Education Information Packs

This series of materials is designed to provide simple information for teachers and student on what CC is, how to find CC material and the best way to attribute CC material.

The fact sheets have been developed by the National Copyright Unit in conjunction with Creative Commons Australia and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. Other materials are developed by Creative Commons Australia and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, or as marked.

Fact Sheets

General Info

Finding CC Material for Particular Search Engines

Word Versions

You can download the word versions of all the above fact sheets here.

Worksheets

ReMixing One Minute with CC – This worksheet provides a basic lesson plan for teachers wanting to run a multimedia remix class utilising CC materials. Developed for the Apple University Consortium’s Create World Conference 2008.

Videos

Mayer and Bettle – animation focusing on the basics of what Creative Commons is and how it works.
Mayer and Bettle: the sequel – provides a bit more detail about using the CC licences for your own work.
CCau staffer Jessica Coates guest lecturing to students in QUT’s undergraduate Education course. The lecture is also available in smaller segments on Youtube here. You can find the associated slides here.
Otago Polytechnic’s video discussing their experience with Open Education

Comics

Sharing Creative: an illustrative primer – produced by Alex Roberts, Rebecca Rojer, & Jon Phillips
Bound by Law: Tales from the Public Domain – produced by Duke Centre for the Study of the Public Domain. Provides a good explanation of copyright and the public domain for older students.