This week the Digital Leaders learnt the importance of being a good digital citizen and understanding that images and text that we see online can only be used again with the permission of the person who created it in the first place.
To enhance the inside of our Christmas and holiday cards we wanted to add some festive images and learnt that there is a website called Pixabay that has images that you can use for free and without further permission. Using the direct link from our school website we visited Pixabay and firstly turned on the safesearch tool to ensure that any images we found would be suitable for children to use.
Using the search function we looked for images with the title Christmas. We chose the image by clicking on it and then downloading the smallest size image directly to our download folder in our computer book (folder). We downloaded a maximum of 12 images with our partner so that we had plenty of choice next week when we continued our card. To ensure we had done it all correctly we looked in our downloads folder and viewed all the images and deleted any that we decided we no longer wanted.
“I didn’t realise that it wasn’t ok to use anything I found on websites, but thinking about it I understand why that is not ok – I wouldn’t like someone to take one of my pictures and say it belonged to them.”
