Images

Images  The first thing to do to find images is to search for the best sites. A simple Googling of images sites for educational use will bring up several to check into. You can also add in that you want free images so that it narrows the search.

Your window will look something like this. Notice the grey line below the first entry! That line divides the page into two sections, ads up top, sites that generally are a business and therefore not free. They might have some free offerings, but their focus in a commercial venture. The other websites below the gray line are usually better to use with students. They do have free offerings and they also focus on educational uses.

One very important thing to remember is that NO site will have everything you need. And In education the more specific your topic is, the more specific your search should be. Google Images Quite possibly the most popular image searching tool. Google was however not created with students in mind, the general public was the audience for which they were creating this tool. Over the years, Google has done some upgrading to take in to consideration the student population who very much likes to use their tool. But teachers need to realize that the safeguards created for students do not pop up as your first choice when you go to the Google Images Website to search. Below is what you see when you open up the Google Images page.

To find the "Safe Search" option you need to do a preliminary search. I searched for Hat. My results look like this:



At the top right you will see the "Safe Search" button. Click the down triangle to enable safe search.



Click the Filter explicit results to enable the safe search option. You should also read the "More about SafeSearch" selection so that you understand how this tool works.

In addition to SafeSearch Google has other options to choose from. I usually send my students to Google's "Safe Search Kids." This past school year we almost exclusively used this tool.Try it out for your project.



http://www.safesearchkids.com/google/#.U9E4sYBdVS0