Thing #23

I can't imagine how much time it took to put that Disney video together!

Probably one of the most informative Livetext assignments we had was the one on Fair Use.  Understanding the freedom that Fair Use offers is liberating, but realizing the extra care a teacher has to take when posting their work publicly can still cause hesitation.  One of the things I appreciate about sites such as Flicker and Creative Commons is that it takes most of that fear out of lesson planning.  A teacher can be free to concentrate on content and creativity.  One of the most important thing I took away from our Livetext assignment was to ask yourself if your work would effect  profitability for the original author or artist.  Creative Commons and their Open Education Resource allow the teacher to set some of those thoughts aside and simply create!  Examples of how this blog shows attribution: just above the blog archive list is a note that the entire blog was put together with permission under Creative Commons licensing, also Thing 14 has a note that it was originally posted on Explore, Discover, Play: Learning 2.1 and was used for our 23things under Creative Commons.