Creative Commons Lab

Creative Commons Image

The Creative Commons search was pretty cool once I got the hang of it.  I initially started using the Google Images search, but did not find many quality images.  Honestly, it felt like I was searching in 1998.  Most of the images that appeared were unrelated to my query.  Once I switched to the Wikimedia Commons tab I had a lot more success.

Tectonic Plate Boundaries
The image that I chose for this assignment shows the three main types of tectonic plate boundaries (pictured right).  If I still taught Earth Science I could use this image in a number of ways.  I could ask students to identify what types of plate boundaries are represented at 8,9, and 10.  I could ask them the term for what is happening when 5 is going under 6.  There are a lot of different directions I could go with this image.

Photo Attribution

This image was created by someone working for the USGS (part of the federal government), so it is part of the public domain.  It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Original image: "Tectonic Plate Boundaries 2"
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tectonic_plate_boundaries2.png
by: Eurico Zimbres, USGS

Flickr

After we graduated from CMU in 2007, my wife and I moved to Toksook Bay, AK to begin our teaching careers.  As requested, I posted a link to my Flickr page.  The only picture that I have on there right now is the view from my house.  I also licensed the photo with Creative Commons :)