[senit] Copyright creativity and curriculum

One of the nice things about half term for me (I don't get school

Hi Sally,

great to hear you're getting into all of this. I've just watched the  
video you linked to and was waiting for the moment where he was going  
to mention Creative Commons. It finally came very near the end (about  
17 minutes 20 seconds I think), but in deference to the hosts (TED,  
whoever that organisation is) he flashed the logo up on screen but  
didn't actually say it.
For anyone who hasn't explored this yet, it's a very sound legal  
system for sharing your work, or for being given access to others'  
work with clear stages of what you can do. Perhaps the key aspect for  
education, is the option whereby permission can be granted to freely  
use the material and re-mix it in any way the user chooses, as long as  
not benefitting commercially. There is an option to refuse commercial  
use, and another to simply say that if it does get used commercially  
then the originator must be paid an agreed amount.
http://creativecommons.org/

Also, for another great demonstration of at least one person's view of  
what Web 2.0 is about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Sean O'Sullivan
sean.frankwise at easynet.co.uk
Headteacher (acting)
Frank Wise School, Banbury
http://www.frankwise.oxon.sch.uk

http://www.parkroadict.co.uk

On 20 Feb 2008, at 09:36, Sally Paveley wrote:

> One of the nice things about half term for me (I don't get school  
> holidays but neither do I have to go into schools) is the  
> opportunity to step outside the things I have to do and do a bit of  
> gazing at things that have caught my attention but failed to make it  
> onto my to do list.
>
> I would like to share a couple of these with you; they are connected  
> I think.  The first is a link that I found in last week's Naace  
> Newsletter. It caught my attention because PowerPoint was mentioned  
> - and I do lots of things with PowerPoint and there is a connection  
> but not yet.  I clicked on the link and was treated to a great  
> presentation by Larry Lessig about communication and creativity www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs 
>  . Do take a look if you can.  It got me thinking about many things,  
> one of which was something I had heard about but never really looked  
> at - Web 2.
>
> I Googled Web 2 and understood more about what it is.  In his  
> presentation Larry was talking about how young people are generating  
> online content by, amongst other things, capturing and manipulating  
> content that other people have put there and how current copyright  
> legislation is now outdated and needs to change.  He was not  
> referring people who copy entire movies, songs etc then redistribute  
> them.  He was talking about taking elements from different online  
> media and combining, manipulating or changing them in creative ways  
> so they become something else entirely.  Web 2 is about people  
> becoming participants in online activity rather than observers of it  
> and that is what is happening.
>
> That got me thinking about what I, and many others, do when we  
> create resources for our pupils to use .  I use Google to find  
> images, I look for sound clips and I put them together (often in  
> PowerPoint) with a mild concern about copyright.  I had to consider  
> this more seriously when I launched The Plasma Screen & Whiteboard  
> Room and have still probably not got it absolutely right.  Who is  
> going to do something about getting the law changed?
>
> The other question I now have is about what we are teaching our  
> students in terms of ICT; the ICT world has moved on considerably in  
> the last few years and our teaching should reflect this.  As  
> somebody who teaches ICT I have some serious thinking to do but the  
> possibilities are exciting! As a Web 2 user I don't have to do the  
> thinking in isolation, which is why I am writing this.
>
> Looking forward to your responses.
>
> Sally
>
>
> Sally Paveley
> ICT/SEN Consultant
> The Advisory Unit: Computers in Education
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