Today my digital citizenship has expanded once again. This week we were tasked with creating a slide show to raise awareness to Copywriting laws and Creative Commons. The unique part of blogging about this is the fact that I had to embed my presentation into this blog post which allowed me to use other tools as well. The power point i have does not allow me to directly embed therefore i had to expand my digital environment and use an outside source to upload my presentation to in order to get an embedding code.This application, known as Scribd uploads the entire presentation, however does not keep track of the time for slides. Expanding my personal learning environment is a good way to improve my digital literacy all while keeping with my digital responsibilities. This presentation allowed us to explore the many aspects involved in creative commons, which essentially is the lock on certain digital pieces of information made public. Creative Commons are used for the creator to tell the general digital public to what extent their information is made available and how it can be reproduced.
Creative Commons is an online privacy barrier for publishers
to protect their content. Users who ignore these creative commons are ignoring digital
responsibilities and breaking copywriting laws that were created to protect information
shared by publishers. Without creative commons protecting peoples work it could
be reproduced and someone could take credit for someone else’s work. Creative
commons are an extremely important digital aspect especially for students who wish
to use information for their own research.
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