Free & Creative Commons images for education
Encouraging students to use photos they have taken themselves is always the safest option and encourages the creative element in the individual. For the times they do need to find an image, here is a list of sources appropriate for education use.
Learning the use of Creative Commons images and copyright limitations, i.e. everything online is not free for the taking, is an essential skill. It has the potential to save massive heartache for creative students by ensuring they don't dedicate hours of their time to a piece they cannot share publicly because of copyright restictions.
Full descriptions of the links below are on the Free & Creative Commons Images page of this site along with links to the excellent Australian Smartcopying Creative Commons resources site.
- Flickr - Creative Commons
- Creative Commons Search
- Compfight image search
- Photo Pin
- Flickrstorm
- Wylio
- Picsearch – Search the web for images
- WorldImages – California State University IMAGE Project
- Animation Factory
- ScienceImage – CSIRO
- School Clip Art for Teachers and Kids
- Pics4Learning | Free photos for education
- Trove – Australian images
- morgueFile: free photos for creatives by creatives
- Image * After
- FreeFoto.com – Free Pictures
- Dreamstime – Download Free Stock Images and Photos
- Old Book Illustrations: pictures scanned from old books
- Pictures from Old Books
- Pool - ABC
- Dennis Kunkel Microscopy (Scientific) - Education website
- Google Images advanced search/ usage rights/ free to use and share
- Firefox browser - limit search to Creative Commons only