Dear Students,
We’ve already talked a bit in class about ethics, the school’s computing policy, and a long list of things you are strictly forbidden to do (no plagiarizing, no copyright infringement, no illegal file sharing, etc. etc.) It’s really not fair to just go on and on about what you CAN’T do, so what CAN you do? What if you need a picture for your club poster or a great song for your video project, and you don’t want to break the rules? Enter Creative Commons. Creative Commons licenses are a way for artists, musicians, authors and other creative types to put a label on their work marking it as free to share. It’s not stealing to use their work, because they want you to be able to use it, build on it, create something new from it.
These two short movies from Creative Commons (which some 6th graders saw in class already) provide a great, entertaining introduction to the power of Creative Commons. Check it out to learn more.
We’ll be using Creative Commons licensed works in class, and you’ll also have a chance to mark your own work as free to share, so that other people can take something that you made and make something new and different from it. As they say in the first video, “it’s what the Internet is all about!”
Posted on September 21st, 2007 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
Filed under: Dear Students
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