DS4OERS/OER process/Finding OER filters

The Australasian swamp-hen
The Australasian swamp-hen (Porphyrio melanotus), the image displayed on the top of this page, is a species of swamp-hen (or swamphen) living in the Pacific region including for example, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and a number of other Pacific Islands.

In New Zealand it's known as the 'Pukeko', which can be used as an alternative search term.

In the following short activities, you'll search for 'Swamphen' images or videos that have open licences:

Using Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting service that is popular with amateur and professional photographers. Flickr supports search capabilities for images tagged with Creative Commons licences.

Tip: The following URL will take you directly to a page you can browse or search through with only Creative Commons images: https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

Using CC Search
CC Search is a service hosted by Creative Commons that brings together search results sourced from a number of websites that host material with Creative Commons licences.

Using YouTube
YouTube is a video sharing site owned by Google. YouTube hosts videos searchable by two licence types:
 * 1) A custom all-rights-reserved, standard YouTube licence, and
 * 2) Videos published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence.

YouTube videos published under the standard YouTube licence do not qualify as OER and cannot legally be downloaded for re-use off-line. However, there is a growing inventory of OER, CC-BY licensed videos on the site.