Obsidian Learning

JULY 16, 2018

In learning and development, and instructional and graphics design, it can be tempting to use such resources to demonstrate a procedure (YouTube video), illustrate a point (funny photo/meme), or simply improve the auditory and/or visual presentation of your content (sound effects/cool graphics). Photos and Graphics.

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learnWorlds

AUGUST 17, 2021

Luckily, there is now an abundance of tools and resources to create attractive new videos filled with your brand messages, as well as an ever-growing community of videographers dedicated to offering great stock photos for downloading, royalty-free music, and video stock footage. 8 Flickr Creative Commons. 10 Free Nature Stock.

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easygenerator

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Images are expensive, and you do not want to violate copyrights. Finding good images that you are allowed to use can be a challenge. Here is a list with free services to images and other resources that you are allowed to use. Copyright free images via search engines. Death to the stock photo. Free photos.

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E-Learning Acupuncture

APRIL 20, 2012

I know I have written about free photo repositories before ( here and here ). It’s an image library of arts, history and science that is mainly focused on licensing images for use in education ( your ears should perk up now ) and for commercial use. Heck – maybe they should partner with Wikimedia Commons - they are HUGE!

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E-learning Uncovered

JUNE 9, 2016

It’s not always easy to find high-quality images for your e-learning when you’re working on a budget. If you can’t afford the popular stock image sites, you might think you’re only option is to take your own photos. Many of these free stock image sites make their photos available with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.

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CommLab India

JULY 14, 2016

Are you looking for first-rate, attention-grabbing images for your online training modules? For an instructional designer, getting the right images is a daunting task. It is often hard to find images suitable for a e-module. It is hard to find images relevant to the content in our internal libraries. FreeImages.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler The image on this page is a slide from the keynote presented by Graham Brown-Martin at Learning Live, a conference hosted recently in London by the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI). Unported License. Your comments, as ever, are encouraged in the comments box below.

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Learning with e's

JANUARY 27, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler No, this is not some new discovery about the evolutionary development of snakes - nor is it a reptile dysfunction. Actually, if you're a teacher who's interested in anything to do with critical thinking, creativity or logical reasoning you should definitely be interested. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 12, 2020

Photo by Steve Wheeler In previous posts here and also here , I wrote about how to engage learners in online collaborative writing. I mentioned in a previous post about an introductory activity where each student is encouraged to create a space in which they introduce themselves with a few words and an image that represents them.

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Firmwater

JULY 31, 2017

BURST is a stock photo platform with high-quality images that are available free of charge under the Creative Commons Zero license. The site encourages you to edit any images to your liking. You can crop them to your preferred size and add text or filters with your preferred photo editor.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The strong visual style has been augmented by photos of elite athletes in action. These photos are all open licensed Creative Commons images. In fact I’ve used Creative Commons images, videos and audio throughout the course.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 22, 2019

Image by Craig Whitehead on Unsplash While in conversation last week at the EDEN annual conference in Bruges, my good friend Marci Powell told me about a brilliant resource called Unsplash. It's a website that hosts a huge, and ever growing repository of superb images, shared freely by talented photographers. Unported License.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Friday, October 30, 2009 Finding Good Photos for Your eLearning Scenarios Do you struggle with finding good stock photos to use in your eLearning scenarios? So then do you go do a custom photo shoot? Images and assets aren’t free, but well-priced and worth the investment. United States License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 11, 2020

Photo from Pxhere In my previous blog post I remarked that engaging learners can be difficult in any context, but is often harder in online environments. I also mentioned a very useful model that promotes creative, collaboration online writing. They are also asked to post an image which they think best represents themselves.

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Learning with e's

MAY 21, 2018

Photo by Tup Wanders on Flickr In my previous post , I reflected on 18 years of keynote speaking in academic conferences. Better still, use images and other evocative visuals to support your presentation. Images almost always evoke better memories than text. Unported License. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Photo by Steve Wheeler We connect with each other and with information in many ways. I captured the image on this page recently on a Dockland Light Railway train as it sped across East London. You can see just about everyone in the photo is using a smartphone in some way. Unported License. He's a positive deviant.

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E-Learning Acupuncture

JUNE 10, 2008

Flickr allows its users to grant Creative Commons licenses to their photos and as a result many of these images can be available for YOUR use! There are different types of Creative Commons licenses and Flickr breaks them down for you and categorizes its database of photos accordingly.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler (Duck by Denise Hudson ) If I didn't know any better I would believe in synchronicity. As we began to share the photos of our creations on Twitter, we began to notice that several of our colleagues who were attending ALT-C were doing exactly the same. Our timelines were saturated with images of Lego ducks.

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Learning with e's

MARCH 15, 2019

Photo by Krzyboy2o on Wikimedia Commons This is a post for #OpenBlog19. The event was called 'Show that you Share' and focused on tools such as Creative Commons , personal learning environments and mobile phones as a means of creating, sharing and repurposing content, knowledge and artefacts for education.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

To give you a flavour of 1976, here are some of the moving image technologies I worked with: Video Video was a relatively new thing for us all in the 1970s. Unported License. Generally, the technologies were also teacher controlled, which reflected the dominant philosophy of the time, where most education was didactic in nature.

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Learning with e's

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

To give you a flavour of 1976, here are some of the moving image technologies I worked with: Video Video was a relatively new thing for us all in the 1970s. Unported License. Generally, the technologies were also teacher controlled, which reflected the dominant philosophy of the time, where most education was didactic in nature.

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Learning with e's

JULY 8, 2016

HTC Vive in action - Photo by Steve Wheeler At the JISC Connect More event held in Cheltenham recently, a number of futuristic technologies were on display for delegates to experience. The capability of the system to allow you to render 3D images and then view them from all angles and perspectives was quite a powerful effect.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Going to a stock image site and looking for just the right pictures can be very time-consuming and a drain on your limited resources. Why not create your own stock images? Obviously, this approach doesn’t work for everyone and taking good photos is an art in itself. Keep the image in focus. That made no sense.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Photo by Filip Mroz on unsplash In my first post in this blog series I outlined the changes taking place in schools due to the adoption of online forms of education. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Learning with e's

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Ask your students to create icons or images representing these newly discovered senses. 3) Commons Touch: Ask students to submit two or three good quality images to Wikimedia Commons. Many people visit the site to find images of high quality that are copyright free. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JULY 20, 2015

It's a challenge/game that Amy called #blimage - a confection of Blog-Image. You send an image or photograph to a colleague with the challenge that they have to write a learning related blog post based on it. Just make sure the images aren't too rude. It made me think hard, because I incorporated 3 images into one blog post.

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler - Entrance to the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild Last week you would have discovered me in the cellar of a French palace - the stylish Hotel Salomon de Rothschild , not a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Unported License. For the jaded assembly of tech hacks, it was often 'yep, heard that before.'

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Learning with e's

MARCH 6, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler Humans were once untethered, free to wander the world and explore at will. The image on this page illustrates the phenomenon. Weapons of mass distraction by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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Learning with e's

JULY 30, 2015

Several people on Twitter have asked recently for images they can use for the #blimage challenge. For the uninitiated, #blimage (blog-image) is a game we started to encourage learning professionals to blog. You are sent an image which you then have to write about, metaphorically or literally. Unported License.

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Take an e-Learning Break

JANUARY 13, 2009

This article discusses finding the best free images etc. It also discusses Creative Commons Images - a set of free licenses that allow artists to share their work, while still retaining some of their rights. for your blog but I think it's appropriate for e-learning as well. Check out this article: [link]

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Learning with e's

JULY 17, 2019

Photo by NASA on Wikimedia Commons This week we celebrate 50 years since the launch of Apollo 11. Source: Wikipedia) Video Analysis Intergraph Government Solutions developed its Video Analyst System (VAS) by building on Video Image Stabilization and Registration (VISAR) technology created by NASA to help analyse video footage.

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Learning with e's

MAY 7, 2020

Photo by Marcus Aurelius on Pexels What fresh kind of hell is this? When she eventually gets her camera to work all you and the kids get to see is a blurry close up of her knitted cardigan and the image is jumping all over the place, yet you still have to listen politely as she complains about her lumbago. Unported License.

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Mindflash

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Photos, sound files and video clips are always great ways to liven up great presentations. A few quick examples: Photos. A retail clerk needs to categorize items rung up at the point of sale — photos of the inventory aid in product recognition. Adding Images. Browse for the image you want, and then select it.

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Learning with e's

MAY 31, 2019

Photo by Steve Wheeler In a previous post I outlined some of the metrics around the use of digital media, technologies and social networks. Being able to share content as text, hyperlinks, video, audio and images allows us to be more versatile in the way we assimilate and apply knowledge. Unported License. Tapscott, D.

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Learning with e's

APRIL 9, 2016

I'm using it freely because he gave his permission in a Creative Commons licence on the site. The image will get a lot more exposure than those by other photographers who don't freely licence their work. Unported License. Freely does it. It draws attention to your work from those who would otherwise not see it.

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Learning with e's

JULY 29, 2019

Photo by Florian Klauer on unsplash I have been privileged over the past few years to have garnered a good audience for my writing. All this has been possible because they are all labelled as Creative Commons with a repurpose licence. 2005) Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. Unported License.

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Learning with e's

JUNE 1, 2017

Its melodies and the images it painted in my mind have stayed with me all of my life. Photos by Steve Wheeler 50 years ago today by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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