creative commons

Are you a future educator/musician/artist/or just flat out love the arts? If you said yes to any of these then creative commons is the thing for you! Check out http://creativecommons.org/

Creative commons is an organization that takes copyrighting, and twists it to fit what you need! Say, for example, you are a local musician, and you create a new song. Instead of having a plain old copyright for your song where no one can touch it, you can have a creative commons copyright, that allows others to build off of your music for remixes/videos/etc. All you have to do is answer a few questions about how much or little you want other people to be able to do with your creations, and creative commons will give you that type of copyright for your work.

Educators can use this to do many things. They can use pictures taken by photographers in their slideshows, they can use content from other teachers around the world teaching the same thing they teach, and build on that. Imagine being a teacher, and collaborating with thousands of other teachers to create lesson plans that are interactive, fun, and educational for your students. I think that creative commons is a brilliant organization and I definitely plan to take advantage of it as a future educator!