Pixabay for SuperTeachers!

A Teacher is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values. But a SuperTeacher is like a real Superhero — one with powers, skills, abilities, technologies, or resources greater than those possessed by ordinary mortals, who uses these qualities to help mankind.

Teachers really know how to be superheros in everyday life, but they do not have x-ray vision, super-speed, or enhanced hearing. Their secret is in using techtools superpowers. An Pixabay is in their arsenal!

Using Pictures in Teaching

The old saying “ a picture is worth a thousand words” seems to work in classroom too. Doesn’t matter how old the students are — 5 or 35 — pictures help to capture students’ attention and make the study process funnier.

Pictures, images, and illustrations of any kind are the most effective and plentiful medium for teaching. And it’s one of the less expensive medium as well, if you use the images legally of course. And here Pixabay helps the SuperTeachers!

Use Images — be Legal!

Use Pixabay images and you’ll never will have problems with copyright. All images at Pixabay can be legally used absolutely for free and without attribution.

The skill of legally and efficiently obtaining images is something students need to be fluent at, otherwise, time and focus can be taken away from learning goals.
— Kathleen Morris —

And Pixabay has these all!

• 1.4 million royalty free stock photos, illustrations, vector graphics, and videos;
• A daily growing selection of free CC0 video and footage.

But that’s not all. You can not only quickly find a picture on every topic, but also use different filters for better results.

• search a picture by color (red, yellow, etc);
• search a picture by a size you need;
• search by general category;
• search by type (photo, illustration, vector graphic, or video);
• search by orientation you need (horizontal/vertical).

Use Safe Search

All images and videos on Pixabay are manually approved, so you will not find any strong violence and/or adult oriented contents. However, nude photography and other visual contents also presents at the site In order to filter out these search results, you can make use of SafeSearch filter. There are several ways to do it:

• general SafeSearch option;
• an option that allows teachers to share a URL with their students which will prevent them from turning the safe search option off;
• an option for the IT department to enforce SafeSearch on the entire network by updating the current DNS configuration.

Pixabay BONUS for Power Point and Microsoft office

Being able to search for an image without having to open a new window could help keep students focused on the task of creating a presentation without getting distracted by a full web search. And since Pixabay images are in the public domain, you and your students don’t have to worry about copyright infringement issues.
— Richard Byrne —

The Pixabay Word and PowerPoint plug-in let you search Pixabay images directly from within these apps — and you can download and insert any photo you like with a simple click into your current project. You can easily resize, crop images, and so on directly in you presentations and documents.

SuperTeachers-Bloggers about Pixabay

This is another excellent site.
- High quality images are donated by photographers
- Sign up is optional
- Images can be used freely without attribution
- It’s easy to search and navigate
Pixabay also includes free videos, illustrations and vector graphics. Another benefit is the availability of a free app.
— Kathleen Morris —

It’s important for students to have places where they can find content and use it legally. Pixabay offers districts a way to make this popular resource safe for students to use.
— Richard Byrne —

Pixabay looks a bit like Google. The only difference is that all the images are free to download, modify, distribute, and use them royalty free for anything you like, even in commercial applications. Pixabay also has a range of small downloadable videos.
— Lucy Renald —

Become a SuperTeacher together with Pixabay. Use our free content to generate great ideas!