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OER Handbook for Educators 1.0

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The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning (COSL) has been hosting an OER Handbook on WikiEducator for a while now, inviting others to contribute and edit various elements of the book. Now they’ve finally published the first printable version of one of their mini-handbooks: OER Handbook for Educators 1.0.  The actual handbook isn’t so mini—though…

KQED's QUEST on OER and CC Licensing

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One morning in late June, I made the trek out to the outer mission area to interview two KQED QUEST producers: Sue Ellen McCann and Craig Rosa. I first met Sue Ellen and Craig a couple months prior, when we had an informal discussion about possibly CC licensing some of QUEST’s raw footage for a…

2nd Annual Digital Media and Learning Competition

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Last week, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, long-time supporter of CC, announced the second annual Digital Media and Learning Competition. The 2008 competition is a collaborative result of the MacArthur Foundation, the University of California, Irvine, Duke University, and HASTAC, a virtual and voluntary network of educators and innovators committed to improving…

Georgia

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Nino Kuntseva-Gabashvili, Merab Labadze, and Zviad Sulaberidze; Business Intelligence and Valuation Group, Ltd.

Armenia

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Creative Commons is working with Center for Information Law and Policy (CILP) to create Armenia jurisdiction-specific licenses from the generic Creative Commons licenses. CCi Armenia List Project Lead: Movses Hakobyan License draft (PDF). English re-translation and explanation of substantive legal changes (PDF). Post a message. Subscribe to the discussion. Read the discussion archives. More About…

REMINDER: CC Salon LA Next Week (9/3/08): Xeni Jardin and GOOD Magazine

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A friendly reminder that we are hosting the latest CC Salon LA next week (9/3/08) at the FOUND Gallery in Silverlake (Google map) between 7:30PM-9:30PM. Joining us will be Xeni Jardin, Tech Culture Journalist and co-editor at Boing Boing, and Casey Caplowe, Creative Director of GOOD Magazine. Both will discuss how CC, and ‘openness’ in…

ABC (Australia) Launches CC-Friendly Social Media Site "Pool"

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Great news coming in from our friends at CC Australia – the ABC, Australia’s national public broadcaster, just launched a CC-friendly social media space, Pool, which is designed to provide a “place for creative content makers to upload their work, publish and collaborate.” Pool offers users the ability to upload their content – whatever the…

Community Generated HowTos

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Molly Kleinman, the “multi-purpose” librarian, has started putting together some easy to digest HowTos on Creative Commons. In HowTo #1 she details some very reasonable examples of proper attribution: An Ideal Attribution This video features the song “Play Your Part (Pt.1)” by Girl Talk, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. © 2008, Greg Gillis.…

Semantic Media Wiki Quick Reference Guide

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Creative Commons uses Semantic Media Wiki for both our external wiki and our internal task and project management system. As opposed to a normal wiki where text is “flat”, the text and data inside a SMW can be structured in sophisticated ways that allow for meaningful querying of knowledge statements of the corpus. To give a…