Presentation slides from JALT International Conference (2016)

1. Sourcing images for
teacher-made materials
Cameron Romney
November 26, 2016
Doshisha University
Faculty of Global Communications
Aichi Industry & Labor Center – WINC Aichi
Nagoya, Japan

2. Agenda
•Ways images are used in ELT materials
•Usage issues
copyright, public domain, paid licenses,
creaKve commons, and plagiarism
•Sources for images

3. Ways images are used
hows & whys

4. Achieve impact“
Tomlinson, 1998
Provide agency “ Keddie, 2009
AcKvate schema“ Brinton, 2014
Three Principle Reasons

5. Three Principle Uses
• DecoraKve
• SupporKve (strong and weak)
• InstrucKonal

6. DecoraKve Impact
SupporKve Schema
InstrucKonal Agency
ConnecKng why to how

7. English for Business (O’Brien, 2007)
DecoraKve
Image removed on copyright grounds.

8. SupporKve (strong)
Smart Choice 1 (Wilson, 2007)
Image removed on copyright grounds.

9. SupporKve (weak)
Business Venture 2 (Barnard & Cady, 2009)
Image removed on copyright grounds.

10. InstrucKonal
English FirstHand Success
(Helgesen, Brown & Wiltshire, 2010)
Image removed on copyright grounds.

11. DecoraKve
SupporKve
InstrucKonal
Impact
Schema
Agency

12. Usage Issues
copyright
public domain
paid licenses
creaKve commons
plagiarism

13. Copyright MisconcepKons
• Law varies by country (WIPO, n.d.)
• By default all images are copyright (Berne
ConvenKon)
• PosKng on the Internet does not mean public
domain (Templeton, 2008)
• A picture of a picture is sKll copyright (Schultz, 2010)

14. Japan’s EducaKon ExempKon
•Several condiKons must be met
• MEXT oversight of school and class
• Used only for educaKonal purposes
• Purpose of the original work
• NO distribuKon
•ExempKon is NEVER guaranteed

15. Public Domain Images
• Rights have expired
• Varies according to local law of ‘source country’
• Rights were never fixed
• Created before copyright law
• Rights have been forfeited
• Author has given declared the image to be in the
public domain

16. Paid Licenses
•Stock photo agencies
• Geey Images, ShueerStock, istockphoto
•Licensing FEE to use for any reason
•Can be expensive
• depending on source, topic, size, quality, etc.

17. CreaKve Commons
•Sharing license
• Between copyright and public domain
•Six versions with varying restricKons
•AeribuKon is ALWAYS required
• Hyperlink for electronic materials
• Text aeribuKon for paper-based materials

18. CC AeribuKon
•No set standard
•Should contain four items (if possible)
• Title, Author, Source and License (TASL)
• [TITLE] by [AUTHOR] available under [LICENSE] via
[SOUCE]
(creaKve commons.org)

19. [TITLE] by [AUTHOR] available under [LICENSE] via [SOUCE]
GraduaKon13_IMG_7890 by saumag available under CreaKveCommons via flickr.com

20. Graduation13_IMG_7890bysaumagavailableunderCreativeCommonsviaflickr.com
AeribuKon

21. Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the wrongful appropriaKon of
another person’s language, thoughts, ideas,
or expressions.
Using an image in a work you have
produced without providing appropriate
citaKon is plagiarism.
“
“
Wikipedia
plagiarism.org

22. Plagiarism
• Aeribute images regardless of usage
rights
•Next to image for one-off materials
•‘Acknowledgements’ page for longer
works

23. Sourcing Images
Google Images
flickr.com
(ELT Pics CollecKon)
iStockPhoto
Wikimedia Commons
Miscellaneous

24. Google Images
• Free
• Huge number of images
• Copyright
• Huge number of images
• Off-topic images
• NSFW images
Advantages Disadvantages

25. Google Images
screen capture of Google Images search (2016)

26. Google Images
screen capture of Google Images search (2016)

27. Google Images
screen capture of Google Images search (2016)

28. flickr.com
• Free
• Largest collecKon of CC
images
• Huge number of images
• Huge number of images
• Off-topic images
• Not indexed well
• Amateur quality
Advantages Disadvantages

29. flickr.com
screencaptureofFlickr.comsearch(2016)

30. ELT Pics CollecKon
• Pictures for language
teaching by language
teachers
• CreaKve Commons
• No curaKon
• Not indexed well
• Amateur quality
Advantages Disadvantages

31. ELT Pics CollecKon
screencaptureofFlickr.comsearch(2016)

32. iStockPhoto.com
• Professional quality
• Well indexed
• Large number of images
• Paid license
• ¥1200 or ¥3400 per
image
• Credits must be bought
in packs
Advantages Disadvantages

33. iStockPhoto.com
¥3400 ¥1200
screencaptureofiStockPhoto.comsearch(2016)

34. Wikimedia Commons
• Free
• Well indexed
• All creaKve commons or
public domain Images
• Off topic
• Amateur quality
• Moderate number of
images
• Historic images
Advantages Disadvantages

35. Wikimedia Commons
screencaptureofWikimediasearch(2016)

36. Wikimedia Commons
screencaptureofWikimediasearch(2016)

37. Miscellaneous
•US Government sites
• usa.gov, nasa.gov, nps.gov, etc.
•Pics 4 learning
• hep://www.pics4learning.com/
Imagefromwhitehouse.govImagebyMichealD.Hall

38. Miscellaneous
•Library of Congress: Prints &
photographs online catalog
• hep://www.loc.gov/pictures/
•The New York Public Library
digital collecKons
• hep://digitalcollecKons.nypl.org/
PhotobyJamesTaulmanPhotobyCarolHighsmith

39. Miscellaneous
•University of Piesburgh:
Visuals for foreign language
instrucKon
• hep://images.library.pie.edu/v/visuals/
•University of Victory: Language
teaching clipart library
• hep://hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart/
ImageFromUPittVFLI
ImagesFromUVicLTCL

40. Thank You!
romney.cameron@gmail.com
@CameronRomney
CameronRomney.com