Creative Commons!

I am now licensed thanks to Creative Commons! At first, I wasn’t sure which of the licenses would be best for me to use as an educator. After some research and debating with my peers, I made a decision. It was easy to fill out the CC license questionnaire. Embedding it to my blog was the challenge. I registered for a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. That means that my digital work is able to be shared and remix to fit someone work. It cannot be used for commercial purposes. It must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor. And someone could contact me to get permission waived. 

            CC would be a wonderful tool for my students to use with their digital work.  Before I use this with my students, I would need to check with my technology department and parents for approval. Mostly likely I would need to put together a letter to my students’ parents informing them of the different types of licenses.  Since I work with fourth graders, I would encourage them to really think about how they would like their information shared.  We could debate between the different licenses in class, but I would encourage them to follow in my footsteps. I would have to walk my students through the entire process step by step to register a CC license.