On Using Music
in Video Podcasts
It’s important that the
music you choose to use in your video productions
matches the mood of your project. Do be sure to credit
the artists of every piece you use
Royalty
Free Music Sites
Kevin Macleod
This guy has great movie music that’s easily searchable
by mood and style.
CC Hits Ning
Quite a few good tunes though the site is not easy to
search and a little buggy when it comes to previewing
songs
Podsafe Audio
good stuff, great variety
Moby Gratis
Recording artist, Moby, makes some of his discarded
tunes available free to filmmakers
If you listen to the tracks, they’re mostly ambient,
ephemeral pieces though
Jamendo
royalty free stuff, though I sometimes suspect some of
the public domain material really isn’t
Jonathan Roberts
interesting stuff
Jimmy G
Requires registration.
Archive.org
This site contains music and video that is supposedly in
the public domain…I have found a few examples on the web
site that are not in the public domain and so I’m a
little bit hesitant about using some of the material in
video projects. Nevertheless, this is a great web site
with tons of material.
OpSound
Navigation is not entirely intuitive
Sound
Effects/Foley
Sound Effects
great site for sound effects
Soungle
Absolute Sound Effects
Archive
Free Sound Project
Royalty Free
Images
Pics4Learning.com
a free product of Tech4Learning. These are images
donated for classroom use and the site is simple enough
so that I have taught first graders to navigate it.
Free Images Donated by Photographers
This is my second destination when I can’t find what I’m
looking for on pics4learning. They are not necessarily
for educational use but are available free and taken by
real photographers who are willing to share their
images.
Flickr Creative Commons Images
has images taken by photographers of different abilities
(amateur and professional) which you can use according
to their Creative Commons license.
PlinkMe
free images for web pages
iStock Photo - only $1 a picture
If you still can’t find what you want or are going to
use your images in commercial projects, why not pay $1
per photo and use the image legally? These site has
pictures of almost anything you would want.
Free Clip Art
http://openclipart.org/
http://www.school-clip-art.com/
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 Copyright
Laws—Who's Really a Violator?
From
Kickstart
News Review
Copyright
law is very well defined, despite the movement toward downloading nearly
anything and everything from the Internet. The current copyright
law document that is being argued over and litigated liberally is
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
It makes
it a crime to make or spread technology that gets around copyright
protection measures. It
doesn’t just prohibit copyright infringement, and it increases the
punishments for doing so on the Internet.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
fights for digital freedom and is against the DMCA.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
is a section of the United Nations and its web site has many resources
on copyright law. Educause
(a nonprofit association
whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the
intelligent use of information technology) has a great site with DMCA
resources.
MORE
WEB
RESOURCES
Plagiarism
& Referencing Electronic Resources
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/internet/research.htm#reference
CHEATING,
PLAGIARISM (AND OTHER QUESTIONABLE PRACTICES), THE INTERNET, AND OTHER
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/plag.htm
Secondary
School Educators: Lessons on Plagiarism
http://712educators.about.com/cs/plagiarism/a/plagiarism.htm
Relationships
Between Copyright & Plagiarism
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Harris-Copyright.html
Electronic
Resources on Ethics and Digital Society
www.oswego.edu/oda.resources.html
Social
Ethics in the Digital Age
www.pt3.org/VQ/html/ohler.html
Plagiarism.Org
http://www.plagiarism.org/
Detecting,
Preventing, and Understanding Plagiarism
www.unc.edu/cit/guides/plagiarism
Finding
Copyright Free Images
Thanks to Hey Jude,
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/find-free-images-online-my-list/
Flickr Creative Commons is a
great place, but it's blocked at school.
http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/100-legal-sources-for-free-stock-images
Bigfoto.com offers
pictures from around the world, including America, Asia, Europe, Africa,
and Pacific.
Clip Art for foreign/second language instruction. Basic but still
valuable.
EveryStockPhoto is a search engine for creative commons photos,
located in Vancouver, BC. They aim to be a community for designers,
developers, photographers and other media publishers who want better,
easier access to license-specific media on the web. This is a single
integrated search, allowing users to bookmark their photos with
private and public tags, and increasingly we will be offering
advanced searching options, rating systems
and other tools.
FreeDigitalPhotos.net has over 2000 free images that you can use in
commercial and noncommercial work. You are not allowed to sell,
redistribute, or claim these images as your own. You can browse by
category or search for exactly what you need.
FreeMediaGoo.com
has a large collection of images, audio, textures, and other visual
mediums that you can use for free with some restrictions. You do not
even have to credit the images. The site also features some amazing
digital images if you are looking for something different.
FreeFoto.com
says it is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet
(link back and attribution required).
FreePhotosBank.com
allows users to have non-exclusive, non-transferable license to images.
You can search for photos, see which photos are the most popular, and
which ones have the highest ratings or the most downloads.
Fotogenika.net
has photos for free download for personal, educational, and nonprofit
use. The site is well organized, and it includes categories such as
architecture, animals, people, and textures.
The
Geo-Images Project attempts to make images (mostly photographs) that
are useful in teaching geography more widely available. Navigate via map
points on the globe, and capture images around common themes. Love the
one on transport! and community is cool too!
MorgueFile.com
offers stock photographs in high resolution digital. With over 55,000
images, divided into several categories, they are sure to have something
you can use. The thumbnails are small, but your search results display
quickly, and the photos are of top quality. (The term “morgue file”
is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds
past issues flats. Although the term has been used by illustrators,
comic book artist, designers and teachers as well The purpose of this
site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative
pursuits. This is the world wide web’s morgue file)
Pics4Learning collection is intended to provide copyright friendly
images for use by students and teachers in an educational setting.
Lesson plans also included.
Stock Exchange offers high
quality images taken around the world by amateur photographers. If you
have an interest in photography, you can even submit your own pictures.
There are various searching options and over 100,000 images. The
photographers establish the terms, so read the fine print, but most
pictures can be reused immediately.
TurboPhoto provides free stock images from 10 categories all of
which are in the public domain.
UVic’s Language
Teaching Library consists of about 3000 images useful in the
teaching of basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. Its purpose is
to provide a set of those graphics most basic and useful for low-level
language-teaching, and at the same time, to make them as easily
searchable as possible. Transparent an matte images included.
Riya - Visual Search
provides royalty free images.
Riya contains images of
People and
objects. Each of these also contain subcategories.
Wikipedia: Public domain image sources - though in this case you
will need to check the copyright.
Yotophoto is now
indexing well over a quarter million Creative Commons, Public Domain,
GNU FDL, and various other ‘copyleft’ images.
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A
Student & Teacher Information Code of Ethics
PLAGIARISM
"Plagiarism
is using another person’s words or ideas without giving credit to that
other person."
When you use someone else’s words, you must put quotation marks
around them and give the writer or speaker credit by revealing the
source in a citation. Even
if you paraphrase the words of someone else or just use their ideas, you
still must give credit to the author.
"Not giving due credit to the creator of an idea or writing
is much like lying.” (www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm)
Strategies
to Avoid Plagiarism
| Show
you have done the research |
BUT |
Write
something original or new. |
| Use
the knowledge of experts and authorities |
BUT |
Improve
on or disagree with their words |
| Improve
your writing by imitating what you hear and read |
BUT |
Use
your own words and your own "voice" |
| Give
credit where credit is due |
BUT |
Include
your own ideas and thoughts |
You
do not have to cite information that is common knowledge.
How
do you decide if it is common knowledge?
-
The
information can found in at least 5 other sources that do not give a
reference.
-
Your
readers will already know the information.
-
A
person could easily find the information in general sources.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html
A
Student & Teacher Information Code of Ethics
Seek Truth and Express It
Be
honest, fair, and courageous in gathering, interpreting and expressing
information for the benefit of other s. For instance:
*
Test the accuracy of information from all sources and exercise care to
avoid inadvertent error.
*
Always identify sources. The consumers of your information product must be
able to make their own judgment of its value.
*
Always question the sources’ motives.
*
Never distort or misrepresent the content of photos, videos, or other
media without explanation of intent and permission from the information’s
owner. Image enhancement for technical clarity is permissible.
*
Tell the story of the human experience boldly, even when it is unpopular
to do so.
*
Examine your own cultural values and avoid imposing those values on
others.
*
Avoid stereotyping by race, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, geography,
sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance or social status.
*
Give voice to the voiceless; official and unofficial sources of
information can be equally valid.
*
Distinguish between opinion and fact when expressing ideas.
Analysis
and commentary should be labeled and not misrepresent fact or context.
Minimize Harm
Treat information sources, subjects, colleagues, and information consumers
as human beings deserving of respect.
*
Gathering and expressing information should never cause harm or threaten
to be harmful to any one person or group of people.
*
Recognize that private people in their private pursuits have a greater
right to control information about them than do others.
*
Consider all possible outcomes to the information you express, guarding
against potential harm to others.
*
Never use information from another person without proper citation and
permission.
Be
Accountable
Be
accountable to your readers, listeners, viewers and to each other.
* Clarify
and explain information and invite dialogue about your conduct as a
communicator.
* Encourage
the information consumer to voice grievances about your information
products.
* Admit
mistakes and correct them promptly.
* Expose
unethical information practices of others.
Respect Information and its Infrastructure
Information, in the Information Age, is property. Information is the
fabric that defines much of what we do from day to day, and this rich and
potent fabric is fragile.
* Never undertake any action that has the potential to
damage any part of this information infrastructure. These actions include,
but are not limited to illegally hacking into a computer system, launching
or distributing viruses or other damaging software, physically damaging or
altering hardware or software, or publishing information that you know is
untrue and potentially harmful.
*
Report to proper authorities any activities that could potentially result
in harm to the information infrastructure.
Copyright-Free Audio Search
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