We are always looking for free images. Unsplash has always been the favorite of mine (and still is). However, I came across another useful site called Pexels, which is very similar.
What is great about all of these sites, regardless of the one you choose, is the opportunity to teach students HOW to properly search for images. It should become best practice to understand copyright regulations, and which images they CAN use when they are working on a presentation. I also like seeing students use these sites because it enlightens them to be more creative and enables me time to work in presentation skills.
Pexels offers free, hi-def images, that are copyright free under creative commons. You do not even have to include attribution to the source image.
So what if students used Pexels:
- To create a blog or website
- To put together a formal presentation
- As a “picture-book”
- To summarize a reading with images
- When creating background images to use with Thinglink