Thing 9 - CC (Creative Commons)

Ok, I'm guilty.  I'll admit that I go to Google to find images all the time to use in newsletters, blog posts, presentations, etc.  I didn't realize until my class last semester that that was against copyright.  I mean, the perfect images are there and if I have a way to display them in a good light, why shouldn't that be allowed?  Thankfully Creative Commons is available to help us out.  It is a site of images, documents, and videos that have been created for the purpose of sharing.  How nice is that?  As a teacher, we borrow and re-vamp each others things all the time, so I really appreciated when I found "Open Educational Resources (OER) — learning materials that are freely available to use, remix, and redistribute" on the Creative Commons site.  That is exactly how I thought things should be available. Maybe I had not considered this in great detail before because I don't do a lot of posting to the web, yet.  If I created something, I'm sure I would want the credit for doing so.  I plan to use Creative Commons in the future when looking for graphics to use,  I'll make sure the students understand how this tool should best be used, and I'll pay homage to the person who worked to make it available to me.  But, what do I do when the image I need isn't there?