Title: Openness and its impact: Creativity and Citizen engagement; how do you translate this into making producing educational media for media producers? Access to content (web massive archive; UGC, citizen/networked journalism) Distributed creativity cognitive surplus Shift from formal OER to creative, participatory learning processes (ePortfolios0 how do these inform formal education practices again? Examples In Jan 2009 The Al Jazeera news network today made a bold and innovative world first – a Creative Commons repository of free news footage. Through their fresh repository site http://cc.aljazeera.net global media makers now have access to both Arabic and English news coverage from Al Jazeera’s correspondent network. The timely site launched with a library of exclusive and scarce material from within the Gaza Strip. The Creative archive group (http://www.bbc.co.uk/creativearchive/ was set up in 2005 by the BBC, bfi (British Film Institute), Channel 4 and the Open University to make certain archive content available for the public to use under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence (CAL). Currently the bfi and Open University are making archive film clips available for public use under this scheme. You do you make sense of these: and how do appropriate them within a learning context? --- Gissele Fereirra – Lecturer in ICTs and Learning – Open University http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3993 - Giselle on Cloudworkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8us6hUU8WRg&feature=player_embedded Giselle on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&feature=player_embedded Micheael Wesch on YouTube