Activity #11

I have not seen the CC logo, but I will look for it now.  It was interesting to search through CC for an image to use; I wanted to find something that I could use in World History, but all of the image ideas that came to mind ended up being so old (medieval European illuminated manuscripts, paintings of Napoleon) that they are public domain, according to CC, and therefore the CC licencing didn't apply.  I will have to think more about how to use audio and video clips I can find here.  However, I do think that teaching kids about fair use, including CC, is very important as we more forward in this digital age.  Especially as I do more projects where they capture images from online, they need to know what is legal and what isn't and how to do things the moral, and legal, way.  A downside I saw to using CC is that some of the images I use in power points (which is a main way I use images in my teaching) are diagrams, and I didn't see many diagrams that were included in the CC searches.  So, perhaps I should think about constructing my own diagrams and licensing them through CC so that they can be used by others.  I believe all my teaching materials are eligible for use, reuse and modification by others.  So many people have shared with me over the years I can't be certain that anything I do is totally a product of my own creation.  For me, teaching is a community activity, and I want to share my work with others and have it be used by others.  That's part of the reason why CC is so exciting to me.

My quiz score was an 8/10.  I didn't totally understand what a CC license gives the down-loader the ability to do, but after taking the quiz and reading the correct answers for the ones I got wrong, now I do!  This seems like a great resource to revise and spruce up some of the power points I use each year, which now I know certainly need to be re-done because I am outside of Fair Use since they are older than two years.  

Here is the image I captures from CC.  It isn't connected to my teaching at all, it just reminds me of a cat we used to have who would sit like this occasionally.  I think it's funny.  :)

By Photographer: Lynne R. Lawrie (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons