Creative Commons in Education & the Classroom

I often get asked about what type of content is legal to use on School & Teacher’s websites. I explain that it is not ok to use copyrighted material that other people own on their websites. I try to explain to them what Creative Commons (CC) is and why they should think about using CC content and why they should think about licensing their content they post on the web with a Creative Commons license. At Edmodo we are big fans of creative commons licenses and license all our content under a Creative Commons License.

Enter Creative Commons:
“Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.” Wikipedia

Hopefully the following video and document will help explain to you what Creative Commons is why you should use and license the works you create on the web with a Creative Commons License.

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Using & creating Creative Commons Licensed material in the classroom will allow you and your students to use, remix, share, and ultimately learn from using and publishing other Creative Commons content.

Resources:
http://creativecommons.org/
Search for Creative Commons Licensed Work
License Your work under Creative Commons
Wikipedia Article

February 28, 2009 | Filed Under general, press

Comments

Devon Adams

Zemote- Thanks for posting after my mornings copyright frustration with my tech workshop. I appreciate this since too many of our fellow educators do not know what the Creative Commons licenses are. I too will be posting soon on this. I made a video recently on how to search CC on Flickr. Feel free to grab it from here... http://www.viddyou.com/viddstream?videoid=56385