Creative Commons

This week in tutorial we explored a variety of websites that were useful for me as a teacher. One of these was Creative commons. I decided to find out more about this website by researching and writing my blog.

Creative commons is a worldwide organisation that is non profitable. It provides free licences and tools that ‘Copyright owners can use’ to allow others to share, reuse and remix different material and is all legal. (Commons, 2012) Creative commons supports copyright owners to allow other access to their material by sharing and allowing access.

                                             Link to: Creative Commons Website

This benefits of Creative commons as a resources for me as a teacher is that it will be useful for when I am presenting material to the class whether it be a video  or picture, I can be sure that I am not breaching an copyright issues which may also be school policy. Within Creative commons you can search for any particular subject in websites such as Google and Google Images, Flickr, YouTube, Jamendo and Open Clip Art Library. For a lot of students the way they learn best is through visually learning and seeing what they are learning. Through the use of video or images this is made possible. Creative Commons allows you to find images, Video or music without the hassle of worrying about Copyright Issues.

I feel that this would be a fantastic resource for me to use as a teacher as Textiles and Food are visual subjects it is important to not only listen and read but to see.

References:

Commons, C. (2012). About. Retrieved March 1st, 2012, from Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org.au/about