Recall from Tuesday’s post that Creative Commons licensing allows creators to grant others permission to use their media freely. Media can be illustrations, photos, videos, sounds and more – all of which have many purposes within education.

It can be difficult to determine if a video, song, or "googled" image has been posted with permission. Therefore, start with the following Creative Commons portals instead:

• Wikimedia Commons – a collection of 45 million freely usable visual and audio media files to which anyone can contribute
• Flickr Commons – hidden treasures from the world's public photography archives
• ccMixter – music database that features sound effects and remixed music
• reveal.js – open software that challenges the Office suite paradigm is hard to find. 
• Vimeo and YouTube – use the search filter settings to limit results to only Creative Commons videos.

Want to learn more?
Visit Humber Libraries' copyright website, library.humber.ca/copyright, for links to more open media resources. 

Stay tuned for the conclusion to the Open Education Week series.