Social networking and
copyright
Hans Põldoja
UIAH Media Lab
hans.poldoja@uiah.fi

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Topics
Social networking
• Practical cases of using social networking tools for learning
• Folksonomy and tagging
• RSS feeds and aggregators
Copyright
• Open content licenses and Creative Commons
• Collections of open content
• Collections of open educational resources

Practical cases of using social
networking tools for learning

http://mlab.uiah.fi/nml2006/

http://htk.tlu.ee/compactive/

http://htk.tlu.ee/etwinest07/

WordPress and blogs

WordPress

WordPress

Blogging terms
• Post
• Comment
• Category
• Blogroll
• RSS feed

Getting WordPress
Free hosting
• http://wordpress.com/
• http://edublogs.org/
Installing to your own web server
• http://wordpress.org/

Frappr! and social mapping

http://www.frappr.com/

Flickr and photo sharing

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.flickr.com/

Folksonomy

Terms
• Folksonomy
• Tag
• Tag cloud

http://www.flickr.com/

Choosing a tag for your event
• calibrate07portoroz
• compactive06
• etwinest07
• etwinning07polva
• isummit07
• itk07

Slideshare and presentation
sharing

http://slideshare.net/

Social bookmarking

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

http://del.icio.us/

Collaborative writing

http://www.writeboard.com

http://www.writeboard.com

http://docs.google.com/

http://docs.google.com/

Youtube and movie sharing

http://www.youtube.com

RSS

RSS readers
• Feedreader: http://
www.feedreader.com
• NetNewsWire Lite: http://
ranchero.com/netnewswire/
• Lifrea: http://liferea.sourceforge.net/

http://www.feedreader.com/

http://www.bloglines.com

Searching and aggregating RSS

http://www.technorati.com

http://www.technorati.com/tag/learnip2006

Summary
• WordPress
• http://www.frappr.com
• http://www.flickr.com
• http://www.slideshare.net
• http://del.icio.us
• http://www.writeboard.com
• http://www.youtube.com
• http://www.technorati.com

Learning resources and
copyright

Copyright laws
• Educational use in motivated amount
is permitted (fair use)
• You need author’s agreement to
distribute, adapt or translate the
resource.

Creative Commons licenses

http://creativecommons.org/

http://creativecommons.org/

Creative Commons licenses
• Attribution license
• Attribution–ShareAlike license
• Attribution–NonCommercial license
• Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike license
• Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivs license
• Attribution–NoDerivs license

Other open licences
• GNU Free Documentation License
(used in Wikipedia)
• Public Domain (works that are not
under copyright)

How to recognize the license?

http://creativecommons.org/

Where to find open content?

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://commons.wikimedia.org/

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

http://www.ourmedia.org/

http://www.archive.org/

http://commoncontent.org/

http://search.creativecommons.org/

Where to find open educational
resources?

http://ocw.mit.edu

http://ocw.usu.edu/

http://en.wikibooks.org/

http://en.wikiversity.org/

http://wikieducator.org/

http://cnx.org/

http://www.oercommons.org/

Limitations of Creative
Commons licenses

You can’t remix them
GNU Creative Commons Creative Commons
Free Documentation Attribution-ShareAlike Attribution-NonCommercial-
License license ShareAlike license
Wikipedia LeMill MIT OCW
Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons USU OCW (partly)
(partly) (partly)
USU OCW (partly)

Approximate Distribution of Copyleft
Licenses for Content
26%
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
48% Attribution-Non-ShareAlike
GNU Free Documentation License
26%
(Wiley, 2007)

(Creative Commons, 2007)

Solutions
• Remix and publish your work inside
one Creative Commons license
• Double licensing: make your work
available under two licenses (Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike and
GNU Free Documentation License)

References
• Creative Commons (2007). Frequently Asked Questions. http://
wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ
• Wiley, D. (2007). Open Education License Draft. http://opencontent.org/blog/
archives/355

Thank You!
hans.poldoja@uiah.fi
skype: hanspoldoja
http://www.hanspoldoja.net