Creative Commons is something that I am learning to pay attention to as I have taken my Masters courses. I understand that it's important that I am aware of the copyright laws and that I abide by them and teach my students to abide by those as well. Before I started this degree I never paid attention to copyright and didn't know a thing about it.
To teach my students about CC I would do the following:
I would plan to teach this lesson in a computer lab where students could access the following videos. After each video clip students are to record what they understood and anything they found confusing.
Video #1
Video #2
Video #3
After the video opener to the lesson we would discuss what the students watched, what they understood and what they didn't understand. Following the viewing of the videos they would be directed to the creative commons site and instructed to fill out a worksheet that outlines the different levels of creative commons (Attribution, Attribution Share Alike, Attribution No Derivatives, Attribution Non Commercial, Attribution Non Commerical Share Alike.
As homework, they are to create a piece of work and bring it to class to display and they will choose and explain their level of creative commons. They will also be assigned to check out flickr's creative commons area and http://animalphotos.info/a/ for a list of animal pictures that are free to use under the creative commons law for class projects.
It is expected that any projects using a piece of artwork (in whatever form it may be) will be used properly under the creative commons laws addressed in class.
I think that CC is huge and it does not seem to be well taught by librarians I am around. I like your idea about students creating projects and then licensing them. I have my kids do this and it helps them to understand when they have to decide how much they want to share. The monetary element, even though they would not have this, they think they might, proves to be an interesting factor to them. Nice write-up.
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