Free Image Resources
Adding images to learning resources can help with learning, but legally usable images can be hard to find …
Check these posts for some sources and information about legal use: Finding Images on the Web and CC-BY or CC-BY-NC
Today, the tweet above caught my eye.
The site: https://redstagfulfillment.com/free-stock-photo-resources/ profiled, lists 85 other sites that collect images.
I haven’t looked at all of them for medically related images.
As you look at a site feel free to comment here about the value, or otherwise, of the collection for medical education purposes.
How To Add Images to Moodle Quickly
1. In Word or Powerpoint, zoom till the size of the image is about what you want it to be. (add an arrow if you want )
2. Copy a screenshot to the clipboard.
On a Mac Type CMD+Shift+4, Then hold down CTRL while you click and drag over the image. Release the mouse
On a PC with Windows XP you can hold down ALT+PrntScrn, but you get the whole screen. Later versions have the ‘snipping tool’
3. In Moodle, Click your profile picture (top right)>My Profile, Then on the Left “Edit Profile’
4. Scroll down to ‘Preferences’
5. Change the Text editor to ‘Atto HTML editor’
6. Open your quiz, or label, or whichever textbox you are trying to put the picture into.
7. Paste (Rt Click or CMD+V, or CTRL+V)
A video is available at How To Copy Image Into Moodle Quickly on the staff support page.
Finding Images on the Web
As tempting as it is to use Google Images to search for useful images to add to your powerpoint presentations or online presence, many of those images are copyright protected and may cost money to use legally. As we all want to do the right thing when it comes to copyright, here are a few links to some sources for images which can legally be used.
Please note that it is important to check creative commons license to determine the level of citation needed to fulfil licensing.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikimedia commons is a wiki for creative commons licensed images
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=Medicine&ex=1
Microsoft images are freely useable if you have a licensed copy of Microsoft Office. This search page shows the images/clipart available with the search “Medicine”.
Sadly, Microsoft is no longer making their clipart available online.
http://search.creativecommons.org
A one stop shop for searching creative commons licensed media
If you want to be sure that you are using your images correctly, take a look at https://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/using-images-the-right-way-handout/ which includes a handy visual.
Although it is Americentric, it does still give a good idea about whether you can go ahead and use that perfect image you found on the web.
Happy image hunting!
