10.4 Explore, Practice and Apply
Overview: Explore, Practice and Apply
Activities found on this page are designed to provide opportunities to explore, practice, and apply concepts presented in chapter 10.
Explore
Visit the website of a free content provider, listed below. See if you can locate the license under which they share their free-to-use content. Read the license very carefully, and identify what restrictions they place on use of that free content. Would you be able to use this content in a work context? What about at school?
Practice
Review the following free-to-use images, and prepare an attribution statement that gives credit to the creator.
Apply
For this exercise, you will be conducting a search through Creative Commons for an open licensed or creative commons licensed image. Your topic to search for is “dragonfruit”.
- Go to the Creative Commons Search Portal at http://search.creativecommons.org/
- For your search query word, enter dragonfruit
- Choose Wikipedia Commons as your search engine.
- Click the Search button to run your search.
Source: Screenshot of CC Search Portal, CC BY 4.0 - Choose a photo from the list of results. Explore this page. See if you can find various image resolutions/sizes to download and the image copyright information.
Example of a search result for “Sunflowers” on Wikimedia Commons. Copyright and licensing details for each image are located below the image, labeled “Permission (Reusing this file)”. Source: Display page of image via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Choose an image by clicking on the resolution size desired. Now right click on the image and save to your desktop or chapter folder. This is the image you would use for a project.
- You also need to record the copyright information and restrictions on the image for your records. This proves you have permissions to use the image if needed. Create a new text document and record each of these things on it:
- name of the image
- name of the image creator
- web link [url] to the image and CC copyright information
If this was for an actual job, the image and the licensing information document would go in your folder for your client’s project.
Activity source: “Digital Foundations – Intro to Media Design” by Xtine Burroughs and Michael Mandiberg is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 / This is a derivative from the original work. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike unless otherwise noted.
Attribution & References
Except where otherwise noted, this page is created by Marie Rutherford, CC BY-NC 4.0
