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14 Tools to Teach about Creative Commons

14 Tools to Teach about Creative Commons

Free and Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning As an e-Learning consultant I was always a fan of open source software. Why? The answer is simple. Because I could use them as I wish, for whatever I wish, without long-term commitments and with the extra bonus of a community of professionals that use, extend and support them. In this post I am not going to talk about open source learning management systems such as eFront[1] but rather dedicated open source “authoring tools”. => If you know a free or open source authoring tool that is not included in the list I will highly appreciate if you write a comment with a link! Free & Open Source Authoring Tools for e-Learning What2Learn makes it easy for e-Learning developers to create interactive games and quizzes and track learners’ attainment. xical.org ClassTools.net Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! eXe Wink CourseLab Quandary An application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. Hot Potatoes

lansdownelibrary.wikispaces Classroom/Literacy Support teacher Kristy Kilpatrick and I (Librarian/Technology Teacher) piloted book trailers this year and had great success with it. Kristy's grade 6 students created a book trailer for a picture book and her grade 7 students created a book trailer for a novel. We have ironed out most of the glitches for the project. a) What is a book trailer and how is it different than a book talk? This is a good question! b) Watch professional, teacher created, and student created book trailers and have students evaluate them. As an introduction to the concept of booktrailers, watch the examples below with your class. Examples of professional book trailers Love, StargirlThe Book ThiefShiverLingerMockingjayThe Young Sherlock Holmes Examples made by teachers Naomi Bates is an expert in creating book trailers. Examples made by middle school students How do you create a book trailer? The next step discusses the process used to create a book trailer. Let's Get Started Pre Planning Copyright

New Creative Commons License Chooser Creative Commons is proud to announce the launch of our new license chooser tool. The license chooser has been completely redesigned for greater clarity and ease of use. While the original license chooser was successful at simplifying the act of selecting a license and applying it to one’s work, its linear workflow resembled a registration process. Furthermore, as the tool had been extended numerous times, its interface became more and more cluttered. From left to right: The original chooser’s selection page, the previous chooser’s results page, and the recently redesigned interactive license chooser.CC BY First and foremost, the license chooser is not a registration tool. The license chooser does not generate licenses. We’ve gotten a few questions about the “This is a Free Culture license” and “This is not a Free Culture license” messages on the chooser. Our license deed pages already contained information about whether the license was a Free Culture license or not.

Podcasting Legal Guide - CcWiki Colette Vogele, Esq. Vogele & Asso Stanford Center for Internet And S Mia Garlick Creative C Stanford Center for Internet And S The Berkman Center Clinical Program in Cy Acknowledgements Foreword, By Lawrence Lessig Welcome to the Podcasting Legal Guide. Purpose The purpose of this Guide is to provide you with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting. US-Law Only This Guide covers only US-based legal questions. This Guide Does Not Provide Legal Advice This Guide provides general information about legal topics but it is not a complete discussion of all legal issues that arise in relation to podcasting nor is it a substitute for legal advice. Please also note that this Guide attempts to provide an overview of how the law is likely to treat many of the issues that arise in relation to podcasting.

Classeur : PUBLIC DOMAIN IMAGES Book Trailers for Readers - How to make a book trailer By Teacher Librarian Michelle Harclerode: www.booktrailersforreaders.com - Keep scrolling all the way down for lots of goodies & links to websites. Are you an author?Educational Standards met with digital presentations : Florida SSS ----- Common Core Standards This is the big picture above. Scroll down for a 7 part break down on how to make a book trailer. Background on Book Trailers Book Trailers are an excellent way to communicate the excitement of reading while promoting new or favorite books. Student Made Book Trailers: Hints and Handouts Look at our Student Made Book Trailers to get ideas. What I have learned about making book trailers : Go explore book trailer sites to get inspired. Photo Story 3 Tips : We still use photostory 3 [with Windows 7] windows photo live has replaced photostory 3 Featured Websites to Explore:

From Post-Growth Society to Sufficiency Politics 1. September 2016 By Angelika Zahrnt When our book Post-Growth Society was published in 2010 in German, the term was entirely unheard of. Today, Post-Growth is the harsh reality in many countries, but this phenomenon is considered to be transitory. Additional governmental expenditures, however, are limited by public debt. Some (few) politicians, scientists and business people start to think about a long-term prospective without growth. Nevertheless, civil society is increasingly discussing the Post-Growth Society – whether at degrowth conferences (such as currently in Budapest), in various initiatives and projects or on this blog. Interestingly, consumption as the engine of growth in industrialized societies has been a target of criticism from early on, both in theoretical discussions and in individual or collective projects of sustainable living. Sufficiency: From practical experience and theory to a policy field Despite these obstacles, sufficiency is gaining momentum. Author

Commons Copyright Law Versus Internet Culture Throughout human history, culture has been made by people telling one another stories, building on what has come before, and making it their own. Every generation, every storyteller puts their own spin on old tales to reflect their own values and changing times. This creative remixing happens today and it happens in spite of the legal cloud cast by copyright law. Many of our modern cultural icons are “owned” by a small number of content companies. Here are just a few ways remixers are taking culture into their own hands: * Fan fiction – Kirk and Spock can be gay and Uhura can captain the Enterprise, or that boa constrictor from the zoo scene can become Harry’s familiar instead of taking off for Brazil. * Photoshop battles – one goofy-looking squirrel might find itself reworked as a Jedi Knight, an astronaut landing on the moon, or out hunting with Vladimir Putin. When the law assigns some people the power to control what stories others tell, it distorts culture.

The Educator’s Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons Lately, we’ve been hearing more and more about digital copyrights and fair use in the news and online – particularly with the whole SOPA/PIPA uproar that recently swept the web. Also, we on the Edublogs support team have been getting more and more complaints and official requests to remove copyrighted content that users have placed on blogs. The legal jargon with respect to digital copyrights can be confusing – especially since different countries have their own laws and regulations. With this post, we hope to dispel a few myths and pull together a complete list of resources for teachers and students to use when blogging and working with content online. Rule #1: You Can’t Use Everything You Find On the Web Dexter the cat hates those that steal his photos… This may seem obvious, but judging by the notices we have received, many teachers (and especially students) are under the impression that if it is on the web, then it is up for grabs. Rule #2: There Are Resources You CAN Use Images Videos

Esotismo Radicale (III) - L’alterità e gli assiomi dell’economia libidinale | Chaosmotics Italia Qui Parte IQui Parte II Anerkennung. Parola tedesca d’uso comune, significa riconoscimento. La usa anche Hegel, e ne fa un momento importante dell’individuazione. a) un’individualità si affaccia al mondo e fa esperienza dell’alterità, solo che non riesce a mantenerlo indipendente da sè, se non cancellandolo o perdendocisi. b) il tentativo di negazione dell’alterità in quanto tale e della dipendenza da essa si scontra con il paradosso legato al fatto che l’alterità è ormai parte dell’orizzonte dell’Io: negare l’alterità significa negare l’Io. c) l’Io ritorna effettivamente in sé, liberandosi della dipendenza dall’altro soltanto attraverso il libero lasciar-essere l’alterità. Le prime figure della Fenomenologia non sono figure storiche, il che significa che non sono limitate in un determinato orizzonte temporale. L’Anerkennung hegeliana funziona fintanto che si pensa al riconoscimento come ad un conoscere che ferma, prima l’alterità, poi l’Io, e quindi loro due insieme. Bibliografia

Copyright Advice for Teachers (What is Fair Use?) : Teach Digital Copyright is a difficult concept for teachers to grasp as a result of the grey areas associated with its relationship with education, even I don’t completely understand it. Ignorance is bliss! Perhaps if you secretly know you are in breech of copyright then it might be advisable to stop reading this article now! This advice is not needed if you have some understanding of the function of Creative Commons and media in the public domain. Most of us know that once a piece of work has been created it is immediately protected by Copyright. Other works can also be in the Public Domain if the copyright owner surrenders their right to the material, which is the general concept of Creative Commons, but again this often comes with conditions that students should be made aware of. Now, lets investigate the grey area of education purposes. If the material is being used for teaching, criticism, commentary, reporting or research then it would be considered fair use. US Copyright Law US Fair Use Advice

The Fears and Hopes of Universal Basic Income We've mentioned the idea of Universal Basic Income, or universal income guarantee, here before at Big Think. You might say that we enjoy mentioning it a lot. The idea goes back to the 1400s and has been taken up by many big thinkers throughout history, from Martin Luther and Martin Luther King to Thomas Moore and Milton Friedman. But, what do the polls say? More recently, a poll showed 68% of Europeans support the idea of a basic income, and 31% of them want it as soon as possible. A rally in favor of the defeated Swiss referendum; there are eight million coins here, one for each Swiss citizen. Well, that seems a little odd, given all the good you often hear about it. The simplest reason for the supporting the idea, and the one that 52% of interviewed people cite, is increased financial security. On the political right, basic income is supported as the element which makes hypothetical models of ideal markets practical. A final area of support is found in the futurist community.

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