- Have you noticed the CC logo on any websites you visit? I have not noticed the CC logo on any websites. I haven’t been looking because I had absolutely no idea about Creative Commons at all up until an hour ago.
- Did you wonder what it meant? In all honesty, I probably would have thought it meant Closed Captioned just like it does on my t.v.
- Do you think CC will impact the way students learn and create projects? It has to have an impact. Five years ago my students were just beginning to text each other. Now it is an everyday part of their lives. CC would allow them to “test” their ideas and see what happens.
- How? I can see them using this without school direction at all. Our very creative students would now have an outlet for song writing, poetry, visual arts. etc.
- Do you use digital images, audio or video clips from the web in your teaching (or professional practice)? I use video clips quite a bit. I have found some very good websites with teaching videos on them. I post links to relevant material on edline. My textbook also has a web-based site with additional videos for each lesson I teach. I will use them to introduce or reteach in class. Sometimes I realize I’m not getting them to understand the concepts. It’s good to have another “voice” so to speak with a different approach to the method. I only use images if I need to define a term without words.
- Do you ever share content on the web? I’ve posted some images of my own on my blog and my wiki page. I guess that counts as sharing.
- Who owns your teaching materials? Good question. I create things everyday to use in my classroom. I even created an entire set of math quizzes when I taught 5th grade. Some teachers from another school found out about them and I forwarded my entire folder to them. I can’t really say they were ever mine at all. I shared them with all my colleagues and then others as well. They were free to edit them for content. Maybe I’ve been doing this for a long time, but never really had a name for it.
- What are some potential negatives for using CC? I would never want anything I created to be used to harm another individual. Lyrics to songs have been used as excuses to perform incredible acts of destruction. That’s not a good answer……. I’m really not sure.
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