Hopefully an amusing picture of the confusion around sharing.

I remember starting teaching, topic boxes, shared rersources, banda worksheets etc.

A computer freed me from the smell, mistakes, a freed pupils from my handwriting and spelling.

I had a short period of time where I made and sold educational shareware and learned a bit about fobiding license agreements. It also pointed out the difficulty of making money from resources I created. Before the Internet had reached classrooms, mailing every school in Scotland a folded A4 and delivering software on floppy disk, made me 100s of £ but took 1000s of hours.

I was learning about online sharing through AOL HyperCard forums and mailing list. I’ve still not seen more generous place, a mix of professionals, amaturs & newcommers.

I then got more interested in my pupils sharing their learning via blogs and podcasts, seeing the wonderfilled results. This lead me to sharing on my own blog and living to some extent on the Internet.

We share all of the time online, status, photos, ideas, documents ect. The cost is low, no stamps, paper, printing costs.

I am just thinking aloud around sharing.

This is not powerpoint, but looks pretty mucgh like a bad one.

Click on the logo, check the different licenses. As a blogger I soon became aware of creative commons

Like a good little blogger I’ve been trying to apply these liceses to my blog, flickr photos etc and respect them Like lots of teachers I have sometimes, just gogoled an image and copy-pasted text with abandon Like lots of Internet natives I sometime choose to ignore copyright of large companies to make an amusing gif

How far do you go, a google search for license material, trus a link…

Like anyone interested in education and reading a wee bit on the Internet I was aware of the OER movement, it often seemed a bit dry and technical, discussing repositories and metadata in a technical way.

Last year I (along with Ian) got an invite to an Open Scotland forum meeting. This proved enlightening, after the first few minutes I realised that I was an ‘open educator’;-)

Lescester Great project

http://opencontent.org/definition/ Access to Editing Tools: Is the open content published in a format that can only be revised or remixed using tools that are extremely expensive (e.g., 3DS MAX)? Is the open content published in an exotic format that can only be revised or remixed using tools that run on an obscure or discontinued platform (e.g., OS/2)? Is the open content published in a format that can be revised or remixed using tools that are freely available and run on all major platforms (e.g., OpenOffice)? Level of Expertise Required: Is the open content published in a format that requires a significant amount technical expertise to revise or remix (e.g., Blender)? Is the open content published in a format that requires a minimum level of technical expertise to revise or remix (e.g., Word)? Meaningfully Editable: Is the open content published in a manner that makes its content essentially impossible to revise or remix (e.g., a scanned image of a handwritten document)? Is the open content published in a manner making its content easy to revise or remix (e.g., a text file)? Self-Sourced: It the format preferred for consuming the open content the same format preferred for revising or remixing the open content (e.g., HTML)? Is the format preferred for consuming the open content different from the format preferred for revising or remixing the open content (e.g. Flash FLA vs SWF)?

Reuse – Use the work verbatim, just exactly as you found it Rework – Alter or transform the work so that it better meets your needs Remix – Combine the (verbatim or altered) work with other works to better meet your needs Redistribute – Share the verbatim work, the reworked work, or the remixed work with others

My first interesting experience with Creative Commons. CBS News used my image without attribution and possible in breach of my then NC license.

Later I’ve had more pleasent interactions, people asked if they could use images in websites & a book (I got a free book)

Several formats including OpenOffice, word, html, pdf

Not got a license on it yet, thinking about open government license