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A nice collection of videos to help explain Creative Commons to educators and students.

Creativity being strangled by Law.

Slideshare presentation does a great job of explaining Creative Commons CC.

Wesley Fryer is the author of Moving at the Speed of Creativity.

activities to use to help with creative writing.

"School is a time in a students life where they are learning as much about how to be students and operate successfully in a school as they are about how to read, write, and think. But oftentimes, the demand for pure academic instruction and practice can fly in the face for a student's need-at any age-to play, build, interact, explore, and construct their own learning experience. Issues like these can make mobile technology like tablets a boon to learning, as they can allow individual access to the right app-and the right content, creative opportunity, game, or learning simulation-at the right time. It is the collision of the need for interaction, personalization, creativity, and constant feedback that can make video games powerful tools for learning-and the following 38 games, curated by Sam Gliksman-and excellent place to start."

Nice list of web 2.0 tools that provide opportunity for creativity and engagement.

Use this Creative Commons search engine to quickly find CC resources.

"NFC tags can be small stickers, which contain a small unpowered NFC chip. Depending on how the tag is programmed, it can change various settings, launch apps and perform certain actions just by holding your phone close to it. To do this, the tag takes a small amount of power from the smartphone and sends its stored information onto it."

Free pictures under Public Domain and Creative Commons for website & classroom usage.

Heinz Ketchup art contest.

Student created wiki providing creative web tools for a variety of classroom subjects.

Copyright & Fair Use regarding Creative Commons.