These are the slides I used for a Tech Talk I did for parents at the American Community School of Abu Dhabi to support our digital citizenship theme "ethical."

1. Creative Commons
and the Ethical Use
of Internet
Resources
Thomas Galvez
High School Technology Learning Coach

2. Digital Citizenship

3. Digital
Citizenship
Balanced
Positive
Responsible
Literate

4. CC Image by Mason Dan on Flickr

5. Ethical students give credit where credit is
due. They know how to research for
information
without plagiarizing from the web.

6. Writing
MLA Citations and Works Cited
Paraphrasing, Summarizing, Quoting

7. Images
Video
Music
CC Image by Hugo Espinozas on Flickr
Multimedia?

8. International Society for
Technology in Education
(ISTE)
RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP STANDARD
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues
related to information and technology and practice legal
and ethical behavior.
ASSESSABLE BENCHMARK
Students advocate and practice safe, legal, and
responsible use of information and technology.

9. Fair
Use

10. Exclusive rights given to an
author or creator of an original
work to:
Reproduce the work
Publish the work
Include in film or TV
Make an adaptation

11. Fair Use
Allows for for work to be used by
someone else other than the copyright
holder in context of:
Criticism
Comment
Newsreporting
Teaching
Scholarship
Research

12. Image licensed from iStock Photo
4 Factors

13. CC Image by Nedral on Flickr
Purpose Amount
Nature Effect

14. Purpose
What purpose do you need to use
the material? Education?
Research? Non-Profit?
Transformative (re-purposed)?

15. Amount
How much of the material is
appropriate to use? This depends
on purpose.

16. Nature
Factual, non-fiction for
instructional purposes? Likely Fair
Use.
Fictional, highly creative? Not
likely
Fair Use.
Published?

17. Effect
Sales, duration, availability,
quantity?

18. CC Image by Thuy Pham on Flickr
Mash
Up

19. Mash
Up
CC Image by Thuy Pham on
Flickr
“Hands in the Air”
by Girl Talk

20. CC Image by Nedral on Flickr
Purpose Amount
Nature Effect
What purpose do you
need to use the
material? Education?
Research? Non-Profit?
Transformative (re-
purposed)?
How much of the
material is
appropriate to use?
This depends on
purpose.
Factual, non-fiction for instructional
purposes? Likely Fair Use.
Fictional, highly creative? Not likely
Fair Use.
Published?
Sales, duration,
availability,
quantity?

21. What
do
we
teach
students?
Image licensed from iStock Photo

22. Even Better
Have students use images, songs, or video
available through Creative Commons or Royalty
Free sites
OK (with caution)
Do not allow students to cut and paste images or use
music from the internet without giving credit to the
source.
Best
Have students create their own images, music, or
video

24. “Creative Commons develops, supports, and stewards
legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes
digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.”
Provides “a set of copyright licenses and tools that
create a balance inside the traditional ‘all rights
reserved’ setting that copyright law creates.”
https://creativecommons.org/about/

25. CC Image by Barta IV on Flickr
CC Image by Akshay
Shah on Flickr
Producers
and
Consumers CC Image by Mike Licht on Flickr

26. CC Image by Barta IV on Flickr
CC Image by Akshay
Shah on Flickr
Producers

29. The
Licenses

30. Attribution

31. Attribution
+
ShareAlike

32. Attribution
+ NoDerivs

33. Attribution +
NonCommercial

34. Attribution +
NonCommercial
+ ShareAlike

35. Attribution +
NonCommercial
+ NoDerivs

38. Consumers
CC Image by Mike Licht on Flickr

39. creativecommons.org
search.creativecommons.org

40. CC Image by mjmonty on Flickr

41. Google Images Creative Commons Search

42. Image from GCF LearnFree

43. Expect
Require
Assess

44. Model
CC Image by eVo Photo on Flickr

45. Resources
Pictures
•http://search.creativecommons.org (Flickr is the best one)
•http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/
•http://www.gettyimages.ae/creativeimages/royaltyfree
•Google Image Search Tools Usage Rights
Music
•http://search.creativecommons.org (Choose Jamendo)
•Freemusicarchive.org
•dig.ccmixter.org
Video
•http://search.creativecommons.org (Choose YouTube)

46. CC Image by Robert Barney on Flickr