Thing #9- Creative Commons

So, I must admit I have not seen the CC on any of the websites that I visit. I even looked around for sites that may have CC on it. But no such luck. After I post this I'll find one, now that I'm not looking! :-) I must admit, I "borrow" images from the web all the time! I used to (before the county made changes to our computers) put images of what we were studying as the backgrounds to my student computers. I think that creative commons will help students when working on their projects. First, they are allowed to take music, videos and other medias and modify and change it to meet their needs. This is something they have not been allowed to do before creative commons. For example, they may want to use a video, but there is a chunk in the middle they do no need, if the video has the Creative Commons license that allows them to change and modify the video, the student can do it. Same for teachers. There may be something that you want to add to your powerpoint, smartboard notebook, or other media file to support what you are teaching. Now, you can do it more freely. This even works well if our students want to publish their projects on the web, they can and allow other people to use their ideas.

Besides pictures of the kids, and the activities that we do in the classroom, I do not publish anything to the web. The pictures I add to the web are done so that the parents can only see them, to protect the privacy of my students. However, I think that if I were to begin publishing on the web, that I would get a creative commons license because I think that Creative Commons is the future! The web is a great place for collaboration and sharing information. Currently everything is "all rights reserved", but soon, I think most sites will be "some rights reserved"