Creative Commons and Copyright

As we use and create more online content, it is important to be aware of your responsibilities as a digital citizen.

Here are some useful resources:

Smartcopying – A guide to copyright issues affecting schools and TAFE in Australia.

Creative Commons – All about copyright licences and all you need to know about reusing online content.

To find online content that you are able to reuse Creative Commons has a dedicated search site: search.creativecommons.org

Other sites that offer reusable CC material are listed here: Creative Commons materials fact sheet

Finding Creative Commons images via Google:

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Providing attribution for CC images.

This is a useful CC guide by The University of Melb to using and attributing CC images from Google.

Flickr is an excellent source of CC images.

You can also use ImageCodr to provide the correct attribution.  See this example below:

 

Teachers Handbook on Creative Commons and Copyright – all you need to know about creative commons licensing!

Copyright and creative commons handbook

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Edmodo

Secure Social Learning Network for Teachers and Students


Wikispaces

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Edublogs

Education blogs for teachers, students and institutions.


VoiceThread
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Wallwisher

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