Social networking and copyright

Hans PõldojaUIAH Media Lab

hans.poldoja@uiah.fi

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Topics

Social networking

• Practical cases of using social networking tools for learning

• Folksonomy and tagging

• RSS feeds and aggregators

Copyright

• Open content licenses and Creative Commons

• Collections of open content

• Collections of open educational resources

Practical cases of using social networking tools for learning

http://mlab.uiah.fi/nml2006/

http://htk.tlu.ee/compactive/

http://htk.tlu.ee/etwinest07/

WordPress and blogs

WordPress

WordPress

Blogging terms

• Post• Comment• Category• Blogroll• RSS feed

Getting WordPress

Free hosting• http://wordpress.com/• http://edublogs.org/Installing to your own web server• http://wordpress.org/

Frappr! and social mapping

http://www.frappr.com/

Flickr and photo sharing

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

Folksonomy

Terms

• Folksonomy• Tag• Tag cloud

http://www.flickr.com/

Choosing a tag for your event

• calibrate07portoroz• compactive06• etwinest07• etwinning07polva• isummit07• itk07

Slideshare and presentation sharing

http://slideshare.net/

Social bookmarking

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

Collaborative writing

http://www.writeboard.com

http://www.writeboard.com

http://docs.google.com/

http://docs.google.com/

Youtube and movie sharing

http://www.youtube.com

RSS

RSS readers

• Feedreader: http://www.feedreader.com

• NetNewsWire Lite: http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/

• Lifrea: http://liferea.sourceforge.net/

http://www.feedreader.com/

http://www.bloglines.com

Searching and aggregating RSS

http://www.technorati.com

http://www.technorati.com/tag/learnip2006

Summary

• WordPress

• http://www.frappr.com

• http://www.flickr.com

• http://www.slideshare.net

• http://del.icio.us

• http://www.writeboard.com

• http://www.youtube.com

• http://www.technorati.com

Learning resources and copyright

Copyright laws

• Educational use in motivated amount is permitted (fair use)

• You need author’s agreement to distribute, adapt or translate the resource.

Creative Commons licenses

http://creativecommons.org/

http://creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons licenses

• Attribution license

• Attribution–ShareAlike license

• Attribution–NonCommercial license

• Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike license

• Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs license

• Attribution–NoDerivs license

Other open licences

• GNU Free Documentation License (used in Wikipedia)

• Public Domain (works that are not under copyright)

How to recognize the license?

http://creativecommons.org/

Where to find open content?

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://commons.wikimedia.org/

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

http://www.ourmedia.org/

http://www.archive.org/

http://commoncontent.org/

http://search.creativecommons.org/

Where to find open educational resources?

http://ocw.mit.edu

http://ocw.usu.edu/

http://en.wikibooks.org/

http://en.wikiversity.org/

http://wikieducator.org/

http://cnx.org/

http://www.oercommons.org/

Limitations of Creative Commons licenses

You can’t remix them

Creative CommonsAttribution-ShareAlike

license

LeMill

Wikimedia Commons(partly)

USU OCW (partly)

GNUFree Documentation

License

Wikipedia

Wikimedia Commons (partly)

Creative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial-

ShareAlike license

MIT OCW

USU OCW (partly)

26%

26%

48%

(Wiley, 2007)

Approximate Distribution of Copyleft Licenses for Content

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlikeAttribution-Non-ShareAlikeGNU Free Documentation License

(Creative Commons, 2007)

Solutions

• Remix and publish your work inside one Creative Commons license

• Double licensing: make your work available under two licenses (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and GNU Free Documentation License)

References

• Creative Commons (2007). Frequently Asked Questions. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ

• Wiley, D. (2007). Open Education License Draft. http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/355

Thank You!

hans.poldoja@uiah.fi

skype: hanspoldoja

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