Thing 10

Creative Commons is such an amazing concept. I've noticed on the right hand side of some of my browser's there is a Creative Common's search box. I never knew what it was, nor explored it prior to know. Copyright is such an overshadowing part of our society, always in the back of our minds, especially as teachers. I know how hard it is to want to share something that has that "not for reproduction" or "not for distribution" etc., on the bottom right hand corner of it's pages. I haven't ever noticed the CC logo, but I will be looking for it now. I'm guessing the pages, that bring up the search box I mentioned earlier, are probably, Creative Commons sites. Hmmm................ I think Creative Commons provides us with the opportunity to do so much more for our students, and for them to share, reuse and remix what they and others have created. I use pictures often in my teaching, Science simply can not be taught with out visuals, and I often find myself wondering if the pictures I use are "okay" to use; now I have a place to go to find pictures and KNOW that they are "okay". In Lawrence Lessig's blog he mentioned that certain books that are copyrighted, can not be read aloud!!! OMG!!! My only response to this nonsense, is Why???? I share content quite frequently with my students and their parents on my classroom blog. When reading this "thing", I found myself questioning if the items I was putting on there were okay to share, "Where did I find that picture?" "Can I link to that website?" etc. The videos really helped me to understand the concept behind Creative Commons and how now we have "some rights reserved" versus "all rights reserved".