Thing # 23 (The End--Creative Commons)

Thing # 23

Creative Commons

Putting the ‘social’ into social networks allows us to freely exchange information. But with the free exchange of information comes the responsibility of how we share it, and how we give credit to the author of that information. Check out this video, “A Fair(y) Use Tale” and learn some history of copyright.

In the classroom, we are often faced with the challenge of determining when it is acceptable to copy something and how much an item [book, website, music, video, etc.] we can copy. Faced with declining budgets and little time, we are tempted to make the copies. But with the advent of file sharing, downloading, and RSS, we must acknowledge and teach the ethics of information gathering and sharing.

Creative Commons is a copyright license that allows us to choose to share our intellectual property. This course is designed under a Creative Commons license and is an example of how one can take a piece of information or a product and re-work it to make it fit your needs. By acknowledging the original authors, they have given permission for you to share. One place for good information about what's going on with the Creative Commons is Lawrence Lessig's blog. Lawrence Lessig is one of the Creative Commons developers and a Stanford University professor.

Discovery Resources:

• Online copyright comic book developed by students at Duke University Law School.
• Creative Commons website
• Get Creative - covers the basics of Creative Commons
• Wanna Work Together?
• Flickr Creative Commons Photo Pool

Discovery Exercise:

• Find an example or attribution that shows the Learning 2.0-23Things for Teachers blog was based on someone else's work and modified from its original. 
• The previous red font I have pasted is an example of me basing my blog on someone elses work.
• Now that you know about Creative Commons licensing, how will you use it in the future as a teacher?
• I will implememnt it into my classroom by teaching my students the fine lines of what it means to copyright.

Thing # 22 (Almost done--Livebinders)

• Education 1,2,3 are the names of the folders I created.

• Ways I can use Livebinders: 
• Make binders for each class lesson for students to access if they are unable to attend class.
• For personal use 
• To document class records

Thing # 21 (Animoto??)

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.



I created a simple Animoto video that was 30 seconds long but I don't see how this could come in handy for educational purposes.

Thing #20 (End it with a BANG! on Youtube!)

Checks and Balances YouTube clip would come in handy for a light humorous approach to simply interesting students to the system of balance within the American Government.

Thing # 19 (Other Social Networks...)

My replies to Thing #19:

• Are you a member of any online communities?
• Yes, I am--GoodReads and TeacherPop
• Are any of these social networks appealing to you? 
• GoodReads, because I can rate books that I have read and the website helps me figure out which books I would like to read. It also gives me a list of books that I want to read this summer and it makes a list of my goals for me to keep up with!
• What did you find that was interesting and that you might use later?
•  I found the TeacherPop interesting, however, I don't really use it. 

• What did I not like:
• I did not like the Gather.com website. IT seemed more like another website that is not really secure. I understand that social networking is about being social and networking as in gathering ideas from other people, but I don't feel comfortable in sharing my information with people I don't know and just meet on some informative-data-collection website.