Well, it's about time! While I am sure each campus has a media specialist that knows and understands Fair Use and Creative Commons, how often do our librarians share this amazing information with the teachers? Again, why I am so glad about this new learning as I can now share this information with my teachers! This is absolutely wonderful. Also, the explanation about Fair Use has always been a bit confusing and referencing it has often been very muddy; lending myself to mostly opinions or interpretations about what it means. Creative Commons seems to take the "mumbo jumbo" and complexity out of it.
While I have never shared curriculum on the web that I have created, I know several teachers that use Promethean Planet and create flip charts and place them on their web site. With that being said, how many of those teachers are using pictures taken from Google Images or some other web site and really don't have the rights to use that content?
Also, Creative Commons has enough merit that it should/must be shared with teachers and students so as they begin creating powerpoint presentations or digital story boards, that they are using content that is available and "free" to use without the worry or complications of staying w/in the Fair Use Guidelines. Honestly, I don't enough folks, myself included, that want to read through that and accurately interpret how to use digital pictures and other available web content.
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