An Introduction to Creative Commons: What, Why, How

http://goo.gl/nFZ3oR
an introduction to
what, why, how…

Outline
1. What is Creative
Commons (CC)?
2. How to use CC
resources?
3. How to share
resources under CC?
4. What is Open
Educational
Resources (OER)?
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Questions and feedback?
Twitter (#celnie)
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Facebook
(facebook.com/centreforelearning)

Imagine this scenario...

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You need a photo
for your video project

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But you have less
than a day to complete ithttp://goo.gl/nFZ3oR

source: http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/185885-i-hate-sandcastles-success-kid
You find the
P E R F E C T
photo online

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You share your video online

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Your peers
think it is cool

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You get
hundreds of
"likes" and
100,000 views

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Then you receive this
email...

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What do you do?
(Reply in backchannel!)

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There is a
better way

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Internet & Digital
technologies have
transformed &
revolutionized how
people learn.

Everyday we
(and our students)
use
movies
pictures
music
text…
cc licensed image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssh/12638218/

Open Educational Resources
(OER)

Learning Materials that
are freely available to use,
remix, and redistribute.
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/What_is_OER%3Fhttp://goo.gl/nFZ3oR

An extension of
copyright
Provides licences
that creators can
use to give users
certain
permissions in
advance
View videos on CC here!
“my CC stickers have arrived!!!” by laihiu available at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laihiu/290630500/
under a CC Attribution 2.0 licensehttp://goo.gl/nFZ3oR

what is not
Not a replacement of copyright
Not a safeguard for copyrights abuse

You are
already
sharing
cc licenced image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcurtis4082/5251060072/
Why not
share more
logically?

Copyright, copy wrong
Copyright not designed for
education [example]
Copyright is out of sync
with the times
How do you define
"fair use"?
How do you decide
what is 10% of...?

More progressive value system
Openness
Connectedness
Starting with trust
video source http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKm96Ftfko
E.g., Gangnam Style video and its variants

Sharing is caring
Examples [1] [2]
Share so you benefit
Share so others benefit

How is CC relevant to teachers?
In the context of
education
In the context of
your e-portfolio

six free licences

What are the CC licences?
video source http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTlXtEOplA

This license lets others
distribute, remix, tweak,
and build upon your work,
even commercially, as long
as they credit you for the
original creation.

remix, tweak, and build
upon your work even for
commercial purposes, as
long as they credit you and
license their new creations
under the identical terms.

This license allows for
redistribution, commercial
and non-commercial, as
long as it is passed along
unchanged and in whole,
with credit to you.

This license lets others remix,
tweak, and build upon your
work non-commercially, and
although their new works must
also acknowledge you and be
non-commercial, they don’t
have to license their derivative
works on the same terms.

remix, tweak, and build
upon your work non-
commercially, as long as
they credit you and license
their new creations under
the identical terms.

This license is the most
restrictive of our six main
licenses, only allowing others
to download your works and
share them with others as long
as they credit you, but they
can’t change them in any way
or use them commercially.

how to use resources

Search CC
http://search.creativecommons.org/

Search CC
http://www.imagecodr.org/search.html

how to share under

Benji Chan
Instructional Designer | Assistant Head
Centre for e-Learning
@pea
facebook.com/wittyben
Terms of use of this
presentation
This document is created under the terms of following
Creative Commons License
An Introduction to Creative Commons: What, Why, How by
Benji Chan is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
License.

How to share under CC
http://creativecommons.org/choose/http://goo.gl/nFZ3oR

Resources
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org
Curated resources on CC
http://delicious.com/ashleytan/cc
CC: What Every Educator
Needs to Know
http://www.slideshare.net/thecleversheep/creative
-commons-what-every-educator-needs-to-know-
presentation

Questions?
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Credits
This slide deck is based partly on presentations by Dr Ashley Tan & Ms Shamini Thilarajah,
“Creative Commons” by Katarina Evengard, “Creative Commons in the Classrooms” by Jessica Coates,
and “Share Remix Reuse: Creative Commons in Your Library” by Tiffany Emerick & Lauren Strohecker.
CC-licensed images credited on each page sourced with imagecodr.org
Other images are from the presenter, CeL, or Creative Commons resource pages

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