Creative+Commons

=Creative Commons =

Addressing Copyright Issues Today
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 From the [|Creative Commons web site]: Creative Commons is a **nonprofit** corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. We provide **free** licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.

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**Check out Joyce Valenza's Copyright Friendly Pathfinder.**
It has a **//wealth//** of resources, links and information about the ethical use of images, sound, video, text, etc. for students and educators! We couldn't possibly do a more thorough job ourselves, so this is an **invaluable link!** jcc

[|Creative Commons SEARCH] page
Search Google, Yahoo, Flicker, Blip.tv, OWL Music, or SpinXpress all from one page!

[|FLICKRSTORM] Flickr Creative Commons SEARCH
This is a wonderfully useful tool for educators, since you can search Flickr CC images, place them in your "tray," and have your students link to your tray instead of linking directly to Flickr, which they can't do on our network. The catch: sometimes I've had trouble with this site being blocked too. There's no way to see if this works at school right now other than to TRY IT!

Here is an example of some pictures that I created a tray for. All these pictures are tagged GREEN...thinking about St. Patty's Day! Click [|here] or [|here].

Need a little help getting started on

FLICKRSTORM? Here are some videos from David Jakes!
[|David Jakes' Blog] is here. Jakes has some GREAT tips for managing the use of these images--practical ideas for the teacher--within these 3 videos. He's a great resource!

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