One Voice Among Many

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.

 Get Creative!

What can I say? I just happen to love this video. I was looking for something catchy to include in my “Information Overload”  power point presentation last week and I came across this music video. It’s fun and I just can’t help being a kid at heart! Enjoy….

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!