Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Finding Good OER; Recap

Tom Caswell shared a number of links during his excellent presentation yesterday.  Here is a summary list:
·         Creative Commons video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb_7hZGaxm8
·         Creative Commons license picker: http://creativecommons.org/choose/
·         OCW Finder: http://www.ocwfinder.org  
·         MIT OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu) and the Kahn Academy (http://khanacademy.org)
·         SBCTC’s OER Matrix: http://bit.ly/oer-matrix
·         ELC OER group: http://elc-oer.blogspot.com
·         Open Course Library: http://opencourselibrary.org



In case you missed the presentation, here is a link to the recording:
https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-04-05.1536.M.1286F0C21FA258F7D83EE80B8FA025.vcr&sid=2008170

Monday, April 4, 2011

Creative Commons - A Shared Culture

This 3-minute video explains the idea behind Creative Commons. The non-profit company has created a series of free licenses to allow people more choices in sharing their creative works with others. Want to create your own Creative Commons license? Go to http://creativecommons.org/choose/, answer 2 questions, and you're done!

Creative Commons LicenseThe above video by Creative Commons is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.