Photo Attribution:
Original image: "Lake Huron Rainbow"
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/2606499914_a8d266fd55_m.jpg
By: ChrisMRichards
Released under an Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en
Prior to the things I learned this week about image attribution I probably would have referred the student to Google image search to find pictures, which is where I usually go when I need images to enhance a project. I would have told her to include the image URL in her credits and also the name of the site the image came from. While this method of using and crediting images is commonly used it do quite enough to give credit to the person who created the image and especially does not filter out images that have been licensed for others to use and which have not. After doing this assignment I now have a greater appreciation for the process of licensing creative work and how licensed work can be found and used. Now I would tell a student to search for licensed images on FlickrCC or Creative Commons search and would have her attribute them the way we learned this week. (I found the best way to search for images for this assignment was using the Flickr tab on the Creative Commons search page, which brought up an image search from Flickr of only licensed images. The license itself was also easy to find on the page with the image.) When citing her work in a project I would probably have a student number her images and then have her include her photo attributions, numbered to match the images, on the same page as her bibliography for text sources. It's good to know ways to properly cite images, even if it takes more time and the image selection isn't as large.
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