Monday, June 18, 2012

Thing #23


The example that I found was from the PLCMC Learning 2.0 website http://plcmcl2-about.blogspot.com/.  It was built to encourage staff to experiment with technologies that might be unknown to that staff. Helene Blowers, the technology director from PLCMC designed the program and based it off of an article http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FWE/is_2_10/ai_n16133338/ written by Stephen Abram’s.  The site author has a Creative Commons license that allows for sharing as long as the user attributes the work to the original author. This cannot be used for profit and work cannot altered without the consent of the author.
Creative Commons is a new thing for me and the knowledge gained by it has helped me pay closer attention to mistakes made by unknowing copycats. I will teach this in my English classes at the beginning of the year to expose my students to ethics on the Internet. As I post things to the web (i.e. original lesson plans, YouTube videos and educational activities) I will take the time to attach a Creative Commons attribution tag on my work. 

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