materials that can be used in our teaching - online and off. Please check out and review some of the sites below and suggest others by commenting.
Copyright-friendly sources of video, audio, & images mentioned in his video
Site's mentioned in the LearningCall.com's Copyright & Fair Use for Educators
Images
- Pics4learning.com
- Photosforclass.com
- ClipSafari.com (clipart)
- Freepik.com (clipart)
- Vecteezy.com/ (graphics)
- Unsplash.com
- Commons.wikimedia.org
- Creative Commons Search Page - select sources and types of license
- Kozzi.com - free registration required to download without watermark
- Morguefile.com
- Flickr Advanced Search (select 'Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content)
- Google Advanced Image Search (check usage rights)
- All-free-download.com/ (too many ads, but lots of free stuff)
- Free Music Archive
- Ccmixter.org (music files)
- SoundCloud.com podcasts and some free music
- Freesound collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps,released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License
- Jamendo a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses.
Information about Fair Use
Powerpoint Superskills
- Copyright Chart
- Stanford's Guide Copyright & Fair Use
- EducationWorld's Copyrights & Copy Wrongs
- Copyright Guide for Students
- Plagiarism Guide for Students
Other Stuff from the Video
Powerpoint Superskills
Tutorials for Merge Shape
Animation tutorials (Morph Transition)
Animation tutorials (Morph Transition)
