Rachel's Blog: Creative Common

This week's assignment has us learning about copyright laws. This has been a very interesting topic. I have worked with many other instructors that either completely abide by the laws or completely ignore them. Then there is the millions of users that think downloading music for free is some god forsaken right. Yeah I am talking about those people that I have to clean the virus' from their computers because they welcomed infected files into their personal computer!

So back on subject....COPYRIGHT....and CREATIVE COMMON. Creative Common helps you share your work with the world, while protecting you from wrongful use. Although I am not currently working in the classroom, nor writing curriculum, I could see how Creative Common would be a great tool for teachers. You could create and share the work without getting ripped off from someone else using it as their own. Creative Common allows you to designate who uses it and how they can use it, therefore protecting your work. It also works the other way around. I could use someone else's work without having to recreate the wheel. A WIN-WIN situation for everyone!

Here is an image I found on Creative Common that I would share with my class to help teach about the OSI Model in Networking.