Image Seeking For Metaphors & Concepts

Posted on by Not So Mad Scientist

Beyond Puppies… How to Represent?

Image Seek: Mozilla Thimble

Looking for an image to represent…

What adjectives, activities demonstrate this when seen in the world?

What kind of people, objects, animals have this as an attribute or are associated with it?

What kinds of locations, places does it occur?

What added word might suggest a more specific instance of it (e.g. introducing a character, animal)?

Now search for images licensed for reuse using

  • compfight.com (set the options for creative commons)
  • commons.wikimedia.org
  • search.creativecommons.org or ccsearch.creativecommons.org
  • pixabay.com
  • unsplash.com
  • images.google.com (set options licensed for reuse)

    • Download 1-3 best images & keep track of URL where found and tweet then out (use #oextend)

    More…

    ImageSeeking for Fantastic Visual Metaphors (Mozilla Teaching Kit)

    look closer flickr photo by tnarik shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license