Module 6 Blog Post: Creative Commons & Flicker
My understanding of Creative Commons is a lot clearer now with the information presented in this module. Creative Commons is an accompanying piece to Copyright that gives content owners the ability to define levels of sharing and reuse for their copyrighted works. According (Teachers Pay Teachers, n.d.), with Creative Commons, “You are able to tailor what you will allow, including whether you allow them to create new works based on your work (a derivative work), whether you allow commercial uses of the work, and whether you require your name to be attached to the document” (p.1). The TpT Copyright FAQ page does a great job explaining the complexities of Copyright and Creative Commons. My first real encounter with understanding Creative Commons came from interacting with TpT. It is an important resource worth mentioning, as they provide a lot of really insightful information on the matter.
Coincidentally, I have shared quite a bit of content on the web. Over the last few years I have produced original flash based interactive content for my students. Initially, it started as an interactive sight word project and gradually evolved into a collection of very basic slideshow interactive games for younger students to help them with math facts, colors, etc. Early on, I decided to try my luck selling theses resources on TpT. I ultimately decided that I would get greater reward by giving away my content for free. The TpT website helped me find and copy the right Creative Commons license for my content. I ultimately opted out of the remix option. I wasn’t comfortable with that level of license. That, in my opinion, could be a potential negative to Creative Commons. With our viral culture, it is hard to foresee just how exactly original content could get remixed both positively and negatively. The license I chose for my content was a pretty standard Creative Commons license. My interactive sight words game is just a hair under fifty-three hundred downloads. Creative Commons has allowed me a comfortable level of protection to share my original content and potentially help thousands of children and educators. Without the protection of Creative Commons, I likely would not have shared my content outside of my school website. Creative Commons is a necessary accompaniment to standard Copyright and it lends itself nicely to our Web 2.0 viral remix culture.
Flickr, in a way, is a visual extension of the ideals of Creative Commons. What better way to freely distribute original and remix-able images is there than Flickr? It is definitely at the forefront of image hosting and sharing. According to Richardson (2010), “Flickr.com has become the Web-based digital photography portal of choice for many educators” (p.102). I would argue that Flickr is the photography portal of choice for most people, not just educators. Now that I have a clearer understanding of how to navigate the Flickr advanced search, I could see greater potential here. Certainly, I will use this in the future for any PowerPoint presentations in need of stock imagery. I hadn’t previously entertained the idea of combing through Flickr for free to use imagery. I primarily focused on public domain imagery for my slideshow needs. The availability of Creative Commons imagery and the embeddability aspects of the images have made Flickr a more relevant product to me. I wonder what everyone in class uses to host images? Classmates, should I close my Photobucket account and move over to Flickr?
Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web
tools for classrooms. (3rd ed.). Thousand Oak, California: Corwin.
Copyright FAQ for Teachers-Authors. (n.d.). Retrieved September 27, 2014, from http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Copyright-FAQ
My content (feel free to share with elementary educators):
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Adam-Meador
http://meadorgames.weebly.com/
My Flickr search was centered on glitch imagery, which is a form of digital art that produces beauty through image file corruption.
Photo: http://goo.gl/S96H5j
Photograph by username: Torley
Title: Strange is the tribe that turns dying species into art
Coincidentally, I have shared quite a bit of content on the web. Over the last few years I have produced original flash based interactive content for my students. Initially, it started as an interactive sight word project and gradually evolved into a collection of very basic slideshow interactive games for younger students to help them with math facts, colors, etc. Early on, I decided to try my luck selling theses resources on TpT. I ultimately decided that I would get greater reward by giving away my content for free. The TpT website helped me find and copy the right Creative Commons license for my content. I ultimately opted out of the remix option. I wasn’t comfortable with that level of license. That, in my opinion, could be a potential negative to Creative Commons. With our viral culture, it is hard to foresee just how exactly original content could get remixed both positively and negatively. The license I chose for my content was a pretty standard Creative Commons license. My interactive sight words game is just a hair under fifty-three hundred downloads. Creative Commons has allowed me a comfortable level of protection to share my original content and potentially help thousands of children and educators. Without the protection of Creative Commons, I likely would not have shared my content outside of my school website. Creative Commons is a necessary accompaniment to standard Copyright and it lends itself nicely to our Web 2.0 viral remix culture.
Flickr, in a way, is a visual extension of the ideals of Creative Commons. What better way to freely distribute original and remix-able images is there than Flickr? It is definitely at the forefront of image hosting and sharing. According to Richardson (2010), “Flickr.com has become the Web-based digital photography portal of choice for many educators” (p.102). I would argue that Flickr is the photography portal of choice for most people, not just educators. Now that I have a clearer understanding of how to navigate the Flickr advanced search, I could see greater potential here. Certainly, I will use this in the future for any PowerPoint presentations in need of stock imagery. I hadn’t previously entertained the idea of combing through Flickr for free to use imagery. I primarily focused on public domain imagery for my slideshow needs. The availability of Creative Commons imagery and the embeddability aspects of the images have made Flickr a more relevant product to me. I wonder what everyone in class uses to host images? Classmates, should I close my Photobucket account and move over to Flickr?
Richardson, W. (2010). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web
tools for classrooms. (3rd ed.). Thousand Oak, California: Corwin.
Copyright FAQ for Teachers-Authors. (n.d.). Retrieved September 27, 2014, from http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Copyright-FAQ
My content (feel free to share with elementary educators):
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Adam-Meador
http://meadorgames.weebly.com/
My Flickr search was centered on glitch imagery, which is a form of digital art that produces beauty through image file corruption.
Photo: http://goo.gl/S96H5j
Photograph by username: Torley
Title: Strange is the tribe that turns dying species into art