Finding, Taking, and Blogging With Photos

A presentation and activity for the You Show

cc licensed (BY-NC) flickr photo by bionicteaching: http://flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/1262605918
cc licensed (BY-NC) flickr photo by bionicteaching: http://flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/1262605918

Get some hands on practice finding images you can use in your show (or anything you create) that are licensed for re-use, but also look beautiful. Beyond a list of search sites, you will learn a strategy for finding images represent metaphors and ideas, ones where literal keywords often fail. We will cover as well ways to provide attribution, and use yet another new SPLOT tool for collecting what we find.

Also find out how to use images in your blogs, especially so your posts that end up on the front page do not show up with this icon:

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Sorry we did not record a video archive. The slides Alan showed are available as a Google Docs Presentation. He recorded a version in tomorrow’s Open Office Hours via Hangout to have an archive:

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I bark about and play with technology and web stuff. Harmless. I have my shots.

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