Discussion: OPTIONAL - Creative Commons

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2014-03-11T13:40:47-06:00

OPTIONAL Presentation

If you want to review what we talked about Creative Commons, here's some information for you.

Creative Commons is an alternative to traditional copyright. It allows a creator to license his/her stuff in different ways. So you can say, "Hey, I made this thing, and I don't care if you use it, as long as you cite me and share it with others." This would be the "Attribution-Share alike" license. Or, a creator might pick a different kind of license altogether. The point is it is their choice.

We love creative commons (which is usually identified by two c's in a circle, instead of just one) because as teachers, we want to try and teach as many people as we can. That's why all of our tutorial videos, for example, are licensed creative commons. In fact, this entire Canvas course is licensed Creative Commons. So you can reuse anything we have created ourselves within this course, as long as you cite us and don't sell it and share it with others too. We hope you will feel the same way about the things you create, so the things you create in this class we will ask you to license creative commons. You can choose the license, from any of the options Creative Commons gives you.

To learn more about Creative Commons, watch one or both of these videos. The first is an overview of Creative Commons, and the second explains different places where you can find creative commons stuff, which is cool because when you use CC stuff, you have greater freedom in how you can use it.

What is CC?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKm96Ftfko

Rick's presentation on CC

http://voicethread.com/book.swf?b=2583051

Here are the links to the websites cited in the presentation so you can find them:

http://creativecommons.org/ (you can search for media right in this website!)
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search
Flickr.com (use the advanced search, scroll down, and click on “creative commons”)
Wikimedia commons
Freeplaymusic (add an item to your cart, and then in your cart you can choose how you will use the song)
Freesound.org (a great site for adding sound effects)
Fotolia (regular copyrighted stock photography, but cheap enough that you can afford to use it)
Google URL shortener (this is helpful for citing media, so you can link to the original without using a really long link)
LibriVox (Free books that in the the public domain, both audio and text)
Project Gutenberg (Free books that are in the public domain)
Youtube videos (after searching for a video, click on filter at the top and select creative commons)

http://www.jamendo.com/en/ for free music.

Also, you can search for CC media at http://creativecommons.org.

There are many others! This link lists 30 places to find Creative Commons media! http://www.sitepoint.com/30-creative-commons-sources/

Post any questions below that you have or any other sites you know of where you can find royalty-free or creative commons media.