Beautiful space shuttle silhouette and creative commons licensing [images]

Aren’t images wonderful!

I still can’t understand why more teachers don’t use them in their classroom?

This is a picture of the NASA space shuttle Atlantis in silhouette during a solar transit it was taken from Florida on the Tuesday, May 12, 2009.

I found it on Flickr via a link from BrainPop UK.  The image is owed by NASA which means that it is in the public domain. It is licensed under creative commons and this means that you can use the image in education for free as long as you attribute the source and don’t sell the image.

It’s the simple use of ICT in a classroom such as knowing how to find and use an image that can be the most empowering to young people. But, it is also important that teachers no how to source images correctly to make sure that they are not infringing copyright or breaking intellectual property law.

Lets hope that both of these things will find there way into initial teacher education (ITE) following the Donaldson review of teacher education in Scotland.