5C. Portfolio Assignment
As Professional Learning Leaders promote their brand and continue to be at the foreground of the Ed Tech community, protecting brand while letting the audience know are two critical components to establishing trust and loyalty. Creative Commons is the answer to these two solutions. Founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred (pioneers in rethinking what copyright looks like in the 21st century) as a solution to the Expansion of "reasonable", flexible copyright.
More often than not, the term of Creative Commons is thrown around as a commonly used phrase with little to no understanding that there are multiple levels of licensing available based on the needs or desires of the author.
More often than not, the term of Creative Commons is thrown around as a commonly used phrase with little to no understanding that there are multiple levels of licensing available based on the needs or desires of the author.
All Creative Commons licenses have many important features in common. Every license helps creators — we call them licensors if they use our tools — retain copyright while allowing others to copy, distribute, and make some uses of their work — at least non-commercially. Every Creative Commons license also ensures licensors get the credit for their work they deserve. Every Creative Commons license works around the world and lasts as long as applicable copyright lasts (because they are built on copyright). These common features serve as the baseline, on top of which licensors can choose to grant additional permissions when deciding how they want their work to be used. PLL’s need to have a clear understanding the publicly stating that their work is clear and open.
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As you watch through this Lawrence Lessig video, what questions come to mind as to what is applicable, acceptable and still address frameworks like the Partnership for 21st Century Skills?
What can be used in formal and information situations? What defines the limit of creativity and stealing? What works published should have been labeled as one form of Creative Commons? |
Another way of publishing work online is through Open Definition, which helps define the meaning of "open" in terms of open data and open content. How do these two pools of open material commingle with each other? Open Content is a paradigm in which content that is published for educational purposes that allows for permissible re-use with guidelines for redistribution.
A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it–subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike. By exploring and learning more about what Open Content, as provided through Open Definition, Professional Learning Leaders need to have a clear focus that works published, cited, and addressed in all areas need to be clearly stated as to what licensing is applied. Most often, this licensing is for protection as well as telling the audience that more thought went into publishing the work than just spending a few hours working on the slidedeck.
A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it–subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike. By exploring and learning more about what Open Content, as provided through Open Definition, Professional Learning Leaders need to have a clear focus that works published, cited, and addressed in all areas need to be clearly stated as to what licensing is applied. Most often, this licensing is for protection as well as telling the audience that more thought went into publishing the work than just spending a few hours working on the slidedeck.
Portfolio
Step #1 - Create a detailed summary (this could take the form of an infographic, presentation, Glogster, Thinglink, etc) that could be used to inform educators about OER and Copyright law. Please include content you feel is applicable for those you may be training to use in their own profession. Keep your points concise yet informative. Also keep in mind that educators are more likely to use this if it is visually appealing.
Step #2 - Now that your summary is complete, read the licensing information found on the Creative Commons website to analyze the best scenario for you to publish this work. The goal is to use the Creative Commons toolkit to obtain a badge for you this summary element. Place the appropriate copyright license on the work and then publish it in your portfolio. In your post, please briefly explain why you chose the license you did.
The final work should be a new summary on OER and Copyright law that is published with a Creative Commons license.
Step #2 - Now that your summary is complete, read the licensing information found on the Creative Commons website to analyze the best scenario for you to publish this work. The goal is to use the Creative Commons toolkit to obtain a badge for you this summary element. Place the appropriate copyright license on the work and then publish it in your portfolio. In your post, please briefly explain why you chose the license you did.
The final work should be a new summary on OER and Copyright law that is published with a Creative Commons license.