Workshops/FindingFreeDigitalResources

Introduction

Photograph by ryaninc

This is a wiki page for a workshop that will help faculty (and students) to find, use, reuse, cite, embed, mashup, include, extend, and maybe even share free resources that can be legally incorporated into course materials.

background

• UCalgary resources for using copyright material in class (and info on Fair Dealing)
• Creative Commons

Creative Commons

Creative Commons Logos by CreativeCommons.org

Where to find CC resources

Photograph from Academic Earth via MIT Open CourseWare

• Generic / Multiple formats
  • search.creativecommons.org - the first place to look for free stuff
  • archive.org - the internet archive project
  • Google license search
  • Yahoo! Creative Commons search
  • OurMedia.org
  • Slideshare - presentations
• Photos and Images
  • Flickr license search and Creative Commons on Flickr
  • Flickr Commons projects
  • CompFight - find CC images on Flickr
  • Flickr Storm - visual photo search
  • FlickrCC.bluemountains.net
• Video
  • Archive.org - Moving Images (that's "video" to you and me)
  • TED Talks
  • Academic Earth
  • Blip.TV Creative Commons videos
• Audio / Music
  • CCMixter

Other sources of media

These don't mention licenses specifically, but Fair Dealing should apply to educational use.

• Life Magazine photo archive

How to use CC resources

• linking vs. copying
• the allmighty <embed /> tag
• free stuff is often designed to share via copy/paste
• how to cite your usage
• WikiEducator

Even better - make your own!

Photograph by D'Arcy Norman

• declaring a license on existing works
• creating new works
  • 50 Ways to tell a Web 2.0 Story - many of these tools allow selection of a copyright license.
  • Animoto - create a video, complete with background audio, for a set of images.
  • Jing - record your computer screen
  • Prezi - create rich, animated presentations
  • 280Slides - great online presentation authoring/sharing

Open Education Resources

Photograph by D'Arcy Norman

Projects

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Open CourseWare Consortium
• OpenLearn
• OER Commons
• OpenAcademic
• Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE)
• Berkeley Webcasts
• Connexions
• Wikiversity
• Utah State University OpenCourseWare
• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health OCW
• SmartHistory - a free, Creative Commons textbook on art history

More awesomesauce

• UBC's Free Stuff wiki page/presentation