Thing #23

*Note: This project is loosely based upon the website 43Things (which allows you to set and track personal goals) and the Stephen Abram article titled 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006).

I am going to use Creative Commons for everything in my classroom. I will use it to find pictures to put in slideshows and decorate my classroom. I will use it to find videos to share with my students. I will make my students use it to find pictures for their projects.

Perhaps, one day, I will create content and upload it with a Creative Commons license so that others can use it. This way, I will be adding something useful to the community, so that others can benefit from it. I think that is the unique thing about the Creative Commons; it allows people to conceive of knowledge and art as the property of the community, not the individual. I find it refreshing to know that, in today's increasingly individualistic society, such a community does, in fact, exist.

What do you think? How will you use Creative Commons? Will you create your own content, and then choose to share it with the community, rather than keeping it to yourself? Do you think that art is the property of a person, or the property of the community?