{"id":1281,"date":"2023-09-18T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/med\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2023-09-19T17:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T00:35:14","slug":"finding-open-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/med\/2023\/09\/18\/finding-open-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Open Resources and Content"},"content":{"rendered":"

To assist you in finding resources that are not copyrighted, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with Creative Commons. Creative Commons is an initiative that provides licensing options that span between copyrighted and public domain. You can learn more about Creative Commons on their website here<\/a>. Creative commons licensed images are free to share (see license chart below for different permissions, such as non-commercial or commercial use, free to modify, etc.). Images still require attribution. To learn more about how to attribute a Creative Commons licensed resource, please visit the following resource.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Finding openly licensed images<\/h3>\n

There are several excellent sources for findings high quality images and graphics online. Some use licenses similar to Creative COmmons and simply require the attribution and a link to the original author.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/unsplash.com\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/thegreats.co\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/creativecommons\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

General Open Content Search Tools\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

https:\/\/wordpress.org\/openverse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/archive.org\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/search.creativecommons.org\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Open Teaching Resources<\/span><\/h3>\n

OER Commons<\/span><\/a> (<\/span>https:\/\/oercommons.org\/<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.ck12.org\/student\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.openschool.bc.ca\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/hyperdocs.co\/teachersgiveteachers<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.curriki.org\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/learninglab.si.edu\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.siyavula.com\/read<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/phet.colorado.edu\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/mb<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.merlot.org\/merlot\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Openly Licensed Text<\/span><\/h3>\n

https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.doabooks.org\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.saylor.org\/books\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Openly Licensed Images\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

https:\/\/unsplash.com\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/thegreats.co\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/creativecommons\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Openly Licensed Video<\/span><\/h3>\n

https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/videos\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Open Data\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

https:\/\/opendata.victoria.ca\/<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/data\/open-data<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/open.canada.ca\/en\/using-open-data<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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