Thursday, July 7, 2011

SMART-9

The majority of my experience of accessing and viewing photographs and videos online comes from Facebook and YouTube. I generally visit these sites at least once a day and scan through both photos and videos.  I have also used Google images to download photos for presentations and other school related functions.
 
Again my experience in uploading and sharing photographs comes from Facebook. I take quite a bit of pictures so I post them very regularly. I have also used PhotoBucket to host my images at times. I also have a YouTube account where I have posted several videos that I have made for academic classes during my undergraduate career.

Explain how the concept of the creative commons impacts teacher and student use of phtographs and video clips created by someone else.
 
The Creative Commons is an international initiative aimed at providing a mechanism for clear and unambiguous licensing of content that does not automatically assume or require commercialization of the content. Creative Commons licenses allow creators to choose which rights they wish to protect and which they do not and, consequently, simplifies the process of making new content available without the default restrictions imposed by copyright law. Licenses can be customized in a variety of ways; for example, creators can choose whether or not they want to be acknowledged or if they will allow adaptation of the work, and they can choose to control commercial uses of the work. More than 38 countries have customized variations of the Creative Commons licenses that are designed to reflect contract and copyright law differences.

Creative Commons will give students and teachers a more clear way to understand if certain videos and photographers are available for use since the creator can precisely identify what their works may be used for.

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