Week 2: Creative Commons in Context (10 March)
Watch one of the following recorded webinars on the history and context of CC licenses.
- Creative Commons Licensing and Open Educational Resources (@One webinar, recorded 2010) - Skip to 14:00 or 15:00 minutes to get to the meat.
- Creative Commons for Social Media Art Camp (for artists and arts organizations, recorded 2010)
For discussion in the Google Group
- Discuss reactions and questions to "Creative Commons and copyright are friends."
- Discuss Creative Commons history and its role in education.
Your task for the week:
(due Sunday, 16 March)
- Complete the Get CC Savvy challenge from last week, starting with Task 2: Breaking down the CC licenses.
- For Task 4: Are you really CC Savvy? -- try explaining CC to your class, colleagues, or friends. Blog about their response at the cc4k12 blog or your own blog.* Had they heard of CC before? What questions did they have? What questions do you still have? Tip: If you're having trouble, show them the Get Creative video from Task 1, or any one of these videos about CC, and discuss it afterwards.
*Remember to post a link to your blog post below if you are using your own blog.
Additional resources:
- "Encouraging Student Creativity with Creative Commons" by Andy Carvin at PBS Teachers
- Need more background on copyright to grasp Creative Commons? Read chapters one and two (What is Copyright? and Sharing with Creative Commons) of Shared Creations: Making Use of Creative Commons by Emily Puckett Rodgers and Kristin Fontichiaro. Don't worry, the book is designed for kids and is mostly animated. A chapter takes less than 10 minutes to read! (You can also purchase the hard copy at Cherry Lake Publishing.)
- Copyright FAQs answered in the form of YouTube videos by New Media Rights
Suggested activities for the classroom:
- If you flip to pp. 9, 14, and 22 of the book above, you'll see three simple and fun activities you can try with your kids to help them better understand copyright and Creative Commons.
- If you're already well versed in copyright, you might try EFF's True or False Copy Quiz for the classroom.