Activities

 

IMPORTANCE OF VISUAL ARTS	A PowerPoint presentation about the benefits of teaching with visual arts. This presentation may be viewed through a Web browser or downloaded and adapted to local needs.
HOW TO USE CORBIS IMAGE DATABASES	Discusses the importance of using royalty free images and where to find them. Also teaches the user how to search for these images.
LINKS TO OTHER IMAGE DATABASES	Descriptions and links to Web sites which host image databases.
CREATING PROJECTS	A PowerPoint presentation about using the four art disciplines when creating projects. This presentation may be viewed through a Web browser or downloaded and adapted to local needs.
EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS	Links to projects which connect to national and state proficiencies

How to use Corbis Image Database

What are the royalty free images? ( http://www.corbisimages.com/newtocorbis/rf/options.asp )

Searching for royalty free images? (http://www.corbisimages.com/search/ReadyToBuyEvents/fstDefault.asp)

Searching using a keyword, boolean, or advanced technique? How do you go about navigating through your seach results?

Do you want to download free watermarked images? (http://www.corbisimages.com/help/rf/licensing.asp)

Keyword Searching

• Enter one or more keywords in the Royalty Free Search box and click 'GO' to search our extensive collection of images.
• If you've entered more than one keyword, we will first search for any images that contain the phrase. If no results are obtained, a broad search will be conducted automatically for any images that contain one or more of the keywords.
• Search Results will display in the right hand frame.
• Refine Your Search using the suggested topics displayed in the left menu.
• To narrow your search results, use our Boolean Search features.
• Image results are displayed in the right hand frame after conducting a search. Customize the number of images displayed on each page of search results by clicking on 'Display Options.'

Boolean Searching

• Search for a Phrase

Enter a series of words to search on a phrase. Example: type 'sports events' to find that phrase. Since the search is not case-sensitive, this is equivalent to a search for 'Sports Events.' If no images are found containing the phrase, another search will be performed automatically for images related to 'sports' OR 'events.'

• (*) Single Asterisk

Use a single asterisk (*) as a wildcard to look for words that begin with the same letters. Example: Type key* to find 'key', 'keying', 'keyhole', 'keyboard', and so on.

• (**) Double Asterisk

Use a double asterisk (**) to look for all forms of a word. Example: Type fly** to match 'fly', 'flew', 'flown', and 'flying.'

• 'AND' Operator

Separate keywords with AND to locate only images that contain all your keywords. Example: Type 'fast AND car' to find images related to both 'fast' and 'car.'

• 'OR' Operator

Separate keywords with OR to locate all images related to one or more of your keywords. (The images don't need to be catalogued with all the words.) Example: Type 'fast OR car' to find images related to either 'fast' or 'car.'

• 'AND NOT' Operator

Use the words AND NOT between keywords to target your search. Example: Type 'cat AND NOT dog,' to find images related to 'cat' which have no reference to 'dog.'

• "Double Quotes"

Use double quotes if you want to use OR, AND, or AND NOT literally. Example: Type "houses and parks" to find images catalogued with the phrase 'houses and parks.' Without the double quotes, this query would use the AND operator instead of looking for the phrase.

• '( )' Parenthesis

Use '( )' parenthesis to control the order in which queries are processed. Expressions contained within parenthesis will be processed first. Example: Type '(fast OR car) AND NOT red' to find all images that are related to 'fast' or 'car' but do not contain the keyword 'red.' On the other hand, the query 'fast OR (car AND NOT red)' will return images that contain 'fast' or 'cars that are not red'. This subtle change in construction can yield very different results.

Advanced Searching

The Advanced Search selection provides access to Search Filters and Recent Searches.

•  Search Filters

To narrow your search, select filters from the form provided, enter keywords into the Royalty Free Search box and click GO. The following filters may be used in any combination and will apply only to the current search.

• Orientation

Select from Portrait or Landscape filters to restrict results by image orientation.

• Format

Select from Color or Black & White filters to restrict results by color of image.

• Search In

Select from one or more image categories to narrow your search. If a filtered search does not return any images, try a less restrictive set of filters or try Refine your Search using our intelligent indexing system.

• Recent Searches

For your convenience, we store the last ten (10) searches you entered into the Royalty Free Search box. To rerun a previous search, select Recent Search and choose the search term from the left menu.

Navigating Search Results

• Click 'Next' to move to the next page in your search results. On subsequent pages you can click 'Back' to access the previous page.
• To make it easier to navigate through your search results, we display a series of boxes above the thumbnails representing each page of results. The red box indicates the currently selected page. Click on another box to quickly skip to that page in your search results.

To view pricing details and download free comp images, click on 'View Details' beneath the desired image.

Image Database Links

The Amazing Picture Machine Search for photographs, paintings, maps, and other graphic images that are on the Internet.

American Memory Search the historical collection of images provided by the Library of Congress.

ArtsEdNet Search for artwork and exhibits by artist, title, or date. Includes images of student created art.

Artsource Search collection that contains images related to African studies, grafitti, french cave paintings, and architecture.

Corbis Image Database Search for photographs as well as fine art images from their 1.6 million images.

Detroit Institute of Arts Visual Resources Art Image Database Search the 60,000 works from the Detroit Institute of Arts by artists, title, or subject.

National Gallery of Art Locate works from the National Gallery of Art by artist, title, or subject.

Smithsonian Photo Database Seach collection of nearly 1,000 images on topics from art, to air and space, science, nature, technology, history, and people-places.

Evaluation Procedures

Each participant will research at least two different image databases. Images collected from the databases will be used to create a PowerPoint presentation.

Indiana Academic Standards

Indiana standards for visual arts K-8

Scope and sequence for middle grades by Getty's ArtsEdNet

National Standards for Visual Arts by Getty's ArtsEdNet

Support/Collaboration

Members of the Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) Libraries and Museums Community Project

This module was created by Elizabeth Seegers. Elizabeth is a Ball State graduate and the media specialist at Danville Community Middle School, Danville, Indiana. She has been involved as a project teacher for the IUPUI/IMLS Image Database Community Project and may be contacted to provide on-site workshops.

June Ward-Project Director

Aimee Burman-Project Teacher

Laurie Gatlin-Project Teacher

Stacy Ray-Project Teacher

Examples

"Exploring Indiana's Natural Resources" - 4th grade

"Geography with Monet"- Social Studies, Intermediate Grades

"Hispanic Artists" - 7th and 8th grade Spanish

"International Festival: Cultures of the World" - 7th grade Social Studies

"Introduction to Western Europe" - High School Geography and World History

"Monet's Bridges"- Science, Intermediate Grades

"Mythopoly - Where in the World Is Odysseus" - High School Language Arts

"Population Graphing" - 7th grade Math

"Portraits" - 3rd grade

"Studies of the Eastern World: Cultural Maps" - 7th grade Social Studies

"Studies of the Eastern World: Historical Summaries" - 7th grade Language Arts

"Hispanics in Indianapolis" - 8th grade Spanish & Social Studies

"Student Game Projects" from the IMLS database project at Plainfield High School.

Research and Resources

Art Journals Online provided by ArtSource.

Visual Understanding in Education articles to download.

Credits & Copyright

This toolkit may be used and adapted for staff development activites. Proper credit must be given on each page citing the source.

Last updated:March 17, 2002
All right reserved. For information, contact C Franklin