hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos calm lots of teachers ask me where can we
get free images where we're not breaking the copyright and where we don't have to pay for
them so this set of videos is going to show you some of the best places that I've come across
and I'm also going to show you clearly the permission has been given let's get straight
into it the first time I'm going to focus on is called open clip art if you want to understand
your rights you can just come down here to the bottom and click on the license and if we look
at this license it clearly states that the images that have been uploaded onto this site unlimited
commercial user that can be used both commercially or in an educational context now it's only clipart
you can search for a clipart very simply that's just right in the word books and we can search
for images if we like an image we just click on it and then we got various options it's going to
download as soon as we click on these options I'm just going to show you if for example if I
click on big image then it's going to be pretty big and that you can see the size of that or if
I wanted to say for example small image again it's going to download so make sure you know
where your downloads are available and therefore you can get the smaller image and of course then
you can make use of those so really really simple to access the content you can even download the
images into PDF files as well and if I just click on this and open now you've got the image of in a
PDF file so lots of different options in terms of the way that you download the image depending on
what you're going to do with it you've clearly got permission to use these images and that's
a great site to make use of next site I want to look at is called alt pix very popular website
especially for language teachers because the content is often organized around things like
verbs and nouns and adjectives etc the best way to work from this as far as I use it is to click
on albums and if you click on albums then you'll see those things around here abstract adjectives
animals all sorts of things if we click on a topic so let's take for example bridges we can
click on there we've got 331 photos our bridges and then we can just scroll through look for the
image that we want so for example let's say I want to make use of this image here I can click on it
now I want to know whether I've got permission to use this picture or not well the simplest way is
to click down here because it will tell me and I can clearly see that here I've got permission to
use this and I've also got permission actually to adapt it and change it but I've not got permission
to use it for commercial purposes and if I want to read a little bit more very simple just click
here and it gives me that attribution now once you find an image that you want to make use of
just simply click over here and you can download the image in all different sizes ok so for example
if I wanted medium I just click here and it's going to download the image and it's gonna be in
my folder now in my downloads folder and I can actually open up the image and see it and it's
going to open it up in whatever viewer you've got on your computer now a couple of last tips
about navigating around this song just a really quick point about navigating on alt pix when you
access these things here at the top for example if you do a search here let's write for example the
word bridges here you're not searching for images in ELT pix these images are coming forever from
everywhere on the Flickr site so what you want to do is obviously stay within ELT pix because you
have permission to use those pictures is I have a click on here and that will bring you back to the
photo stream almost works like a back button or another way is at the bottom just click here and
it will bring you back to the main site generally when I've worked I have used the albums as my way
for searching for images and it's a great site and the society that you might want to actually
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videos are added up onto the channel thank you this is a website called pixabay I really like it
because it makes it absolutely clear that you're allowed to use the images in fact if you go to
the bottom here then you'll see that it gives you clear permission you'll notice also that it gives
you clear permission on each picture you're not even required to show attribution in other words
you don't even have to say where you got the picture from as a link or anything though of
course there's a nice thing to do let's just do a quick search so I'm just gonna move around my
microphone here and write the word cars it's going to bring up lots of images I'll click on this one
here I click on free download notice here it tells me very clearly that I'm allowed to use this even
for commercial purposes click on free download I'm gonna grab a size an image click on it the
only one thing that is a benefit if you've signed in then it will simply allow you to download the
image straight away if not it's gonna check is if you're a robot so I did actually ended up
signing up to this particular website but you can access the pictures without signing up but
it will ask check to see that you're not a robot and you'll have to click on the thing to say that
you're not a robot and then you'll be able to download the picture but it looks a very good
site it's the only one I've just started using but it's one I think I'll be making a lot of use
of in the future now this isn't quite images but this is a superb site it's one I've made
masses of use of particularly my own learning as well as using it for teaching and learning
basically it offers you loads of images in the form of PDF pictures that you can download and
use for creating activities with your students I love this site I've often talked about it if
I scroll through here for example I can see all the different types of flashcards are available
and I know that there's been more and more added to the site let's have a quick look at a set so we
got here action cards I'm gonna click on those and what its gonna do is they're gonna show me
here very quickly examples of what these action cards are going to look like and then I've got
various options for downloading these action cards I can download a small set of medium
set or a large set now in this case it's really downloading for the purposes of printing so let's
just take a quick look at this I'm gonna click on small set and it's downloaded as a PDF file
and I'm gonna open that up and just show you what it looks like and I get all these lovely images
that I can make use of now because there are no words these can be used in any language teaching
context so for example I tend to use this site a lot when I'm working in Polish because I can use
these for doing activities in the classroom with my teacher and so a really great website and one
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