In the past six or seven years the web has evolved from a read only medium to a read, write, plublish and collaborative medium. What impact does this technology have on our lives? On our businesses? On our global society? What are the ethical questions that we must address?
Creative Commons, the brainchild of Laurence Lessig, is a non-profit organization dedicated to publishing others creative work and providing several copyright licenses, known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses, allow the authors the flexibility to restrict only certain rights, or none at all. You can find music, images, video and written works at http://www. creativecommons.org. Once you get to the site, click FIND cc Licensed Work at the top of the page. At the next page, choose your search engine to look for your perferred media.
This month’s issue of Time Magazine’s: Person of the Year, couldn’t have come at a more perfect time! I’ve begun a blog journey with my students in an effort to help them understand the power of Web 2.0 tools. This is full of interesting stories about “You.” You, the content creator. You, the citizen journalist. For some way to compare Time’s view of “Person of the Year,” go to their archive site where you can find every “person” that has graced the cover of Time from 1927 -2005. It’s rather interesting!
Our school’s orchestra director approached me last week to ask if I could assist her in showing a video to her class. Apparently, she had been sent the video from a friend of hers who knew that she had taken her students to perform at a nearby school for severely disabled children. The video is a tribute to Rick and Dick Hoyt, done by someone after viewing the television broadcast. The individual created this movie, set it to music, and posted it on YouTube. The orchestra class of about thirty middle school children assembled in my lab to watch it. It was an amazing experience for me. I looked out at these young faces, so focused, so touched and silent as they watched the video. When it was over, no one spoke.
Could anyone have ever imagined that an individual otherwise imprisoned by his physical limitations, could share his heart and soul with his father and together they could inspire so many?
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