Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as CC licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. To learn more about…
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Apply a Creative Commons License to your Digital Learning Hub
This trimester students in our IT&DML program will begin building and refining their digital learning hub. As I detailed in a previous post, the digital learning hub is viewed as the teaching space, or the teacher website for each individual. The “hub” as it is affectionately referred to is a sister-site to the blog that…
Post, Promote, and Protect Your Content Online Using Creative Commons Licensing
TL;DR Version: Creative Commons (CC) licensing of content allows creators and users of online, digital content to share while protecting/acknowledging the rights of others. This blog post is a supplement to my earlier post on CC licensing and identifies basic ways to CC license your content. In my work I try to identify and disseminate…
Creative Commons Licensing of Open Educational Content
TL;DR version: Creative Commons (CC) licensing allows creators and users of online, digital content to share while protecting/acknowledging the rights of others. This blog post defines CC licensing, the need for it, and how to make it happen. What is Creative Commons? Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to…
Revolutionize Your Presentations with AI-Generative Tools
Please note, in this post, I’ll discuss my thoughts as I play with a Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool designed to make presentations (powerpoints). When I started playing with these tools weeks ago, this was fascinating but seemed limited at the time. With the impending launch of generative AI in Google Apps and Microsoft Office,…
Narrative for Tenure & Promotion
In order to promote open scholarship, I am sharing most of the materials from my packet for Tenure and Promotion. I am sharing these materials to provide guidance for colleagues and peers that are looking for guidance on these elements. I will share individual posts for pieces of the packet. This will conclude with one…
Ten Rules for Innovative Dissemination of Research
The Internet gives us opportunities to quickly share our work with a global audience. These new possibilities can help communicate our work with an audience that previously may have never considered your work in the past. This is especially important as the primary information source for many individuals is the Internet, especially social networking spaces. …
Become a Digitally Literate Educator
In 2016, I joined the One Side Project Challenge. The project brought together a number of creators from around the globe, created a private space for idea generation, and an online publication for us to share project updates. For my project, I wanted to identify/create a space where educators in Pre-K up through higher ed…
Use GitHub Pages & Jekyll to host a podcast
In much of my work, I strive to make my work accessible and approachable for others. This involves blogging about my work, and using these tools to inject a bit more transparency into the process as I work as an open scholar. This also includes podcasting when possible. The podcast provides an audio piece of…
Blogging as an Open Scholarship Practice
In most of my work, I strive for openness and transparency as an open researcher and educator. My purpose in this is to explore and play with possible new opportunities for scholarship in digital contexts. I’ve written in the past about how (and why) to become a digitally agile researcher. I’ve also written about how to…