By Request - A Primer on Creative Commons

This morning on Twitter I was asked for a suggestion for a primer on Creative Commons. My first thought was this resource from Common Craft ...

You Shouldn't Be an Instructional Technology Coordinator If You Don't Understand This...

I realize that this post comes from the pages of, I'm tired of writing about this and you are probably tired of it too, but I have to t...

Fair Use, Copyright, and Educational Blogging

Last night someone on Twitter asked me for advice about how to respond to discovering that his blog posts were being re-used without permiss...

Get Creative Commons Savvy With These Activities

Yesterday, I shared the EFF's lesson plans for teaching copyright. After using those plans you may want to move your students on to unde...

5 Good Lesson Plans for Teaching Copyright

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a set of comprehensive lesson plans about copyright simply titled Teaching Copyright . Te...

Copyright on Campus - A Six Minute Exploration of the Nuances of Copyright

Copyright and Fair Use are cloudy areas for many students and educators to try to navigate. This evening I found Copyright on Campus which ...

A Short Guide to Finding and Using Media on Your Blog - Part 1

A blog can get boring after a while if paragraphs of text is all that ever gets posted to it. More importantly, your students will get bored...

A Good Collection of 13 Digital Citizenship Resources

Jen Deyenberg at Northern Gateway Public Schools has created a nice collection of digital citizenship resources for teachers and parents ....

Free Courses On Copyright and Creative Commons for Educators

Next week P2PU (Peer 2 Peer University) is starting a few free online courses of interest to educators. On March 18, P2PU will offer Copyrig...

A Short Guide to Copyright for Educators

Copyright and Creative Commons can be confusing topics. There are many variables that apply to every situation so it is hard to layout hard ...

Creative Commons in Plain English

I just published a post about creating attributions for Creative Commons licensed images. Writing that post reminded me that Creative Comm...

Copyright-free Music Coming to Pixorial Soon

Last month I wrote about a relatively new online video editor called Pixorial . Since then a couple of important things have happened at Pix...

A Magical Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism

A Magical Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism is an infographic guide created by Kate Hart. The guide was published back in June, but I just learn...

A New Tool for Choosing a Creative Commons License

Creative Commons licensing can be a good way to explicitly state the terms by which people can use and re-use your creative written, audio, ...

A History of Copyright

Last week I shared a Common Craft video about Copyright and Creative Commons . This morning I'd like to pass along a related video about...

Copyright & Creative Commons Explained by Common Craft

Whenever I give a presentation or run a workshop about student video projects, I encourage the use of Creative Commons licensed media when...

Copyright for Canadians

Next week I will be speaking at the Teacher 2 Teacher conference in Bow Island, Alberta. One of my presentations next week is about student...

Week in Review - A Big Thank You

I have to start this week in review by saying thank you to everyone that emailed, Tweeted, Facebooked, and commented in support of my effort...

Stop Blaming the Technology

Warning, this is an editorial rant about plagiarism in response to the dealings I've had this week with a person who has been stealing b...

YouTube Launches Copyright School

Today, YouTube launched a redesigned copyright center and a brand new Copyright School . These new services are designed to educate YouTube...