Creative Commons

Copyright in the digital age is very difficult to undertstand. Traditionally, any creative idea or work solely belongs to its creator. However, how do we enable control and attribution to exist in a world of collaborative creation and universal unregulated access. One answer to this has been the development of the Creative Commons. These notes have been assembled and linked for the use of the Canada and World Studies PLC in April 2008.

• Began 2001



• Has connections to Harvard Law and Stanford Law the offices are in San Francisco



• The gist of Creative commons is to provide protection of work used in collaborative environments



• Public Domain...........Creative Commons...................Full Copyright this is the continuum of control.



• Many projects that involve sharing of data such as the Nuerocommons and the Sematic Web are closely aligned with the Creative Commons which provided the context within the sharing takes place.



• Creative Commons is International in scope and involved in many projects

Creative Commons in the academic world is being handled by the project kpwn as ccLearn. At this location you can learn about the steps being taken and see links to many interesting writings that allude to the transformative nature of technology in the lives of today's students.

There are several short videos on the site that outline how it works.

It is very helpful to view these. It is very important that you come to discuss Creatives Commons rights as a way to inform students and entitle them to use many resoures. They would otherwise possibly "lift" resources from the internet and this enables students to understand how to work morally within this context.

Wikepedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons provides considerable insight into the creative commons in its entry including history and rationale along facts about about the size of this movement.

To Use access the following website http://search.creativecommons.org/#

Notes and Original Ideas

Ideas generated from or by reading the Blogs, Wikis and Podcast work of Will Richardson and canversations withing the school board. It is interesting to note that in the last little while there have been teachers embracing the use of Web 2.0 and we are also being asked about the Creative Commons copyrighting.

The internet is and has been a transformative technology and now it is evolving to its next iteraction it has not happened overnight but is gaining in awareness through the profile of social networking:

a) There are incredible opportunities and we need to enable students to truly work in these spaces. My personal fear is that the movement into these spaces will reduce time spent in natural spaces and therefore our connection with the natural world at a time when this connection is of paramount importance. Perhaps the natural world could one of the focussed uses of this powerful transformative technology.

b) Education is out of touch with the learning spaces. Studnents are making much of their relevant learning in spaces that educators know nothing of...This increases the Digital Divide between institutions and society.

c) Present forms of filtering are in effective and costly. Opportunities for educators to become conversant with 21st century literacy are being missed and counterrevolutionary movements are being made.

d) Safety is of utmost importance but it needs to be transportable beyond the walls of the institution both virtual and tangible walls. If we take a restrictive approach will this enable the transferance of shills and attitudes to navigate and use tools efficiently.

e) Web 2.0 applications are easy but, the degree of sophistication of users makes them so. We have reached a point in the use of GUI operating systems that the dificulty that may exist is long gone.

f) Hyperlinking and hypermedia is very important and educators should be writing in hyperlinks and promoting 21 st century literacy especially when we consider audience and the global voice that those in the blogoshere have.

g) A blog can also be used as a homebase on the web and a place to bring in information to using RSS.