Creative Commons presentation
July 12th, 2005 | by Tim Wilson |We had a brief presentation by Neeru Paharia from the Creative Commons organization tonight. She had a video explaining the history of Creative Commons and went on to talk about some specific Web resources to help users find Creative Commons-licensed content. Her suggestions:
- Yahoo! Creative Commons Search for all manner of digital content
- Flickr for images
- Soundclick for music
- Prelinger Archives for video footage (and other goodies)
She also highlighted two Creative Commons tools. The first, ccPublisher, helps users tag content with the proper Creative Commons license and then uploads the content to the Internet Archive. The second, ccMixter, is a tool to build a music sharing site that can be linked to other ccMixter sites on the Internet. She talked about the potential for building a ccMixter for teacher lesson plans.
I haven’t mentioned this yet in my musing about developing our curriculum sharing tool, but I plan to lobby our district administration to license all of the curriculum materials with a Creative Commons license by default. Shouldn’t sharing be the default anyway?
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One Response to “Creative Commons presentation”
By Rob on Sep 18, 2006 | Reply
Just stumbled across this old post…
I met Neeru last fall as I was organizing a nonprofit site to let teachers share creative commons licensed lesson plans (a successor to my old wiki site, http://teacherslounge.editme.com). She gave me this same idea, and we’ve actually done it. A beta should be up within a week or two at TeachForward.org. If you visit the site now you can sign up for a discussion or announcement list. Email me at TeachForward at gmail dot com if you’d like to discuss.