Thing #23

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.
• Now that you know about Creative Commons licensing, how will you use it in the future as a teacher?

This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

 

The information above, the professor that has laid out our 23 thing for Apsu,  Ms. Wall, has cited the Creative Commons website with a link to give credit to them while sharing it with us in her own context.

As a future teacher I plant to inform my students about creative commons by showing them how to give credit to people like authors and websites when I ask them to write a paper or do a project. I think it is very important to inform students about the right and wrong ways to give an author credit on their work and it is something the will use later on so it is important that they understand how serious it is.