I have noticed that a lot of students tend to use copyrighted material in
their discussion board posts. In this video I'm going to show you how to fix
that problem. So if we go to Google and we type in nurse and we go to images
we're gonna see a lot of beautiful images the problem is that you might not
actually be allowed to use these images if they are copyrighted so I'm gonna go
to tools under usage rights you can pick what you want to use for your purposes
you could go with labeled for non-commercial reuse or labeled for
reuse doesn't really matter and then it's going to show you ones that are
tagged inside of Google as ones that you're allowed to reuse the problem is
you really have to double triple check and know what licenses mean in order to
use a Google image search because sometimes people don't label things
properly this one here says that it is from nurse free stock photo so what I
would have to do is I'd have to click and I'd have to go to this website this
one here happens to be good to use because it's in the public domain but
you do have to go to the website and check that it is in the public domain
let's look at this one here I'm seeing some information about the image but I'm
not seeing clear and quick to find information that tells me whether or not
I can use the image what I'm looking for is the license so I'm gonna assume that
that one might be an example of one that's mislabeled one of my favorite
websites to visit for pictures when I'm creating materials is pixabay all the
images on this website are in the public domain which means that they don't
require a citation I am asking my students to cite images whether they're
in the public domain or not though so if I go here and I type in nurse I see
images that have been uploaded to this website and if I click on any one of
them over here it'll say free for commercial use no attribution required
that's the kind of information that I'm looking for so you can download this one
they like that you create an account and you can use it any way that you want if
you're using it for a class again I do want you to cite it but technically you
wouldn't have to if you were using it to create materials
for clients this is usually my first stop pixabay my second stop will
sometimes be unsplash these pictures are usually a little bit better in terms of
their artistic elements but I often have a hard time finding what I'm looking for
here and it might be just because the kind of stuff I look for so let's look
for a nurse here uh here we go some pictures of nurses so in this page once
we go in there's a button here to download the image in whatever size you
want once you download the image it gives you the citation right here which
is really nice when you first get to unsplash if you click on freely usable
images it gives you the information about the license so as you see here
they can be used for free and it tells you what you can use them for a third
website that I really like as well is the noun project again these ones are
all free and if I type in nurse all you have to do is click on get this icon and
in this case it gives you the information about how you can use it
when it offers you the option of paying for it or not for the purposes of school
you do not need to pay for anything so you can do a basic download and here
where it says you must attribute the creator of this icon as per the license
requirements it just means that you have to cite them so you can go ahead and
click on continue and it'll give you the text right there that you need to cite
it if you want to learn more about the license you just click on learn more
you'll notice Creative Commons license is indicated here when you go to the
Creative Commons website they have a page that tells you all about the
different license options that they have if you scroll down it explains how the
licenses work and all that stuff these are the kinds of things that you might
see so CC by basically means that you're free to use it as long as you cite the
original person that created the image CC by-sa is share alike so again you
have to give them credit but you also have to share it
CC by nd no derivatives means that you're not allowed to change the image
at all so with these other images you're
allowed to do edits maybe cut the nurse out and put it in a different image with
a no derivative one you wouldn't be able to do that and non-commercial means that
you can't use it for commercial purposes for school you're not using any of this
stuff for commercial purposes and I would imagine as a nurse when you're
making stuff for your clients you're also not using it for commercial
purposes and then you can see different combinations of those things if you're
looking for more information about how Creative Commons licences work feel free
to visit any of the links in the description the Creative Commons website
also has this search so you can go to their website and you can search for a
nurse and you can see different images and it'll tell you the licenses when you
hover over it so let's just click on this image if we go in there too it
gives a definition of what the licenses mean they also have a browser extension
that you can use I have it installed on my computer but I haven't used it very
much because I find that I have a lot better luck using pixabay and unsplash I
usually don't need to go to these other websites to find the images that I'm
looking for I'm hoping that this was helpful and that you're able to use
images in your projects and in your discussion boards that do not breach
copyright please let me know if you require any additional information