Broadly speaking there are four (non-commercial) reasons I can think of to publish something online. It is about sharing, storing, tooling and availability. There are also some issues that make people hesitate to publish online and these issues should not be ignored as non-relevant.
Continue Reading April 17th, 2007
To give everybody the opportunity to Show that you Share, Bazaar has created a set of seven pins depicting the Creative Commons pictograms, the Bazaar logo and the Sounds of the Bazaar podcast logo.
No need to tell you all that these are collectors items!
The pins are rapidly becoming mighty populair throughout Europe; read this testimony by Dutch edublogger Pierre Gorissen: http://www.gorissen.info/Pierre/item/2007/3/29/the-bazaar
If you think you too need a set of pins, please let us now why…
April 15th, 2007
With the success of Wikipedia, Open Content has become a popular concept for publishing any kind of creative work like texts or images and allowing to copy and to modify them by anyone. The Bazaar team offers a workshop about Open Content and IPR-handling at the EduMedia conference in Salzburg, Austria, the 16th April of 2007. In this workshop we try to explore the new opportunities offered by Open Content in combination with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for blended and distance learning.
In the first part, we talk about Open Content and which ideas are behind this concept, about the manifests and political implications of Open Content, and also about the tension between Open Access and Intellectual Property Rights. The variety of popular Open Content licenses like Creative Commons and GNU-FDL will be presented. We will show how to use these licences for content created by participants and what has to be taken into account when using Open Content of others.
During the second part, we talk about how authors could use Open Content for their work. Therefore valuable tools and resources for finding and sharing contents (like articles, pictures, audio files etc.) will be presented. And we will analyse and discuss practices for re-using Open Content. Special emphasis will be put on didactical and organisational aspects of the re-use of Open Content.
Finally, in the hands-on-tutorial, we will attempt to build a multimedia-enhanced learning module using Open Content found on the Internet. This will give participants the opportunity to use the different tools and to identify the appropriate presented licences for their content production. For the tutorial we will use OpenOffice as content editor and export these OO-documents to the Open-Source-LMS ILIAS by using the OO-extension eLAIX.
More information about the workshop and the EduMedia conference can be found at the EduMedia web site: http://edumedia.salzburgresearch.at/
April 12th, 2007
