PiLibrarian


 * Creative Commons**

1) Contributions to http://pi21.wikispaces.com are licensed under a [|Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License]. This is at the bottom of each page of the Wiki.

2) I find CC to be exciting, put also kind of frustrating and puzzling. In some ways it was easier when everything fell under the same blanket copyright rules. So far I don't have any standard "go to" sites for finding CC-licensed media, and it's been frustrating going to, say, Flickr, and finding the CC-only search box. In my experience so far, most of what I find and would like to use is all-rights reserved still.

I think it could be a really useful tool, but it's going to require lots and lots of teaching and patient repetition for users to understand and use CC-licensed materials. Also, for the general folks to actively license their creations -- because regular copyright just happens automatically -- will require a great deal of education, publicity, etc.

Because I know that re-using, copying, pasting, and plagiarism are everywhere, I consider everything that I put on the web to be potentially stolen, ie: I don't put anything on the web that I care greatly about if it were mis-used. I've thought about setting up a CC-license to use, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.


 * 3/17/09** - Hmm, like DUH!! Somehow I completely missed the Creative Commons search engine that came neatly included in my Firefox 3. I will now force myself to use it when I am looking for media to use/re-use, and see what I find.

**VoiceThread** This is kind of cool for a group project. I'm looking for a quick and easy video creator, but I'm not sure this is the one. Below is a VoiceThread I made from a video I did last winter. I can see how this could be fun personally, with something like a family slideshow with commentary to send at reunion time. media type="custom" key="3484518"

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Last year my daughter's 3rd grade class made VoiceThread shows when they were studying "democracy." Her "democrat" (fighter for democratic freedoms) was Eleanor Roosevelt.

**Podcasting** I love the idea of podcasting, and subscribe to a few. Of course, then you have to make time or remember to arrange to listen to them! (I forget to listen to books on CD too, since I'm usually Ok with just listening to myself think during listening times). I like shows like Jean Feraca's //Here on Earth// or the world music show from BBC's //The World//. I have an iRiver mp3 player which I really like but isn't optimized for an iPodded world.

A couple of years ago I got fired up to start a book reviewing podcast, with different students doing one-minute blurbs of their favorite books. It didn't go anywhere because I could only ever get one student to do it (he did a great job though!). My perennial frustration with using new technology (and other cool resources) is that I don't have a captive audience in the same way that classroom teachers do. Boo hoo.

Here's the student-created podcast; didn't he do a great job? The series was called "Python Picks: where you can __hear__ what Paideia's reading!".

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