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Creative Commons-Licensed Resources for Teaching and Learning
1. Martha E. Hardy
martha.hardy@metrostate.edu
April 3, 2009
CREATIVE COMMONS-LICENSED RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
Creative Commons & Related Concepts
What is Copyleft? GNU Project, Free Software Foundation:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
Creative Commons [official site]: http://creativecommons.org/
A Shared Culture, Creative Commons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKm96Ftfko
Cory Doctorow: Creative Commons:
http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2007/11/cory-doctorow-creative-commons.html
7 Things You Should Know About Creative Commons, EDUCAUSE:
http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutCreat/156826
Creative Commons and the Culture of Sharing, Rising Voices:
http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/08/28/creative-commons-and-the-
culture-of-sharing/
Open Knowledge Definition: http://www.opendefinition.org/1.0/
Search Engines
Creative Commons Search: http://search.creativecommons.org/
Google Advanced Search: http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Yahoo! Creative Commons Search: http://search.yahoo.com/cc
Images
Flickr: Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ and The
Commons: http://www.flickr.com/commons (use Advanced Search)
Open Clip Art Library: http://openclipart.org/
Every Stock Photo: http://www.everystockphoto.com/
Multimedia
Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
SpinXpress: http://spinxpress.com
Video
Blip.tv: http://blip.tv/ Users assign their own licensing
Ourmedia: http://www.ourmedia.org/ Also includes podcasts
Revver: http://revver.com/
2. Audio
Jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com
Owl Music Search: http://www.owlmusicsearch.com/
Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/ (sounds, not songs)
Books
IntraText Digital Library: http://www.intratext.com/
O’Reilly Open Books: http://oreilly.com/openbook/
Creative Commons: Books: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Books
Scholarly Journals
Public Library of Science (PLoS) Journals: http://www.plos.org/
BioMed Central: http://www.biomedcentral.com/
Open Educational Resources
UNESCO OER Community: http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org & http://oerwiki.iiep-
unesco.org/index.php?title=OER_useful_resources/Repositories
MIT OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu
Open Education Resources Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/.
Connexions: http://cnx.org/
OpenCourseWare Consortium: http://www.ocwconsortium.org/members/consortium-
members.html
Textbooks
Community College Open Text Book Project: http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
Flat World Knowledge: http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org
Open Text Book: http://www.opentextbook.org/
Library Guides and Tutorials
University of Michigan Libraries Guides & Tutorials: http://www.lib.umich.edu/guides/,
http://www.lib.umich.edu/creativecommons/
Animated Tutorial Sharing Project (ANTS): http://ants.wetpaint.com/
Metropolitan State University Library JumpStart Guides (selected):