Martha E. [email protected]
April 3, 2009
CREATIVE COMMONS-LICENSED RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Creative Commons & Related Concepts
What is Copyleft? GNU Project, Free Software Foundation: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
Creative Commons [official site]: http://creativecommons.org/ A Shared Culture, Creative Commons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=1DKm96Ftfko Cory Doctorow: Creative Commons:
http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/11/cory-doctorow-creative-commons.html
7 Things You Should Know About Creative Commons, EDUCAUSE: http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutCreat/156826
Creative Commons and the Culture of Sharing, Rising Voices: http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/08/28/creative-commons-and-the-culture-of-sharing/
Open Knowledge Definition: http://www.opendefinition.org/1.0/
Search Engines
Creative Commons Search: http://search.creativecommons.org/ Google Advanced Search: http://www.google.com/advanced_search Yahoo! Creative Commons Search: http://search.yahoo.com/cc
Images
Flickr: Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ and The Commons: http://www.flickr.com/commons (use Advanced Search)
Open Clip Art Library: http://openclipart.org/ Every Stock Photo: http://www.everystockphoto.com/
Multimedia
Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page SpinXpress: http://spinxpress.com
Video
Blip.tv: http://blip.tv/ Users assign their own licensing Ourmedia: http://www.ourmedia.org/ Also includes podcasts Revver: http://revver.com/
Audio
Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com Owl Music Search: http://www.owlmusicsearch.com/ Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/ (sounds, not songs)
Books
IntraText Digital Library: http://www.intratext.com/ O’Reilly Open Books: http://oreilly.com/openbook/ Creative Commons: Books: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Books
Scholarly Journals
Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals: http://www.plos.org/ BioMed Central: http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Open Educational Resources
UNESCO OER Community: http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org & http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=OER_useful_resources/Repositories
MIT OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu Open Education Resources Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/. Connexions: http://cnx.org/ OpenCourseWare Consortium:
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/members/consortium-members.html
Textbooks
Community College Open Text Book Project: http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
Flat World Knowledge: http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org Open Text Book: http://www.opentextbook.org/
Library Guides and Tutorials
University of Michigan Libraries Guides & Tutorials: http://www.lib.umich.edu/guides/, http://www.lib.umich.edu/creativecommons/
Animated Tutorial Sharing Project (ANTS): http://ants.wetpaint.com/ Metropolitan State University Library JumpStart Guides (selected):
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