Thing 10 - Getting Creative, Commonly!

Well, Creative Commons was a totally new experience for me.

1. I have NOT seen (or else have not paid attention to) the CC logo on websites I've visited.
2. I DO believe CC will impact student project creation -- with the vast array of resources and license to share/edit/append, collaboration becomes that much broader and significant!
3. I constantly use digital images and audio/video clips from the web to teach my students!
4. I don't intentionally share information on the web -- but would love to participate in this with other social studies educators (especially those who deal with online learning).
5. Who owns my teaching materials??? Well, it depends -- I'm fairly certain when it comes to textbooks and ancillary materials purchased for educational purposes but when it comes to all the stuff I snag off the web... I dunno!
6. One obvious negative is relinquishing your complete rights to a personal creation. I imagine, though, that anyone willing to post work here would consider this drawback first.

I found some great stuff in OER:

• this awesome American Government course
• a really cool learning module about the first sustained American-European contacts (1492-1600)
• a powerful web-supported lesson plan called Girls Speak Out -- teaches about the feminization of global poverty with amazing video clips