Creative Commons

Most Internet content, including images and music, is protected by copyright. You need permission to use it. You also need to credit the author. You have to cite the book, web page, video, image or song you are using in your research. If you don't do it, you are committing plagiarism. This big C that you can see on the left shows you that a piece of work has a copyright.

Can we use Internet content (images, videos, books, songs...) without permission?

Of course, you can use Internet content without permission from the author. In that case the book, image, video, song or any other piece of work you want to use  has to be under a Creative Commons license

But what is Creative Commons?

Creative Commons is a type of copyright license that allows other people to reuse, distribute or even sell an original work. When you see a Creative Commons icon on an image or article, that means that you can use that material without asking for permission to the author. Anyway, the icons will give information about what type of use you can make of that material. Here you have a brief explanation of each Creative common element.

How can you get your Creative Commons license? how can I insert it in my site, wiki or blog?

• How to get your own license https://creativecommons.org/choose/

Where can we find images or music under the licenses of Creative Commons?

• Pixabay
• Unsplash
• CC search
• Picjumbo
• Istockphoto
• Freeimages
• Advanced search in Google

Music

• Free Music Archive

Animoto for Education

Animoto is a simple online video editor. You can upload your own pictures, short videos till 10 seconds and music. Each pictures can be described or you can add slides with short texts. in order to share stories through a short video presentation. Students will find the ability to express themselves through new media tools an attractive aspect of Animoto, and teachers can utilize this tool as a way to bridge curriculum and student engagement or develop digital storytelling projects.

Animoto offers you a free account for Education, that gives you the possibility to create 50 accounts for students. 

Here you have a short tutorial explaining how to create your Animoto account for Education. The explantion is in Basque with Spanish subtitles. 

We have use this useful application to create our book trailer. If you want to know more about book trailers, visit our site