Finding freely available content to use can be quite daunting for educators and self-publishers. While initiatives like Creative Commons and web sites with great information like SmartCopying look to de-mystify what content is available to use, many educators are still struggling.
I was looking for a photo myself when I can across an online marketer […]
Copyright and the wheres, whens and hows of it all can be a minefield for both educators and learners. Allow a student to use something under NEALS - and it cannot be displayed on the internet. Create a video and use the wrong music — and have it pulled or edited.
Creative Commons offers […]
18 February 2009 – 9:04 am
In choosing just the right texts to support learners, have you ever taken price tag into consideration? And, do you find that you have to recommend two or three in order to cover all that you’d like?
Consider some options from outside traditional publishing: flatworld knowledge and Connexions.
flatworld
knowledge
provides free online textbooks for tertiary students, and then […]
2 December 2008 – 1:10 pm
Yay for the new US President-elect’s web site advisory team! And an onya to the New Media Consortium here in Australia. Both are using Creative Commons licensing to de-mystify the uses to which the materials they produce can be used by the public.
The NMC’s newly released Australia-New Zealand regional version of the Horizon Report […]
Need some inspiration? Digital stories based on the theme “What I love about teaching and learning” should do the trick. These stories were created by first time digital storytellers as part of the edna 2008 workshop series.
I had so much fun working with this switched on, energetic group as they tackled the theme in 20 […]
28 February 2008 – 12:13 pm
Presenting Creative Commons license information to a lively group of librarians last night got me thinking about where the rubber hits the road in terms of how cc licensing can protect not only the creators and/or owners of digital works like photos - but the SUBJECTS of those works.
For instance, just using a cc Attribution (by) […]
16 February 2008 – 11:45 am
In the course of catching up on reading and email after 6 days unplugged, I came across an article in the Metaverse Journal about an upcoming forum on the use of Web 2.0 technologies and virtual worlds in the corporate sector being put on by the Future Exploration Network.
The topic ”Business value from blogs and wikis […]
