What every educator needs to know about creative commons

I am adding this slideshare to the blog so that I can use it regularly for Teacher PD. It never fails to amaze me how everyone seems to understand that they cannot use everything and anything in their presentations but they do in the name of "education". Honestly we truly must walk the walk in terms of copyright and make use of creative commons content in our work and with students. Thanks to Joyce Valenza's tweet

Interesting Video about Fair Use

This video is just out from the states about fair use that pertains to American Copyright law. I would like to see how different this is in Canada. To download the full report visit the website for Centre for Social Media

Copyright video

Interesting little movie about copyright using copyrighted images????

Copyright and Media

Will Richardson has an interesting comment about copyright and how Web 2.0 has changed how we must approach new media. Are our children criminals or are they only doing what they think is normal? Interesting ideas with references to Lawrence Lessig and Creative commons. Check it out. http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/our-kids-as-criminals/

Copyright Law and the Ethics of Sampling

Here is an interesting video clip about promoting an upcoming video release about Fair Use and Copyright law.