5C. Portfolio Assignment
The last page's focus was content curation, this one is content creation. This page discusses the following topics:
- Creative Commons
- Learners as content creators
- Portfolio assignment
Creative Commons
Copyright with Sharing
A general presentation of the Creative Commons Attribution Licenses with an emphasis on why authors might pick a certain license and why adopters of materials might desire a certain license.
The creators of ideas, art, literature, music, etc. usually have an immediate "copyright" to their creative genius. The copyright laws are designed to protect the creator (or author) of the materials from having others make money from their creations as well as to protect their works from copycats (call a derivative work). The laws are centered in the protection of the creative work by allowing its originator to control their creation.
Some authors (or creators) are willing to share their creative works with certain limitations. This can be
accomplished through the use of one of the Creative Commons Attribution Licenses http://creativecommons.org/about/l which have an international recognition.
Understanding license options will enable you to decide how you wish to share your materials and give you the ability to use the materials of others by following their license restrictions, thus avoiding any copyright infringement.
Please view this video from Creative Commons that discusses sharing: http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture
Creative Commons License Conditions
Authors retain the copyrights to their creations. Those rights include the profits from commercial use and distribution of their creations and the right to deny other to make modifications to their creations. However, some creators are willing to share some of their rights with others. This is done when they license others to use their creative material within a set of conditions.
A general presentation of the Creative Commons Attribution Licenses with an emphasis on why authors might pick a certain license and why adopters of materials might desire a certain license.
The creators of ideas, art, literature, music, etc. usually have an immediate "copyright" to their creative genius. The copyright laws are designed to protect the creator (or author) of the materials from having others make money from their creations as well as to protect their works from copycats (call a derivative work). The laws are centered in the protection of the creative work by allowing its originator to control their creation.
Some authors (or creators) are willing to share their creative works with certain limitations. This can be
accomplished through the use of one of the Creative Commons Attribution Licenses http://creativecommons.org/about/l which have an international recognition.
Understanding license options will enable you to decide how you wish to share your materials and give you the ability to use the materials of others by following their license restrictions, thus avoiding any copyright infringement.
Please view this video from Creative Commons that discusses sharing: http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture
Creative Commons License Conditions
Authors retain the copyrights to their creations. Those rights include the profits from commercial use and distribution of their creations and the right to deny other to make modifications to their creations. However, some creators are willing to share some of their rights with others. This is done when they license others to use their creative material within a set of conditions.
Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects. |
This work is adapted from The Connexions Project and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License Kenneth Leroy Busbee http://cnx.org/content/m34106/1.2/ and from http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Learners as Content Creators
As students become content creators to demonstrate mastery, they have an abundance of options from which to choose to develop their project. Below are several categories of creation options
Creation options
- Web cam / camcorder - These cameras are built-in on many laptops, available for purchase to plug in to the USB port to record using iMovie, Movie Maker, Debut, or other video recording software, or stand-alone camcorders such as the Flip Camera.
- Screencasting - These software programs, such as the Quicktime Player on the Mac, allows you to record the actions on the screen while recording voice. Other options are found on Ramsey Musallam's site at http://www.cyclesoflearning.com/. Look under "Resources" and "Useful Tools".
- iPad / iPhone Mobile device - These devices allow users to record video and audio, create movies right on the device, and have an amazing amount of apps available for content creation. iMovie for the iPad and iPhone is a great option.
- Media assemblies - These programs allow the user to create presentations and videos using still pictures. Examples are PhotoStory (for PC) and http://animoto.com/
- An Open Educational resource (OER) curated from this module.
- Debut (http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html) - This program ($60), allows you to record from webcams, external devices, computer screens, and streaming video.
- ccmixter (http://ccmixter.org/) ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Portfolio Assignment
Using the lesson plan template:
- Develop a lesson plan that asks students to curate resources and create a video on an educational subject. Include the description of the process by which you had students curate and create in your lesson plan.
- As part of the description and support for your students' learning, create a sample video that either shows the students how to curate the resources or how to create the final video. The video may be self-created by camera or through the media resources discovered and curated during the assignment in 5B. Include a link to this video within your lesson plan.
- Complete the lesson plan with your students and share a sample of student work - the student work can either be a link to their curated resources or their created video.