School of Open

School of Open launching this week!!



Courses that will launch March 12, 2013

• A Look at Open Video - Overview of open video for students interested in developing software, video journalists, editors and all users of video who want to take their knowledge further.
• Open data for GLAMs - This challenge is for GLAM-professionals who are interested in opening up their data as free culture data.
• Contributing to Wikimedia Commons - This challenge gets you acquainted with uploading your works to the commons - a repository of openly licensed images from all over the world.
• dScribe: Peer-produced Open Educational Resources - Learn the ins and outs of building OER together with your peers.
• Open Science: An Introduction - A course for both seasoned and new researchers who want to learn what makes science "open", how they can find/use/build on open scientific works, and share their contributions back to the commons.
• Copyright 4 Educators (Aus) - A course for educators in Australia who want to learn about copyright, open content material and licensing.
• Copyright 4 Educators (US) - A course for educators in the US who want to learn about copyright law.
• Creative Commons for K-12 Educators - A course for elementary educators who want to find and adapt free resources for their classes, and incorporate activities that teach their students digital world skills.
• Open Detective - This course will explore the scale of open to non-open content and how to tell the difference.
• Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond - A course on how to edit Wikipedia articles, focusing on articles covering the open educational resources (OER) movement.
• Get a CC license. Put it on your website - A short challenge on applying the CC license of your choice to your website so that it aligns with marking and metadata best pracdtices.
• Open habits: making with the DS106 Daily Create - An hourlong challenge about building openness into your daily routine so that you're thinking about new ways to share and participate in the culture of openness.
• Intro to Openness in Education - This is an introductory course exploring the history and impacts of openness in education.

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Add CC Images Directly in Google Docs

Amit Agarwal recently highlighted another great reason to use Google Docs in his post on adding stock photos.

Google Docs is integrated with Google Image Search to help you quickly find and insert web photographs in your documents. The results are filtered to only show images that have been licensed under Creative Commons and labeled for commercial reuse so you are legally allowed to insert these images in your documents.

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Search for all types of CC material

Looking for CC licensed work? A great starting point is the Creative Commons Search Site. This site will help you find  photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share or build upon using Creative Commons.

You can also browse specific repositories of Creative Commons licensed content by clicking on the Content Directories tab. Currently, the directories includes audio, video, image, text education and geodata.

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Technorati Tags: audio, cc, creative commons, education, geodata, image, video

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Finding Photos with CC Licenses

flickrCC is a great place to find CC licensed images.

Not only does it find images but flickrCC also allows you to edit them by cropping and resizing.

As well as this you can add text anywhere on the image. Finally, you can add a frame and inculde the correct attribution at the bottom of the image.

Once edited use a screen capture program such as Printkey2000 to save the image to your computer.



PictureSandbox is a cool tool that lets you choose the CC license type before it searchs Flickr for your specified photos.  First came across this on Tama's eLearning blog. It is easy to use and should encourage students and teachers to pay more attention to copyright regulations!

  

Came across another similar tool on Stephen's Web called Behold. This tool searches Flickr specifically for high quality images. Make sure you tick the 'free to use' box!

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Technorati Tags: behold, copyleft, copyright, creative commons, flickr, flickrCC, picturesandbox

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