Just an experiment to try out Viddler before I submit my final project on Sunday.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
BP8_2010013_Web2.0 Tools Week 3
While watching Dr. Wescher’s video A Portal to Media Literacy, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s I was struck by the way he described his use of someone else’s music in one of his presentations. He mentioned that he had acquired the music from a musician from the west coast of Africa through the creative commons web site, which is not that unusual but it was what he added that struck me. He said that he was now collaborating with a musician half a world away. The word collaboration and how it relates to this course stuck with me and so I decided to explore the creative commons and really try to understand how it works and how I can use it in my own collaborative efforts. The first thing I did was go to the Creative Commons website and read their info about who and what they are. Then I tried to figure out the licensing scheme and how to use image and music that was licensed under the CC system. Very confusing. I finally struck gold when in frustration googled “how do I attribute images in creative commons and got a link to a wikiHow site on this very subject. http://www.wikihow.com/Attribute-a-Creative-Commons-Licensed-Work This made it so much easier. Bopped over to Flickr, looked under the explore tab and wah lah! A treasure trove of images under Creative Commons was at my fingertips. A quick keynote presentation later and I was ready to give students the power to correctly use Web2.0 to add pizzazz to their presentations. The very existence of Creative Commons is ample evidence of the emerging power of collaborative culture.
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