Finding images for teaching

In the early days of the internet, before most people were thinking about copyright, if I needed an image for a PowerPoint presentation, I went online and downloaded it or did a screen capture and just used the image without attribution.  While that was certainly easy, it was more than a little ironic that I would have failed a student for taking someone's material and submitting it as their own, but didn't provide any attribution for work created by others.

So now I'm using images that are licensed for reuse, usually using a Google images search, because it's easy to specify permissions for image use (I use noncommercial reuse):

My own image, which you can use for whatever purpose you wish, without attribution.

There are a number of articles online for how to appropriately cite an image, which are very helpful if you're only using one or two images.  But if you're getting a bunch of images to present new vocabulary, properly citing every single one will take you a while (possibly the rest of your life).

That's why I try to use images from Wikimedia Commons (or any Wikipedia page).   When you open an image in the media viewer, it will give you the option to download it, and then tell you that you need to include an attribution.  But it doesn't stop there; it actually provides the attribution for you, so you can copy and paste it into your presentation.

By Dwight Burdette - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14662626
See how easy it is?

By Dwight Burdette - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14662626
You can also change the size of the file you'd like to download.

 So, in the spirit of making images accessible and not tedious to use, I offer my latest collection of images that I produced to teach location prepositions, starring Hello Kitty.  You are welcome to use/modify these images for any purpose without attribution.

Hello Kitty está a la derecha del reloj.