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This is an educational short video by Creative Commons explaining what the CC license is about. It explains the basics of copyright and how others can use copyrighted of pieces. It explains how to make your own artwork into creative commons pieces.

This is an educational short video by Creative Commons explaining what the CC license is about. It explains the basics of copyright and how others can use copyrighted of pieces. It explains how to make your own artwork into creative commons pieces.

"This may seem obvious, but judging by the notices we have received, many teachers (and especially students) are under the impression that if it is on the web, then it is up for grabs." This is a very informal, but interesting document regarding copyright, fair use and creative commons. 

simplified explanation of Creative Commons and breakdown of the six international licenses

I really like this website because it's the official Creative Commons website. This particular page was interesting because it is informative to actually see who uses CC and why it is helpful.

Creative Commons website

This site offers the most common ways to create contrast and a summary of why contrast is important.

has visual examples, bullet points

Explains the principles of contrast and list nine common ways contrast can be created.

Copyright, Fair Use, and Creative Commons: A Youtube video assessing the impact of fair use and its cultural impact -- specifically, the impact of art upon other artists and how referencing and sometimes even imitating other works of art has helped shape art and culture as a whole. The video shows various examples of artworks that have used each other as references and is a good way to understand the importance behind this.

Creative Commons This page reveals what Creative Commons is and provides support/examples of how digital, audio, written, etc. creations can be shared with the public and evolve them into something bigger.

CREATIVE COMMONS. This PDF tells, for those who are better absorbing information by reading it rather than seeing a cute video, more about what the creative commons is, who it's being done by, and how it can be applied to our lives.

middle ground of "some rights reserved" that respects intellectual property while expanding the acceptable uses of protected material.

proper text alignment on web pages. Also has common mistakes

This website explains you how to crop images and the common mistakes that people make.

"To better understand the topic of Copyright and Fair Use, and the special provisions that have been made for educational uses, I combed through a lot of materials that our professor had provided." This is a great source without extra bulk. 

This video showed some very common mistakes that are made by web designers.

This page gives 20 tips for proper netiquette that will remain useful for personal and business settings. Some of these include the common sense aspects such as starting an email with 'hello' and limiting or eliminating the use of all caps because that is viewed as yelling in internet terms.

Talks about shared culture and creative commons. 

Repetition in nature is a common sight, from schools of fish to forests of trees, patterns of leaves to spores on a mushroom.

Covers the incredible basic concept of repetition in depth.

Design basics for repetition

Educating parents about social media networks. I like this because I am a big fan of social media networking and social networks are apart of the digital writing.