555 Week 3- Creative Commons

We've discussed Creative Commons in a few other classes, and I think I've actually written on this exact topic before, but I still have what I think is kind of a neat activity for using Creative Commons in the classroom. After some simple lessons on Creative Commons and the different types of licenses, I think it would be neat to have students publish some of their work online and choose the exact type of license they want to apply to it. I think it would get them to reflect on Creative Commons, as well as how they think content should be shared. It would at least be something to reference next time we talk about plagiarism, which is often.

555 Week 1- The Portfolio Begins

Reflecting on something large is always difficult.  I've mentioned in this blog, probably too many times, that I can barely remember how I ran my classroom without some of the tools I've learned from this program. So as I sat down to start putting together my portfolio, it was tough to pick artifacts to fit those standards. I couldn't remember "Oh yeah, it was in 515 that we talked about that," or "It was 520 where we did this activity." So when I sat down to start matching activities to ideas, I realized what I've done didn't necessarily match what we've discussed.

The clearest example for me was trying to find an artifact to demonstrate instruction of digital citizenship. It's a concept we've talked about plenty among a number of different courses, but I couldn't find an activity that I had completed that directly addressed that issue. It made me think that this could easily be an issue with a rubric used to assess any project where students are given much freedom- they may not take it in the direction you had planned.  Thus, if you want to use a rubric, you had better be sure the students see it and understand it before you begin, or make sure that they understand which tasks have to be completed.

Note: I'm not saying anything was lacking from this course- it just got me thinking.