Understanding Creative Commons Licensing

[Carla Arena]

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What do you understand by Creative Commons?
Why is it important in the Classroom?
How does it change the way students' digital work is published and how they search for resources to add to their projects?

[Al]

Thanks a lot for showing me this new rediscovering of our common work! For many centuries all human knowledge has developed by sharing, by face to face contact ad gratious giving. But at present, with a much complex situation, Creative Commons answer is what we need. Not only for education, but to fullfill our deep human need to give, support and share in all fields! It is a celebration of our common roots and common destiny! Great!

[Gail Poulin]

I understand that CC makes the use of other peoples work a clearer option. If it has been tagged for reuse, or remixing, you will know and understand your options.

Students can create work and share it all or in part, as they desire. Students can reuse or remix the work of others as they research a project or idea as long as they check the CC rules for each piece of referenced material.

[Irina]

I got it! Creative Commons means Some Rights Reserved - you can download something from teh Interenet and then use it or change it as you like! Great tool for sharing!

[Carla Arena]

This is the idea, Irina. However, you just need to be careful with the different Creative Commons Licenses. Not all of them let you remix work. It depends on what the creator has given you permission to do.

[Fernando Gómez]

Also, It is a way to share something about us by letting to know everyone that the author allows the use of the material.

[bj neary]

I think your tags say alot about creative commons and how students can use it to make more insightful , exciting projects, research, and information come alive with their own mix and ideas and then you add in all CC and you getr great combinations!

[Carla Arena]

Exactly, Fernando. I just love the fact that by using Creative Commons licensed materials we're playing safe and are never in danger of doing something "illegal". It's just a matter of giving proper credit to the creator.

[Carla Arena]

Dear all, one of the participants in the group asked if there was a proper way to give credit to photos under Creative Commons License. Some very interesting tips and ideas were shared here. Kathy Epps gave wonderful suggestions!

[Holly Below]

I so appreciate Creative Commons because it is the one place online that I will permit my elementary kids to search for images. Our school internet is not filtered, and I realize there are no guarantees, but the Yahoo images tab seems to have lots of flickr photos for the topics in kid searches, and it is rare to find an objectionable image there. On those rare occasions I get an opportunity to teach about what to do with inappropriate material, but I'm not running around the lab dissipating angst continually when using cc. I wish, though, that they would filter out all the big C material so I'd feel better about letting kids use whatever they find.

[STELLA]

Wow! I've never thought about it! I used to think that as long as you used the material for educational purposes, it was OK.
Very clear explanations. I may ad a short reflection: remixing is in a way creating>>>isn't it the purpose of teaching? I mean givingour students the tools and letting them DO things.
stella :-)

[Selinda England]

Question 1)
Creative Commons allows users to select (with some restrictions) material for sharing with others. Users can also collaborate with other artists and create new works by sharing materials.

Question 2)
Important for several reasons:
a) students need to be aware of copyrights/ plagerism (in some Asian countries, it's not widely used).
b) students can meet (online/digitally) other users with similar interests or artistic endevors and create new materials via sharing.
c) student created materials can be shared with others who may not have the means of creating his/her own items. Examples of this could be: music/art which is indigenous to the culture of a specific country, research...

Our students should be extra careful when using images/ music/ others for personal purposes. Everyone is an author/ originator--students should understand the differences between collaboration and personal licence. On the other hand, this could open up whole new sharing possiblities for our students. Creative writing can take on a whole new global perspective. Projects and research can be more team based--students won't have to feel as if they are the "only one" working on a topic.

[Monica Lepcaliuc]

It's only natural that a person should have all rights reserved on whatever he/she creates. It's a great thing that it exists, neveretheless I think that it's better for people to agree on the fact that if they use sb's photos/creations, they should also share some alike - and all these for noncommercial purposes.