I recently explored a digital tool called Animoto This tool helps users create short slideshows using a combination of texts, images and music! Before this exercise, I never fully understood the implications of Creative Commons (CC) or Copyrights. Finding images on Flickr and posting them onto Animoto helped me reflect on what I am doing. That is, I was taking content created by others and using it in my own work. This made me wonder what kind of laws are involved in these actions. As I researched CC and Copyrights, I learned about what can be copied and what cannot and under what conditions. For example, in Flickr under "Additional Info", a link to the copyright details are provided. This allowed me to learn more about what is required to be referenced and what I am allowed to do with the specific image. This really contributed to my Digital Literacy and Citizenship for two reasons. Firstly, I improved my Digital Literacy because I always knew how to use Google Images, but I never knew you were able to search images using preferences related to copyright options. This will allow me to search for resources for a school project in the future without worrying if the resources displayed are allowed for sharing or editing as I can narrow my search results down with advanced preferences searching. Secondly, I learned that I must always reference a resource like an image when it is copyrighted by an author. This is part of being a good digital citizen and a good citizen in general as it is the law!
My Slideshow (Animoto). Images in the video are referenced as (same order as the video):
1. WikiMedia Commons. Retrieved November 23, 2013, from Flickr http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACreative_commons.jpg
2. Seyfang, M. Copyright Symbols. Flickr. Retrieved November 23, 2013, from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeblogs/3020966500/
3. Casale, V. Handcuffs. Flickr. Retrieved November 23, 2013, from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/v1ctor/6711234961/
4. Vollmer, T. (2008, June 20). fair use classroom poster draft. Flickr. Retrieved November 23, 2013, from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixteenmilesofstring/2596569134/
No comments:
Post a Comment