Copyright

. flat Creative Commons for education Educators who use the web as a reference tool for their teaching always struggle to find a content that they can use without infringing the copyright laws. Most of the time the educators are not even aware of that, most of the content in the web is copyrighted automatically unless otherwise stated clearly. When an instructor heavily borrows the idea from the net it is considered as a copyright infringement. Sometimes it can be referred as plagiarism.

As an educator we don't want to encourage plagiarism yet we could use the extra help we can offer to our students.. Our intention is good, but we don't have the time or the skill to create all the content to enrich learning.

So What if we can have a resource that we can use without fear or worry about copyright infringement. These links below will give us more information.

The above picture is used from one of these sites.

This link takes you to a list of educational institutions who have dedicated their work as a creative commons so people can use it.

The next link takes us to the US government site that has an information about sharing the information openly. We can find source to use [|here]

In addition, below are a few more sites to check out available media options.

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

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[|https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons]/

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=Creative Commons= Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that allows users to licenses their works in a way that allows others to share and use the work without violating copyright laws. The standardized way of giving public permission is outline by the license types listed below. Click on each license type to learn more about the rules that govern each license.

License Types
 * Attribution
 * Attribution-ShareAlike
 * Attribution-NoDerivs
 * Attribution-NonCommercial
 * Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
 * Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

=Resources= http://copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com/home http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/Copyright @http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ @http://creativecommons.org/