Copyright free images

I have noticed that most of our students at the Clerc Center use Google images to find images for their powerpoint presentations, videos, web pages, etc without taking into consideration copyright. Do we forget to teach them the importance of copyright? Do we model correct use of images we find on the internet? If the images used in your PowerPoint is only shown in the classroom then you are covered by fair use but what does that teach our students? That they can use any image on the internet freely? That they can copy and paste text from the internet without citing it? Every teacher should be conscious of this and teach by example by citing images found on the internet.

Here are some web sites where you can find copyright free images:

Flicker Creative Commons Search

aarinfreephoto.com

imagebase

PD Photo

Wikipedia Free Image Resources

Now a few online editing tools to resize or enhance your images:

picnik

FotoFlexer

Pic resize