Search results for: “creative commons”
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Creative Commons for MS Office
When most people think of using the computer, a large number of folks probably think first of Microsoft Office: most likely the most profitable and almost ubiquitous productivity software suite in the world to date. The innovative folks at Creative Commons have paired up with Microsoft to release a new Creative Commons Add-in for Microsoft…
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Creative Commons in K-12 Education
Every teacher and student needs to know about Creative Commons! My latest article for the TechEdge focuses on Creative Commons and how educators as well as students can use it to publish work and access images, videos, and other media content for multimedia projects and other “derivative works.” Here is an excerpt from the introduction:…
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Google and Creative Commons
Google Advanced Search now permits search filtering by Creative Commons licenses. I was surprised how few of the attendees at TechForum that I talked with this week knew about Creative Commons. Teachers and students need to not only know about Creative Commons and search tools which support it, but also be using it in research…
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Creative Commons and my legal use license of authored online works
A free acceptable use license that I am using — Thanks Lawrence Lessig! I was surfing wired.com tonight and made a great discovery– let’s see if I can trace my virtual footprints here… I was reading the article “ITunes Music Swap Just Won’t Die” and found a link to boingboing.net (which I had never heard…
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The Dream of Creative Writing
I have been doing quite a bit of soul-searching in the past few weeks and months, and I have played with several ideas for my future that are worth noting. One of these is my desire to write fiction, to unleash my creative imagination in a channel detached almost entirely from education and educational technology.…
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Let’s Believe in Kids and Teachers as Creative Digital Makers, Not Just Passive Consumers
Finishing off day 4 of a Spring Break Scratch Camp today, these words from Jim Klein (on Miguel Guhlin’s blog) resonate with me deeply. At Scratch Camp, STEM teacher Chris Simon and I are providing opportunities for kids to become MAKERS, coders, creative collaborators, and citizens with AGENCY who are not merely passive content consumers.…
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Creative Math Word Problems about Rock Climbing & Mountaineering #favlesson
Here’s a blog and Twitter meme idea: What is one of your favorite lessons from elementary, middle or high school? Post your lesson memory to your blog and share it on Twitter with the hashtag #favlesson. For ‘extra credit’ include a related Creative Commons image in your post. Here’s mine. One of my favorite lesson…
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Who is hosting your state’s Commons-based peer production server for curriculum?
Kent Brooks, the director of technology at Western Oklahoma State College (WOSC) out in Altus, wrote a great post on his Ning last week following an Adobe connect brainstorming session called, “Open Content, Peer Production and Creativity, STEM and School Culture Transformation in Oklahoma.” This built on the ideas in my post, “Let’s build openly…
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Tweet On: Microblogging can help you be more creative
If you work with folks who question the time you spend “on the clock” perusing and contributing to social media websites / micro-blogging communities like Twitter, you might direct them to Brendan Koerner’s February 2010 article for Wired, “How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive.” Brendan writes: Studies that accuse social networks of reducing…
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Remix: Blending Creative Works to Show Mastery of Classroom Content #mace2010
These are my notes from Bob Lee’s session “Remix: Blending Creative Works to Show Mastery of Classroom Content” at the 2010 MACE (Mid-America Association for Computers in Education) Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. MY THOUGHTS AND FEEDBACK ARE IN ALL CAPS. All resoruces are on tinyurl.com/leeremix – bob [dot] lee [usd382 [dot] com Bob Lee is…