Thing # 23.....Creative Commons

Ok, Let's see....Creative commons=equals="some rights reserved". I think I got it! Creators allow their work to be shared and reused within reason, instead of having a copyright of "all rights reserved". Co-authorship is allowed and even encouraged.

One way that I can see using Creative Commons at school can be with art, literature, and music. In art, for example, students could begin an art work with a program such as Photoshop using an image in the Creative Commons category. The student can then alter it, substract from it, add to it, remix, and so on to make it interesting and creative. Students can use photographs and Photoshop to spice up their presentations for their research in the library. Flickr's tools can be used in the library for creating READ posters and other fun projects to promote the library and reading as well. One idea might be to select a photo of a famous person from Flickr's Creative Commons area and use a program such as Photoshop to insert the photo of a student or teacher directly into the famous person's photo.