Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Copyright and Creative Commons

As technology continues to evolve at an ever increasing pace, the area of  copyright can be a minefield for educators.With constant online connectivity and students now publishing beyond their classrooms,students need to know what they can legitimately copy when creating their own work.
Luckily there are a number of excellent resources to assist us :
Smartcopying - The official resource for Australian schools and TAFE
Australian Copyright Council - An excellent resource explaining all things to do with copyright

Copyright and Copyleft - This is a one stop shop intended to provide educators and students with a simple to understand overview of Copyright, Creative Commons and other licences that exist.
Nothing Beats the Real Thing -This free Australian online resource features ready to use units that investigate copyright,film and TV piracy issues. A variety of learning areas are covered.
All Right To Copy - An interactive online resource from the Smartcopying website.It is designed to teach students about copyright, and how it impacts them as both users and creators

The Copyright Friendly Resource Link - This is the link on our ISC VLA that accesses copy friendly resources.
At the end of last term, for our PLP, Will White,Tyler Smith,Joy Reid and myself introduced and began implementing a Book Trailer Unit into the Year 9 English curriculum.We are very excited about this unit of work.It is still in progress and I will report on it in this blog  after its completion.However, one of our goals for this unit  was to increase our students' awareness of copyright issues and upskill them so that they could become more digitally responsible.Consequently, one lesson was devoted to copyright issues and the prezi below was used as a teaching tool.In this unit students were introduced to Creative Commons resources and are required to attach a Creative Commons licence to their own videos.An example of a licence is  below the prezi.


Creative Commons License
Copyright and Creative Commons by Marianne Lee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Other recommended resources are the three  videos below:







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