Beginning
Web Heads
Planning
is the key to a great website. A well-designed site is the difference between
a so-so site and a spectacular site. It can be responsible for bringing visitors
back. One way to learn the attributes of well-designed websites is to evaluate
existing pages: Evaluating
a Website
We will look at the first two sites together.
Then participants are to evaluate one site from each category (Lesson Plan,
Other, School).
- Follow copyright law
and "fair use" guidelines
- What
UT says
- You need to adhere
to all four to claim protection for FAIR USE:
- purpose - educational
or commercial?
- nature of the
work - educational or commercial?
- amount of resource
used - 10% or 1,000 words (smallest of the two) of a text-based item
- effect - will
they lose money by you using it?
- Look at source code
- Plan, Plan, Plan
- Keep it simple
- Use quality content
- Make it easy to navigate
- Provide navigational
buttons
- Minimize use of large
graphics and animations
- Utilize headings for
organization
- Include white space
- Update your site often
so visitors will return
- Date of creation/modification
and author's name should be on each web page
- Template
of a home page
- Template
of a Lesson Plan web page
- Higher
Level Thinking Skills List
- Rubric
for credit
Copyright
Resources
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Tips
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Video
Clips
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Sound
Archives
- Digital
Audio Files
Sound files in the following categories: historical sound bytes (Neil Armstrong
first steps on the moon, etc.), sound FX (a variety of smashes, crashes, buzzes,
rings, and other effects), and music bytes.
- Acadia
Sound Archive
- Midi
World
Lots of resources and links for midi files.
- Microsoft
Sound Downloads
Free sound downloads from Microsoft (wav and midi).
- Annie's
Place
Specializing in music wav clips from the 50's and 60's
- The
Daily WAV
Music and sound clips. Has some very funny sound clips. Has both wav files
and good quality midi files.
- Web
Places: Sound Clips
Sites with sounds to download, listed by category and type of sound files.
- Fine
Art & Multimedia
A collection of images, sounds, and animations.
- Classical
Midi Archives
Midi files categorized by classical composers
- The
WAV Place
TV, Movie, music, computer voices & sounds, military, and cartoon sound files.
- The
Looney Tunes Sound Source
- Jim's
Midi Links
Organized by artist.
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Graphics/Clipart
- Free
Graphic Sites for Teachers(Region III)
- Create
your own 3d Text
- Create
your own buttons
- Image
Collections
- Microsoft
ClipGallery Live
Provided for the purpose of granting rights to licensed users of Microsoft
Office… Examples of permissible use include, but are not limited to: newsletters,
brochures, web sites, presentations, flyers, postcards, trade show materials,
newspaper advertisements, product catalogs, and reports.
- The
Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Reading Room
The catalog includes about 250,000 records representing over five million
items. About 90% of the records are accompanied by one or more digital images.
Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright
Law or restricted by terms of Library of Congress gift or purchase agreements,
donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks.
Transmission or reproduction of protected items beyond that allowed by fair
use requires the written permission of the copyright owners.
- Images
of American Political History
A collection of over 500 public domain images of American Political History.
- FreeFoto
FreeFoto.com is one of the largest collections of free photographs for non-commercial
use on the Internet. The site features 40 main sections with over 600 sub
headings. Credit images used to the FreeFoto.com web site using its logo linked
back to freefoto.
- FreeStockPhotos.com
Download stock photographs absolutely free. Arranged in a variety of categories.
Use in any website or publication you wish - personal or commercial, but must
include the domain name: FreeStockPhotos.com along with each FreeStockPhotos.com
picture used.
- Zettweb
Photo Site
More than 3000 jpg pictures arranged by subject. Non-commercial use: web site,
online, and multimedia designs; advertising and promotion campaigns; presentations
and brochures; packaging for anything except software, books, CDs and cassettes,
and videotapes. For all uses of images at this site, provide a credit: "Image
© 1999 ZettWeb. All rights reserved." to appear adjacent to the images or
in a credits comment.
- AICT
AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community.
Arranged in the following categories: Ancient, Medieval Era, Renaissance &
Baroque, and Non-Western.
- Lantern
Slides of Classical Antiquity
Bryn Mawr College grants the right to use these images for non-profit, non-commercial
use in educational or academic settings to any scholar or student. The College
does, however, retain the right to control use of these images in any printed
product or for any commercial or fund-raising purpose.
- The
Society of Architectural Historians
Somewhat difficult to navigate, but has a huge amount of resources for photographs
and drawings of historical buildings. Most images can be used for non-profit
educational use; republication must preserve the original credit for the source
of the image. If any image is identified as PR (permission required), those
images cannot be used without permission from the image provider.
- NASA
Image eXchange
Photographs are not protected by copyright unless noted. If copyrighted, permission
should be obtained from the copyright owner prior to use. If not copyrighted,
photographs may be reproduced and distributed without further permission from
NASA.
- ZooNet
Image Archives
All images available for download on ZooNet are for the enjoyment and enlightenment
of the Internet community. Images containing an embedded copyright statement
may not be altered so as to remove that copyright statement. They are for
personal, non-commercial use only. Schools, Zoos, and Zoo Societies may use
the images for educational use at no charge.
- Making
of America
The Making of America collection is comprised of the digitized pages of books
and journals. This system allows you to view scanned images of the actual
pages of the 19th century texts. All materials selected in the MOA project
are no longer covered by copyright.
- Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Thinker Imagebase is a fully keyword searchable database; it contains
75,000 images from the collections of the de Young Museum and the Legion of
Honor. “If you would like to use an image from the ImageBase, or would like
to request a publishable quality copy of an image in the ImageBase (35mm slide,
4x5 transparency, 8x10 print) please send email to imagebase@www.famsf.org.
Truly non-commercial uses are encouraged. We would, however, like to hear
about them, mostly because we'd like to highlight your innovative educational
uses of the collections. A non-commercial use is anything which does not include
resale and is usually personal or educational in nature.
- The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo Library
Well-organized site containing albums and catalogs of over 16,000 images.
Great site covering 18 different subject categories. Most NOAA photos and
slides are in the public domain and CANNOT be copyrighted. Although at present,
no fee is charged for using the photos credit MUST be given to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce unless otherwise
instructed to give credit to the photographer or other source.
- U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service Images
Most of the images on our Web pages are in the "public domain" (which means
they have no copyright restrictions). If an image on our Web site is not restricted
and does not say it is copyrighted, then you can assume it is in the public
domain. You may download and use those copyright-free images in your print
and electronic publications. There's no fee to pay (i.e., they're free), and
no need to get permission from the Service for reusing them.
- U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pictures
Most of the images on our Web pages are in the "public domain" (which means
they have no copyright restrictions). If an image on our Web site is not restricted
and does not say it is copyrighted, then you can assume it is in the public
domain. You may download and use those copyright-free images in your print
and electronic publications. There's no fee to pay (i.e., they're free), and
no need to get permission from the Service for reusing them.
- Pics4Learning
The Pics4Learning collection is intended to provide copyright friendly images
for use by students and teachers in an education setting. The original photographers
of each image retain the copyright to these images and have graciously allowed
their use in this collection. Images in the Pics4Learning collection may be
used by teachers and students in print, multimedia, and video productions.
These could include, but are not limited to, school projects, contests, web
pages, and fund raising activities for the express purpose of improving student
educational opportunities.
- American
Memory
The nature of historical archival collections means that copyright or other
information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine.
Whenever possible, the Library provides information about copyright owners
and other restrictions in the catalog records, finding aids, special-program
illustration captions, and other texts that accompany collections. The Library
provides such information as a service to aid patrons in determining the appropriate
use of an item, but that determination ultimately rests with the patron.
- American
Memory: Selected Civil War Photographs
There are no known restrictions on these photographs.
- American
Memory: America from the Great Depression to WWII (1935-1945)
Photographs in this collection were taken by photographers working for the
U.S. Government. Generally speaking, works created by U.S. Government employees
are not eligible for copyright protection in the United States. While the
Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright in the FSA/OWI Black-and-White
Photos, there is a narrow possibility that a very small number of items may
have copyrights associated with them Suggested credit Line: Library of Congress,
Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g.,
LC-USF35-1326]
- American
Memory: Map Collections 1544-1999
The maps in the Map Collections materials were either published prior to 1922,
produced by the United States government, or both (see catalogue records that
accompany each map for information regarding date of publication and source).
The Library of Congress is providing access to these materials for educational
and research purposes and is not aware of any U.S. copyright protection or
any other restrictions in the Map Collection materials.
- FDR
Library & Digital Archives
Copyright-free pictures of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the depression
and New Deal, and World War II.
- U.S.
Air Force Photos
Information presented on Air Force Link is considered public information and
may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits
is requested.
-
U.S. Navy Online Library
All Online Library pictures are in the public domain and can therefore be
freely downloaded and used for any purpose without requesting permission,
unless otherwise noted.
- Discovery
School’s Clip Art Gallery
Permission is granted to download no more than ten different clip art images
for non-revenue-producing use on hard copy documents or on Web sites with
the following restrictions: Any reproduction must be unaltered from its original
downloaded form. This includes, but is not limited to, colorization, cropping,
or editing. Any use of clip art images on Web sites must credit Discoveryschool.com
or include a link to the Discoveryschool.com Web site.
- Icon
Bazaar
Lots of clip art and animations. Limited permission is granted for institutional
use of up to twenty (20) images from these archives by WWW developers representing
not-for-profit organizations, governmental organizations or educational institutions.
Copyright notification should be included wherever appropriate.
- Graphics
Libraries
Nice list of links to graphics libraries with extensive annotations of each.
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