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"Evaluating creativity can be difficult: is one evaluating process or product? Achievement or effort? Evaluating creative effort can also be more time-consuming than other forms of assessment. Researchers have developed many specific tools for assessment. This page presents only an overview of the topic." This page is just one part of a section of their Website (Iowa State University - Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching) dealing with creativity in education.

"Copyright and Creative Commons Explained by Common Craft can be very useful in helping students understand why they cannot simply copy and paste whatever images they like that they find online."

"Flickr can be a good place to find Creative Commons licensed images to use in blog posts, slides, and other multimedia presentations. The Flickr CC Attribution Helper makes it easy to format proper attributions for the CC licensed images that you use. In the video below I demonstrate how to find images and how to use the Flickr CC Attribution Helper." Includes short video tutorial.

"Copyright and creative commons are particularly important in the educational context where content is often copied, shared, reused and remixed by both teachers and students in the learning and teaching process."

"These FAQs are designed to provide a better understanding of Creative Commons, our licenses, and our other legal and technical tools. They provide basic information, sometimes about fairly complex topics, and will often link to more detailed information."

The home of free learning from The Open University Creative Commons licensed materials that can be used freely.

"Our aim is to help transform institutional practices and assessment strategies through creative solutions for developing alternative and additional honours and capstone projects to meet the needs of students from different backgrounds, different subjects and different kinds of institution. "

"...an extensive set of materials for transformed courses in the sciences here at the University of Colorado at Boulder. All materials are available to the public on a creative commons license." Includes: 1. Course Materials Archive 2. "Framing" Materials for the First Day (and Beyond) 3. Clicker and Learning Goal Workshop Materials for Facilitator

While fair use is different (and in flux) in Canada, the rest of this tutorial contains useful information on using CreativeCommons and adding images to things like blog posts

"Many people assume that because the web is open, any and all content is open for copying and reuse. It is not. Use some content and you could well be breaking copyright law."

"The greatest software invented for human safety is the human brain. It's time that we start using those brains. We must mix head knowledge with action. In my classroom, I use two essential approaches in the digital citizenship curriculum that I teach: proactive knowledge and experiential knowledge."