Stop #23: Creative Commons

In the apsu23things blog, nearly all of the posted media was created by somebody else, so it ought to be accompanied by a Creative Commons license.  An example of this is shown on Thing 21 at the very end of the post.

Prior to this class, I had never heard of Creative Commons and was uneducated on fair use practices.  I want to make sure that my students don't get as far in life as I did without being exposed to licensing and fair use.  In the classroom, I would like to be able to teach about Creative Commons on the first day of class every semester/year because I want my students to understand my expectations of coursework very early.  Since we already worked on creating a tutorial for Creative Commons in this class, I have an idea of how I could construct the lesson.  Understanding fair use is as important as understanding plagiarism, yet schools place way more emphasis on the latter.  I want to ensure my students understand the implications of both clearly.