Good Morning! It is a Tuesday and video tutorials are due. As you can tell I'm a little behind the time again but this time I slowed my tutorial making down a bit because an idea came to me not just about Britannica Image Quest which we will look at in-depth compared with the light touch of last week's tutorial, but about images and citing them as well. Imagination, the action of forming new ideas, images or concepts fits perfectly with giving credit to the content creator of the photograph, illustration, and all other creative works that are visual.
This past week I received a reference question from a middle school student about citing images for a project. The student wondered how to cite an image and if they needed to cite all of the images in Noodletools, our citation software, that were provided for free through the app or just the images they found through other container websites. Citing source questions are always intriguing. They are multi-layered and rarely have a one size fits all answer. When an app offers images as "free to use," I would always suggest that the project maker/students check the website of the app to see just what they agreed to when the signed up.
The app in question did have a disclaimer that attributions are appreciated but not required for the images so marked. Any other image provided by the app was subject to the usage rights guidelines established by the artist. This is true for all images found on a container website online. Let's be honest we know that most students, teachers, and parents default to a Google image search when completing a project or presentation. Perhaps in a later tutorial, we will explore the usage rights in Google image searches. But for today, let's consider the student's original question.
For those images, they wanted to use found by searching the internet how would the student cite them?
I will toggle between Britannica Image Quest and Noodletools to show how to find quality images that can be used by our students with usage rights provided through our subscription the sources of the images and how to cite them. After you have listened to the tutorial if you have any questions, please email me or any of the librarians. We would be happy to walk you through the steps.
