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Multimedia Resources for Research and Content Creation October 28th 3 – 4:30pm Addlestone Library, Room 120

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A session and Library How-To Research Guide about interdisciplinary resources available to support the creation of scholarly digital projects and presentations.

Are your students creating presentations in your class?  Are you tired of the standard linear PowerPoint presentation (a presentation WMD)?  This session will showcase the many different production and presentation tools available to you and your students as well as the copyright and fair use considerations that go into creation of digital and online content (ever tried to put something up on YouTube and suffered the “copyright infringement smack down?”).   Learn about the creative commons, the Center for Social Media, and online production tools for any kind of multimedia presentation.  From finding media for digital storytelling to creating exceptionally memorable presentations with new software tools, this LITE session will spice up your teaching, your presentations, and pretty much your life* in general.

Feel free to stop in or email vanarnhemj@cofc.edu to reserve your seat for Thursday at 3pm in the Addlestone.

*please note that knowledge of digital presentation whiz-bang is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for life spicing

Community Collections

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The Great War Archive (part of the the University of Oxford digitization project The First World War Poetry Digital Archive) includes historical materials related to First World War experiences that have been digitally captured and cataloged by members of the public.  Digital copies of publicly owned artifacts were submitted via the Web between March and June 2008.   The collection includes family photos, diaries, letters, artifacts, and oral histories.  The collection is still growing on The Great War Archive Flickr Group.

If you are interested in how to go about starting a community collection, Stuart D. Lee and Kate Lindsay’s article If You Build It, They Will Scan: Oxford University’s Exploration of Community Collections is a great place to start!

Another great digital collection based on the community collection principle is Flickr’s The Commons. This great picture of Stubby, the American army dog with the rank of sergeant contributed by Nationaal Archief is one of many great photos that can be found and used without copyright restriction.

Stubby the American Army Dog

New online copyright education tools from the Office for Information Technology Policy

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The OITP announced the release of two new online copyright education tools: the Fair Use Evaluator and the Exceptions for Instructors eTool.  These great new resources–developed by Copyright Committee member Michael Brewer–add to OITP’s repertoire of copyright tools, including the Public Domain Slider and the Section 108 Spinner.
fair use evaluator

15 Minutes a Day: Creative Commons at a Glance

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Creative Commons At a Glance
By Judy Salpeter

Creative Commons licensing allows students and educators to determine what rights they are willing to share when they post original images, graphics, audio, text or multimedia works online. It also makes it easier to locate work by others that can legally be incorporated into remixes or other derivative products. Here are some basics for schools that are just getting going with Creative Commons.

Choosing a License

The first step in applying CC licensing to your work is to select the license that suits your preferences. The choices, described in more detail at http://creativecommons.org/, include:

  • Attribution [abbreviation: by] You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your copyrighted work—and derivative works based upon it—but only if they give credit the way you request.
  • Noncommercial [abbreviation: nc] You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform your work—and derivative works based upon it—but for noncommercial purposes only.
  • No Derivative Works [abbreviation: nd] You let others copy, distribute, display, and perform only verbatim copies of your work, not derivative works based upon it.
  • Share Alike. [abbreviation: sa] You allow others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the license that governs your work.

These licenses can be combined in various ways. For example, an Attribution Non-Commercial license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially but the works they create must acknowledge you and be non-commercial.

In addition, there is a Public Domain Dedication that lets you free works from copyright completely, offering them to the public domain.

Applying the License

Once you have selected your license, the Creative Commons web site shows you how to include the html code with your work. This code will automatically generate the “Some Rights Reserved” button and a statement that your work is licensed under a Creative Commons license, or a “No Rights Reserved” button if you choose to dedicate your work to the public domain. The button will link back to the Commons Deed where the license terms are explained. Your license choice is expressed in three ways:

Commons Deed: A plain-language summary of the license for users of your work, complete with the relevant icons.

Legal Code: The fine print that you need to be sure the license will stand up in court.

Digital Code: A machine-readable translation of the license that helps search engines and other applications identify your work by its terms of use.

Finding CC-Licensed Materials

An increasing number of Web 2.0 tools and search engines (including Google, Yahoo! and Flickr) are making it possible to locate materials online that have Creative Commons licenses. A good jumping-off point for locating such materials is CCSearch.

Where to Learn More About Creative Commons

Compiled and edited by Judy Salpeter with excerpts from the Creative Commons web site, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.