Creative Commons Resources from other Students

Creative Commons: (Alicia) Youtube, Youtube.com. Collect videos to gather more information or you or you. An Poland a video a clss makas as a final assignment, TheMath forum, mathforum.org. A place for students and teachers to post math topics they need help with and anyone can post their comments and help. Students can do this with kids from others schools to help each other. Fotopedia, Fotopedia.com. Gather photos to creat collages to describe a math term etc. Pixabay, Pixabay.com. Anothsite to to collect photos for teachers to use two show mathterms etc. can use to make a word wall. Edhelper, Edhelper.com. Another math and any subject place to get more extra help and practice from others, School express, freeworksheets.com. Teachers can use worksheets to hand to their students for extra practice and homework, Wikispaces, wikispaces.com. Kids can create websites to describe a topic for a final project etc. Cool tools for schools, http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com. Teachers can post and get ideas to incorporate technology into lessons. Edutopia, Edutopia.com. More resources for tearchers to post and gather to help with lesson planning. Integrating technology into the classroom, http://www.wtvi.com/teks/05_06_articles/creativecommons.html. Resources for teachers to find way to use technology into their lessons.

Creative Commons (Amy) These were some sites I found that contain Creative Commons or Fair Use material, to be used in education. A lot of the sites are good clip art sites that I use for multiple purposes! I use the clip art or pictures for visuals in my teaching. I have a Mimio that makes my white board and interactive one, so I have the ability to include a lot more visuals than would otherwise be possible. http://www.classhelper.org/ - this is great page that has many different kinds of free resources, worksheets, puzzles, word finds, etc.

http://freeplaymusic.com/ - I heard of this site when learning about digital storytelling. It has many different styles and lengths of music clips to download for free. http://pics4learning.com/ - an awesome educational clipart site. http://www.mimioconnect.com/ - to be used with the Mimio interactive whiteboard software http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_ages_english.shtml - great European and British history lessons for elementary kids. http://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/index.html - lots of free maps to teach European history with. http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=History - more free educational clipart http://www.abookintime.com/maps.html#interactivemaps - more free maps. http://www.edupics.com/ - my favorite educational clipart site. It also has a lot of mandalas that I printed out for a couple of my special needs kids to help them pay attention in class. http://mes-english.com/ - this site is probably my favorite teacher site, perfect for teaching ESL or early reading, it has many games, worksheets and visuals for basic vocabulary and phonics.

B) 10 Creative Commons Resources for Classroom Use (Ashley)

1. Google Images https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi I use this search engine all of the time when looking for photos. However, I need to be more careful when it comes to looking for creative commons pictures here. 2. Image Base http://imagebase.davidniblack.com/main.php This is a great website for a wide variety of PowerPoint templates. I would use this website when customizing PowerPoint presentations. 3. Morgue File http://www.morguefile.com/archive/ I would search for photos here when looking for something I could freely manipulate and change. 4. Wylio http://www.wylio.com/ This would be a great place to look for pictures for a classroom blog on my website. 5. EduPic Graphical Resource http://edupic.net/ I would use this site for many different kinds of pictures but I saw a lot of really great science pictures. These could easily be added to any science lesson. 6. Photos 8 http://photos8.org/ Great place to find photos from a wide selection of categories. I would direct my students here when they are working on visual art type presentations or projects. 7. The World Images Kiosk http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/ This is a great place to find photos when teaching about other cultures and world history.

8. Graphic Organizers http://bilingualteacherresource.yolasite.com/graphic-organizers.php This website has a lot of really great graphic organizers in both English and Spanish. Each organizer is labeled with what it pertains to either for subject or skill. 9. Infographics http://infographicsineducation.wikispaces.com/Graphic+Organizers Great place for links to graphic organizers. However, I dont believe all of these links are to creative commons websites.

10. Animal Photos http://animalphotos.info/a/ Wide selection of animal photos. Great place to direct students when looking for pictures of animals for research reports.

Creative Commons Resources (Cortney Dupree) Creative commons are for artists, musicians, poets, writers, and any other creative individuals to share their work with the rest of the world. Although it is their original work, they are sharing to enhance the lives of those who can benefit from it. Pubic Bookshelf This website offers a place for students to find history books for free. Students can search on any topics and have a library at their fingertips. Free History and Genealogy Books Online Not only can students trace back the history the pioneers of theUnited States, but also their own families. In a classroom as diverse as mine, students will learn to appreciate their background and their peers as well. http://www.genealogysearch.org/free/digitalpublications.html World Mapper This website looks at maps around the world, through distorted views, and according to any topic you can think of from wealth and poverty to the AIDS epidemic. http://www.worldmapper.org/ World Atlas This website is a bit different than the worldmapper because it has different categories and has the abilities to quiz students. Flags, currency exchange rate, and photos are things students may actually use in their travels abroad, not just in the classroom. Free Images This website offers photography and printed media from around the world. http://www.freeimages.co.uk/index.htm

Aol Music This site offers free music downloads and lyrics. Students could use lyrics to re-create a song or analyze the words of a song. http://music.aol.com/#/1 Fotosearch This website is a good resource for students to find images, illustrations, and clip art. Students could use this in powerpoints, prezis, or short videos. http://www.fotosearch.com/photos-images/war.html History Link 101 This website is full of history type pictures. Many of the photos are from wartime and show their date depending color, technology of equipment, and dress attire such as uniforms. http://www.historylink101.com Partners in Rhyme If I need students to make a video using animoto, they can access this website to find war sound effects such as gun sounds or explosions. http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/warsounds.shtml Artist Direct Sometime I need to find a video of an anti-war song or lyrics about war. If my students need to find these types of things to analyze the issue of a certain time period, they can use this website very easily. http://www.artistdirect.com

Creative Commons Resources (Efrain)

1. CC Search This site provides the foundations for Creative Commons. I would use it for its resource list and to teach my students about how to use Creative Commons in their projects. http://search.creativecommons.org/

2. Pics4learning
This is a great image site where images are nicely divided into categories. I would use this site in my Web Design class so students could publish their work using Creative Commons images. http://www.pics4learning.com/

3. Free Play Music

This site provides a great list of easy to search music. It has many different styles of music and it is perfect for my Film Editing class. Students can use this music when working on a project which they need to publish without the worry of copyright infringements. http://freeplaymusic.com/

4. Flickr
I use this site all the time in my online classes at WOU. This is a great site with a large Creative Commons image library. This image site would also be used in my Web Design class and will probably be used in my Publishing 101 site as well. http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

5. Creative Commons Mixer

Another great music site for my Film Editing class. http://ccmixter.org/

6. Jamendo
This site has 350,000 different songs to choose from. It is a great site for discovering new artist. This site is perfect for my Film Editing class. http://www.jamendo.com/en

7. Open Clipart
A great clipart site. I would use this site in my Spanish classes to teach new vocabulary. I use a lot of images in my language classes. http://openclipart.org/

8. Fotopedia
This is an amazing image search site, many of the images are under Creative Commons. This site provides a much more fun way to look for images on sites such as Flickr. The layout is very nice, I will use this site in Web Design. www.fotopedia.com

9. Google
Advanced image search on google allows you to choose from user right options. This is not as easy to use as some of the other image search sites but it is google and google is still king. Perfect site for Web Design and Publishing 101. http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search

10. CC Mixer Music Discovery

This site provides a space for musicians to share their music with the world. This is a perfect site for anyone looking for instrumental music for youtube videos, films, and other digital projects. Great site for my Film Editing class. http://dig.ccmixter.org/

10 Creative Commons Sites (Erin H)

Scholastic This is a website where teachers share resources specifically for preschool teachers. It has numerous lesson plans and resources. http://teachershare.scholastic.com/resources/12935 BHolden-Kennet

This is a website containing lesson plans for preschoolers. http://bholden-kennett.wikispaces.com/Preschool+Lesson+Plans Bright Hub Education This is a website about Rainbows geared toward preschoolers. This will help me integrate science into the activites. http://www.brighthubeducation.com/preschool-lesson-plans/38069-two-color-lessons-on-rainbowsand-collages/ Planet Preschool This is a website that has activities about weather and climate. This also will help me introduce science into my lesson plans. http://planetpreschool.wikispaces.com/wiki/changes Free Lecture Videos Preschool Science Activities This is a website my students can watch about different science experiments in the case that we are not able to perform the activity ourselves. http://planetpreschool.wikispaces.com/wiki/changes Preschool Fun This is a website with different science experiments for my students to do. http://preschool.wikispaces.com/Science+Experiments PreschoolLiteracy This is a website that will help me integrate literacy into my curriculum. http://preschoolliteracy.wikispaces.com/Literacy+Activities PreK Preschool Reading Resources This is a website that offers both resources and activities for the children in reading. http://readyreadingresources.wikispaces.com/Pre-K+Preschool+Reading+Resources Literacy

This is a website geared toward the preschool teacher, giving information on how to get your students writing and reading. http://readyreadingresources.wikispaces.com/Pre-K+Preschool+Reading+Resources Early Childhood Education This is a website that offers a resources with a library of over 40,000 online books to help create lesson plans and activities. http://rcclibrary.wikispaces.com/EarlyChildhoodEducation

Creative Commons Resources (Fatimah)

Let me say first that I am staying far away from reptiles on this one. For this list, I am going to research creative commons resources that will help me and my students learn about the planets. I first visited Curricki, a website that shares CC material. I typed in lesson plan planets and got 60 hits immediately. There are diagrams, photos, written essays and reports, and videos available for use in the classroom. I next visited Pics4Learning and searched planets. They have an extensive collection of photos of the planets as well as stars and the moon. This would be great to use as a slide show of some sort to show how different each of the planets look. Cool Tools For Schools is another amazing CC website for teachers. Sure enough, there are mutiple hits for planet tools to use with the students. On the Khan Academy site I found a cool video about the speed necessary for a space shuttle to stay in orbit. While not directly related to planets, there will inevitably be questions coming up about space shuttles and how close they get to planets. Freebase is a great website that is a search engine, allowing the user to search only for CC media and content. This is a great starting place for any educator or student looking for CC material. Fotopedia is another great source. It is a CC source with high quality photos that can be used for any type of lesson plan. On the OER site, I found a link for CC lesson plans for science. They have multiple plans available for space and the planets, allowing the teacher to pick the one most appropriate for her class. My Science Box is another CC website dealing specifically with science lesson plans, activities, and handout materials on a wide variety of topics including space. Internet Archive is a CC site with high quality photos and videos of planets from NASA and other highly respected sources.

Finally, BlipTV has many educational videos, including some featuring professors explaining space and the planets. This would be too advanced for elementary students, but would be a good guide for me to use as a teacher.

10 Creative Commons Resources for Classroom Use (Katie Smart) Curriki http://www.curriki.org/ Curriki is a website where teachers our welcome to share and use curriculum. The website has the option to search by grade level, content, and what type of activity you are wanting. Math Blaster http://www.mathblaster.com/teachers/math-worksheets/ I would use this website to create math worksheet depending on grade level. Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ Flickr is a website that allows users to share their images under creative common licensing so any image that my students wanted to use that fell under that license would be perfect for projects and presentations. Bookr http://www.pimpampum.net/bookr/ This website allows you to create a book and use those images found on flikr. The book allows you to also add writing to the pages making it a great tool for writing. Jitterbug http://jitterbug.tv/ If I use my iPad in my classroom this website/app will be a great tool to incorporate music into my lessons and daily classroom procedure. All the songs and music videos are family friendly. Gliffy http://www.gliffy.com/index_b.php?utm_expid=3614223&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fcooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com%2FOrganiser%2BTools

I would use this website to create neat and organized diagrams to incorporate into my lessons. A great tool for students to use when creating presentations or organizing their notes. 4freephotos http://4freephotos.com/ This website is a creative way to incorporate photography from around the world into lessons and classroom teaching. GapMinder http://www.gapminder.org/ A great website to show the trends of around the world; perfect for a social studies unit or economics. Graphic Organizers http://bilingualteacherresource.yolasite.com/graphic-organizers.php A great website to create your own graphic organizers or use the ones provided depending on the content area being taught. edHelper http://edhelper.com/ This website has tons of worksheets that can be used in various content areas. I would love to use these to have a fun worksheet activity to wrap up a lesson or if there is extra time.

Creative Commons/Open Source Resources (Lindsay Jansen)

Open University: The United Kingdoms Open University has some great resources on structuring writing lessons for high schoolers that I would use to inform my lessons on writing. I might also use these as an extra resource for students who express an interest in writing more creatively: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=397185 CK12.ORG: Writing about Literature: The Basics. This resource looks at the vocabulary used in discussing and analyzing literature. It provides me with a good base to start with in laying out the foundation for analysis with students. http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/chapter/7376 MIT OpenCourseWare: MIT offers free courses on a variety of subjects. This particular course takes a look at how to incorporate mass media into expository writing activities, which is likely to be a way to get students interested in writing. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/writing-and-humanistic-studies/21w-730-4expository-writing-analyzing-mass-media-spring-2001/

LearnNC: Selecting Evidence to Support an Argument. This is an entire lesson plan on how to teach students about choosing whats important in a piece of writing in order to construct an argument. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3651?ref=popular OERCommons: A general resource for a variety of lesson plans. http://www.oercommons.org/ Curriki: Another general database for open-source lesson plans. http://www.curriki.org/ Open Yale Courses: This particular class is for Modern Poetry and the page linked here is for a lesson on English poetry from World War I. This course could inform a lesson on Wilfred Owen. http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-7 The Internet Archive: This offers a variety of resources to be shared with students that are open-source. http://archive.org/details/texts Podcasts on Shakespeare: Here, Oxford has a number of podcasts on Shakespeare that may allow me to bring more depth to lesson planning. http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/approaching-shakespeare Great Writers Inspire: A slew of resources regarding great writersacademic lectures, images, and ebooksin addition to resources organized around themes. http://writersinspire.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/

Creative Commons Resource List (Malshawi)

Posted on July 7, 2012by malshawi

1. ccMixter is a site where students can download songs and also play around with mixing their own songs and creating new works. This would be useful for music classes, or students who are interested in music or sound. 2. Every Stock Photo has thousands of photos under every category imaginable available. Students could use this for research and teachers can use it to find appropriate photos that relate to assignments or for slide shows. 3. Intratext is a huge site providing thousands of textbooks in many languages for use. This could also be useful when working with ESL students. 4. Rewer is a site similar to You Tube, but all of the videos are Creative Commons. There are videos on a wide variety of topics available. 5. Our Media is a site with thousands of educational videos and archived news and historical information that can be used in the classroom. 6. CC Search is an excellent tool for students and educators because it is a search engine that only displays Creative Commons results. 7. Wikimedia Commons is also a great place for information, videos, photos, etc. on any topic under the sun. This would be useful for students and teachers alike. 8. The Library of Congress also has a ton of Creative Commons information especially useful for history or sociology lessons.

9. The government actually runs a website offering Creative Commons sources regarding science, history, the military, and agriculture, to name a few. 10. OER Commons is probably one of the best resources for teachers. It contains thousands of links to lesson plans, classroom activities, etc. on thousands of topics.

CREATIVE COMMONS

MaryAnne Hill

Useful for K-12

Name of Website

Description

Web Address

Curriki

A website for educators and students. There are many accessible materials. Site offers tools to collaborate across the globe and build lessons. Many, many tools!

http://www.curriki.org/

CK-12

Very interesting site in light of deep budget cuts and lack of funding for updated textbook. Offers something new called flexbooks an alternative choice.

http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/

Google Earth Lessons

A website by and for teachers that brings the world into the classroom. Lessons, photos, resources available.

http://gelessons.com/

Wikimedia

A Commons site featuring amazing pictures to bring realia to any lesson.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wayback Machine

A partnership between the Internet Archive and the Library of Congress where students 5-12th grade archive and save what they deem as important history.

http://archive.org/web/web.php

Ivy Run LLC

All material on this site has a Creative Commons License. Teacher resources and professional development.

http://www.ivyrun.com/

Khan Academy

Educational videos offered for high-quality education. Also features a place to track student progress.

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Freeloops.com

Over 400 CD quality free waves recorded by great inspiring musicians for freecopyright free. Can be used.many different instruments.

http://www.freeloops.com/

Ookaboo

Free pictures, more than you can imagine.

http://ookaboo.com/o/pictures/

TEDTalks

This a site filled with educational videos: Technology, Education, and Design! Check each video to make sure it has CC: Creative Commons listed.

CREATIVE COMMONS RESOURCES: (Meg) Flickr An online photo website where you can find photos to use in projects or lessons with students. Jamendo A site with free, downloadable music ccMixter More free, downloadable music to remix and compile for projects or videos.

open foto Find free photos to use in projects, plus upload; edit; and store your own photos. SpinXpress Create videos, music compilations, and other collaborative media projects. Open Clip Art Library Get free graphics for use in lessons, projects, or presentations Hassle Free Clip Art Free clip art for students to use in projects. WatchKnowLearn Royalty free educational videos to share with students. The KidsKnowIt Network Royalty Free educational videos to add to lessons. Royalty Free Music Downloadable music to put into podcasts or presentations. WikiBooks Open content books for doing research or reading for enjoyment.

10 Creative Commons Sources (Michael) 1) MIT Open Courseware. This site contains videos that I can use for TAG students that want to sample Linear Algebra, as taught by a famous university professor. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-spring-2010/index.htm 2) Worldwide Center of Mathematics. They produce digital versions of math textbooks and videos of lectures on common math topics. I can use this for my Calculus students that need additional exposure. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Case_Studies/Worldwide_Center_of_Mathematics

3) CA Free Digital textbook Initiative. This program is still developing but holds great promise. The new Common Core Standards are nearly upon us, yet we have no funds in the budget for new materials that are aligned with the new standards. These digital books supposedly are aligned. http://creativecommons.org/tag/open-textbooks/page/2 4) National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. This organization produces the equivalent of the math bible: Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. Many new math teachers do not have one; I will recommend this free digital copy. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/National_Council_of_Teachers_of_Mathematics__Principles_and_Standards_for_School_Mathematics 5) Sound Cloud. This site provides plenty of free music for when my students are working on group projects. http://soundcloud.com/ 6) Flickr. The popular image hosting site has a Creative Common partition that includes a volleyball match between Northern Michigan University Wildcats vs Lake Superior State University Lakers. I can show this to my high school freshman team to inspire them. www.flickr.com 7) Creative Commons Guatemala. This page had a really good article about identifying and preventing test anxiety, which is a major impediment for some of my students. It was even presented in English. http://gt.creativecommons.org/index.php/What_You_Need_To_Know_About_Anxiety_Physi cal_Symptoms_And_Practical_Treatments

Creative Commons Resources (Nicholas) MIT Open Courseware This is the spot where MIT has been putting up free online courses on a variety of subjects. Information found in these courses could be used as a further exploration tool for project-based learning or for student research on focused topics. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm Flat World Knowledge I feel like I should have known about this one already! This resource is a collection of free and open college textbooks that could prove helpful for a variety of research work or you could simply use one of the texts for the primary guidance in a class. http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

Teacher Tube As the name would suggest, this is a free online video collection for teachers and students. Ive generally used this site when Im dealing with YouTube being blocked by a school district or school building filtering system. http://www.teachertube.com/ Free Loops Whether you need a bumping bass beat or a rimshot after a corny classroom joke, this site has all of the audio files you could need. I always enjoyed incorporating audio into any presentations that I would use during lecture; it always seemed to me that a steady stream of bells and whistles (subtle bells and whistles of course) helped to keep the wandering minds focused. http://free-loops.com/ Flickr Creative Commons Section This is the section of Flickr where people can upload their materials as Creative Commons. There are plenty of non-pertinent materials that get uploaded to this site, but there are also a plenty that could be used for their educational value. As I mentioned in an above post, one of my favorite uses for photos is using them as writing prompts. http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ Pics4Learning Another free image site, this has them categorized nicely and the overall layout of the site is easy to navigate. This is one that I would definitely recommend for students who are looking for images to use on their own projects because of the easy navigation factor. http://www.pics4learning.com/ WikiTravel This CC site houses a combination of travel and destination guides along with some photos, videos, and written works that are uploaded for use by the travelers themselves. I would use this site when introducing a new place in geography or when referencing a place during history. http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page Lulu A CC site for embeddable videos, this site has a lot of general information as well as some special topic videos and texts that could be helpful when students are researching projects or furthering their knowledge of a specific subject. http://www.lulu.com/ New America Foundation This site has a huge amount of information on really wide variety of topics. Theres a good section on Economic Issues that could be used to help Econ students understand the current situation regarding the national and world economies. http://newamerica.net/about/copyright New Media Consortium (NMC) This is the group that puts out the Horizon Report that has become important to so many educators. Looking at some of the technologies that are on the horizon with students would be a good way to prep them for whats coming, even if they cant quite get their hands on it yet. http://www.nmc.org/publications

Creative Commons Resources (Nichole) 1. Khan Academy This site has over 3,000 high quality instructional videos. I have used it many times to supplement lessons in a variety of content areas, especially in math and science. http://www.khanacademy.org/ 2. Flickr This is one of the largest photo sharing sites out there. They have their own creative commons section. I often look here for images to use in lessons. http://www.flickr.com/search/?l=cc 3. Free Sound I was introduced to this site in my Making Digital Music class last week. It is full of thousands of tracks of free music all with creative commons licenses. I plan to use this site when I would like for my students to hear different animal sounds for a science unit. http://www.freesound.org/ 4. Myna This is a great program for editing audio. It is offered through the site, Aviary. I can use it when editing audio that my students have recorded for a variety of literacy activities. http://aviary.com/tools/myna 5. Wikimedia This site is a database with millions of freely usable resources. The options are endless with this site for audio, video, and images to add to lessons. I would look here for examples of the masters for art lessons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/ 6. Curriki I honestly have not had a lot of time to explore this site, but it looks great. I would love to look here for some creative commons licensed lesson plans and also collaborate with other educators. http://www.curriki.org/ 7. YouTube

Did you know that YouTube has creative commons videos? I was happy to find out that this is true. I use this site often in the classroom to show clips of things like weather, dancing, the solar system, or the Olympics. http://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons/ 8. Open Street Map The maps on this site are licensed under creative commons. I could use them for geography lessons in my classroom. http://www.openstreetmap.org/ 9. Clip Art I really dont use clip art that often, but when I do I would like to find something that is licensed under creative commons. This site has a lot of quality pictures that you could use in class. http://openclipart.org/ 10. Fonts There has been a few times when I have searched for some new fonts for a particular project at school. I found this site that has free fonts licensed under creative commons. http://openfontlibrary.org/

Creative Commons Resources: (Sam B)

Free Music Archive http://freemusicarchive.org/ The Free Music Archive is an archive of pre-cleared (often Creative Commons) music content that can be used in a variety of media productions; this isnt your typically awful synthy-Casio garbage-domain, but stuff from real artists you will want to listen to! I use this in my video editing classes for audio beds. Flat World Knowledge http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Amazing; free, open textbooks for a variety of subjects you can also edit the books and customize them for the way you teach. They make money by charging a little more if the student wants to change the way they read the book (custom printing, mobile etc.), but the savings are still incredible. Like they say on their home page, now is your chance to be a hero and help your students save thousands of dollars. MIT Open Courseware

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm Just like going to MIT except its free, and you dont end up with a degree. Otherwise, its exactly the same resources, lecture notes and videos you would have access to as a degree-seeking student. No registration required, so your students can freely access the content. Merlot http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm Merlot offers plug-ins for most online Learning Management Systems that allows instructors to directly search their catalog and insert learning modules into their existing courses. No getting tipsy now Find Sounds http://www.findsounds.com/ Find sounds (imagine that!) for your presentations, videos and audio projects in a variety of formats and sample rates. Files can be downloaded for free and used in any timeline based editor. Legends and Folktales http://www.oercommons.org/courses/legends-and-folktales/view This is a very cool, interactive site that displays a map of the world from which you can select different countries and watch videos on their local legends and tales. OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/ This is a huge database of creative commons, free-to-use teaching content from every corner of the glove (even places youve probably never heard of). KHAN Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/ I think its some kind of a law that this site be mentioned in any discussion of online learning, but it is a really neat concept of open learning, inspired by an individual with a lot of free time on his hands, creating videos that teach educational concepts. Its now bigger, and better? Google Advanced Search http://www.google.com/advanced_search Google? Seriously? Well with the advanced search you can limit your results by various usage rights, which can narrow down the type of content you receive via web-search. Cool, huh? Wisdom Commons

http://www.wisdomcommons.org/ Free-to-use collection of user submitted essays, poems and quotes classified and browsable (is that a word? Spell check says no) by themes such as idealism, common sense, courage etc. Excellent for philosophy classes as well as many humanities courses, as each quote is cited for correct attribution.

Creative Commons Resources (Scott B)

Posted on July 6, 2012by scottbailon

Here are ten Creative Common resources that I would use in class. 1) Freesound.org This website has sounds that students (and I) would be able to use to jazz up Powerpoint presentations. http://www.freesound.org/ 2) Archive.org This would be used as an online library source for students without access to a real library. Can be used by students as an additional source of information, audio media, moving images and lots more. http://archive.org/index.php 3) Google Advanced Search Google is recognized as a premier search engine by the world. Would be used in the classroom as a search engine as long as the CC license option is checked. I would have to make sure this point was made before using it in class. http://www.google.com/advanced_search 4) Animal Photos! As plainly stated, photos of animals. This site would be used as a photo resource for written reports, posters and Powerpoints about animals foreign or domestic.http://animalphotos.info/a/ 5) Yahoo Creative Commons Search Another well known name to use for searching the internet. This portion of Yahoo allows the user the option of using CC or the web standards for searching. To be used by students for current event projects or research projects. http://www.sitepoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/yahoo_com_cc.png 6) CK-12 This site would be used as a way for TAG students to explore other or advanced subjects in class or at home. This way they would be able to stay in my class and work ahead. http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/

7) Digital Storytelling A site that would be used by students in the classroom to make digital stories to share with classmates and for assignments. http://technology4kids.pbworks.com/w/page/24460567/DigitalStorytelling 8) Pics4Learning Another website for gathering pictures to use in reports or for posters. Lots of categories for any age group. http://www.pics4learning.com/ 9) TravellersPoint A great tool for Social Studies class and for learning about other countries in the world besides what can be gathered at the CIA World site. http://www.travellerspoint.com/photography.cfm 10) EduPic Graphical Resource for Educators Because you can never have enough pictures to use in class, for reports and Powerpoints. This site would be used by students and myself alike. http://edupic.net/

10 Creative Common Resources for Classroom Use (Tim F) http://www.khanacademy.org/ This is a database of videos that teachers or students can use to learn about a variety of subjects. There are video lessons of various lengths that cover Math, Science, Finance and Economics, humanities, and even test prep. http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/ CK-12 is a great tool for science and math teachers. This is a database of free textbooks for students and teachers to use. You can imagine this might solve a lot of problems like printing costs and worrying about students losing or forgetting expensive textbooks. http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Like CK-12, this is a database of free textbooks. But, the books are for college students. It was nice to see that this site had some textbooks on writing. This could be used as a source for mentor texts or for mini lessons on editing. https://p2pu.org/en/ P2PU stands for Peer to Peer University. This is a place to do some online learning. Much like online classes through Western you view the materials presented and hold discussions with the instructor and other students. There was even a class on how to be a networked teacher. https://p2pu.org/en/groups/edutoolkit-cnt12/content/introductions/

http://cnx.org/ Connexions is a site with several different resource texts that you can take and customize. As a user, you may take pieces from multiple modules and combine them in your own text-book. http://www.curriki.org/ This site is huge and has many components! You can join groups, share and use lesson plans, and search by standard and content area. http://www.oercommons.org/ Another resource website. This has a very global feel to it. I searched by content area (language arts) and by grade level (secondary). The tool I explored was one where you could type in a few sentences and find out where the words I used ranked in the most used in the world list. http://soundcloud.com/creativecommons Soundcloud allows users to create songs using the tools available on the site. Your own audio can be uploaded and you can remix songs that are already on there. This could be an awesome resource for music teachers. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page I found this commons page to be much easier to navigate due to the familiar Wikipedia format. The site offers videos, sounds, and images. http://vimeo.com/creativecommons The popular video site Vimeo recently added a creative commons section. The nice thing about this site is it breaks the licenses up and explains what they allow you to do. I searched for student book talks and found some possible examples to show my class.

Week 2 Ten Creative Commons Resources

Note: Some of these resources are specific to my use in photography and computer classes. Many of these resources can also be used for a variety of educational purposes and classes. 1. CC Search A portal to other search engines (e.g., Flick, Google Images, etc.) that contain Creative Commons media including photographs. When viewing results from other search engines, still need to verify the licensing. I can use the images to provide different examples of various photographic subjects and techniques in my photography class. http://search.creativecommons.org/ 2. Wikimedia Commons Contains images, videos, and sounds that can be searched or browsed by topic, location, type, author,

license, and source. I can use the images to provide different examples of various photographic subjects and techniques in my photography class. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 3. flickrCC A search engine to pull only images in flickr that have Creative Commons licenses. I can use the images to provide different examples of various photographic subjects and techniques in my photography class. http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/flickrCC/index.php 4. Google Advance Image Search You can filter your image search by usage rights selecting one of the free to use or share options. I can use the images to provide different examples of various photographic subjects and techniques in my photography class. http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search 5. Pics4Learning.com Contains a huge assortment of freely available images that you can search or browse the categories. I can use the images to provide different examples of various photographic subjects and techniques in my photography class. http://www.pics4learning.com/ 6. MIT Open Courseware There are an amazing number of high quality MIT courses available in subjects including engineering, arts, science, health sciences, architecture, etc. I can recommend many of the photography courses on this site as a way for my students to supplement the digital photography classes I teach. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm (general web site) Specific list of photography courses: http://search.mit.edu/search?site=ocw&client=mit&getfields=*&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=h ttp%3A%2F%2Focw.mit.edu%2Fsearch%2Fgoogle-ocw.xsl&proxyreload=1&as_dt=i&oe=utf8&departmentName=web&filter=0&courseName=&q=photography&btnG.x=0&btnG.y=0 7. Freesound.org A huge collection of free sound clips. I recommend these free sound clips to students in my Travel Photography class for inclusion in their digital slide shows. www.freesound.org 8. Jamendo CC licensed songs and albums. I recommend this free music to students in my Travel Photography class for inclusion in their digital slide shows. www.jamendo.com/en/ 9. Soundclick Contains some CC licensed songs just select Creative Commons as the license type. I recommend this free music to students in my Travel Photography class for inclusion in their digital slide shows. http://www.soundclick.com/business/license_list.cfm

10. How-To-Guide: Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators An excellent guide (CC licensed) that I recommend to my Travel Photography students to assist them with their creation of digital travel slide shows. http://langwitches.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Digital-Storytelling-Guide-by-Silvia-RosenthalTolisano.pdf