Finding an Open Sourced Image
I am working through the Curator module as a learner prior to facilitating the session. As I begin to shape how the module will be designed and delivered along with my co-facilitator, I wanted an image that would complement an “Intro to OER” activity. I was looking for something that would trigger some thought about what OER means to the learners.
I found the Creative Commons site had a lot more options than Pixabay or Unsplash for this particular search. This is somewhat logical, given that Creative Commons and OER are intertwined in ways that other free image search repositories are not.
When I first began searching I tried “curate and open” and had no luck. Then I tried “create and open” and got 10,000+ images. This led me to trying “create and open and learn” to narrow down the search results. That search was successful and I found the image I was looking for.
The image I selected has a neon sign look and feel, showing a profile of a human in neon with the caption “The Open Source Why”. I liked this image because it’s inclusive – the neon human outline could represent any gender, and the caption provokes a conversation about what OER means and why we are going to discus it at length in the Curator module.
Interestingly, when I clicked on the image in Creative Commons to add it to this submission, I realized that the image is actually from Flickr and that Creative Commons was acting as a “repository of a repository”.
“The open source why” by opensourceway is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
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