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Created by Stacy Kitsis, Arlington High School Librarian. Last updated: December 18, 2011.
This guide will get you started creating a newsletter in Microsoft Publisher and finding great images that are copyrighted for you to use.
Create Your Newsletter
It's easy to make a newsletter using Microsoft Publisher. Just follow these directions and ask Ms. Kitsis for help if you get stuck.
Open Microsoft Publisher.
Select File and New to open the available templates. Under the Most Popular area, double click Newsletters.
View the thumbnails and double click on the template you like best (scroll down to see more options).
Add your own text and pictures. Have fun!
Tip: You can delete pictures and paste in your own, or right click on an image and select Change Picture to swap out one you have saved to the computer.
Bonus: Children's Books Online
For more fairy and folk tales in many, many languages, check out the amazing International Children's Digital Library, co-founded by one of my professors at the University of Maryland.
What is Creative Commons?
Did you know that YOU are a copyright holder? According to United States law, you automatically hold the copyright to papers you write, pictures you take, and so on. But what if you want to make it okay for other people to use those images, words, or sounds?
That's where Creative Commons licensing comes in. It's not about what you can't do, but what you can.
Find Images Online
These sites allow you to search for images with Creative Commons licensing:
Flickr Advanced Search (use the search options below)
Other places to go for copyright friendly images:
Picture Collection Online (New York City Public Library)
Remember: All of these images still need to be attributed! An ideal citation would look something like this:
Get Creative by Creative Commons is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY) license.
But realistically, something like is often acceptable:
By johnmuk via CC license: www.flickr.com/photos/jm999uk/187980686.
Your goal is first to make sure the artist gets credit and second to communicate which freedoms are associated with the image, in other words, which license type was granted. Read more on best practices for attribution from Creative Commons.
Bonus: Who's Afraid of the Three Little Pigs?
Things don't end well for the Big Bad Wolf in this classic telling of "The Three Little Pigs" illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke. Image via Project Gutenberg.
Questions, comments, concerns? Email me at skitsis@arlington.k12.ma.us.
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