Thing # 9: Copyright and Creative Commons.

My seventh grade digital media project using the photos at the "Minnesota Digital Library" was all about copyright. Students emailed the organizations holding the copyright of the images they wanted to use in their "Google Docs" presentation asking for permission to use then. It was a good exercise. I introduced Creative Commons to my digital media classes when we were uploading their images to Flickr. I wanted them to take pride in their work and to create their own accounts and use Creative Commons if they wanted to determine how others could use their images.