Doing my usual Sunday-lesson-planning, I ran across this quote and was deeply moved by it:
"Washington taught the world to know us. Lincoln taught us to know ourselves. The first won for us our independence. The last wrought out our manhood and self respect" (The Expositor).
Somewhere in there is a connection to our our Mission and Vision. I humbly leave that as a thought for the day.
We've already touched on Flickr as a source of good pictures to use in projects and presentations - including pictures from historical archives and museums. In this post, I'd like to cover two final points: finding images and downloading them for use.
There are a number of options available for searching through the billions of pictures on Flickr:
A lot of grammar school teachers use FlickrStorm because it allows the searcher to build a collection of images and then download that group of pictures in one fell swoop. I don't like this because I find people are not as diligent in keeping track of the sources of their pictures.
My personal favorite has the worst name of the group: CompFight. Using the settings above, you are sure to get a Creative Commons licensed photograph of high quality, without dubious content.
Once you have found an image that you like, copy the photo's title and artist, necessary for attribution:
The next step is downloading the image. Above the picture, click on the link that says "All sizes" This is only present if you searched (on CompFight) for "originals only" - only photos uploaded by a "Pro" account will allow download of high-resolution images.
I recommend downloading the highest resolution image available if you are placing the image in a Keynote or PowerPoint presentation or video. If you are using the image in a website (or a blog post), you are better off downloading a smaller image.
In terms of citing the image, strict adherence to the MLA format would require:
Author's Name. Title of work. Date taken. Online image. Image site. Date seen. url.
Citing the above image would look like this:
ecastro. "That's my stapler". 16 September 2008. Online image. Flickr. 16 September 2008. <http://flickr.com/photos/ecastro/2868168916/>
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