CC Links

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace,  George Hanson in Easy Rider.

Image source: Flickr, Stained Glass, 2009.

The CC in the title stands for the two essential web 2.0 tools necessary to create ethical and innovative digital projects, Creative Commons licensing and Cloud Computing. First, you can avoid using copyright protected material on your website or for your digital course materials by selecting re-usable materials licensed under Creative Commons (CC). The following video, music, image, text, and general search websites will provide just this type of material. Second, I've included a number of  links to cloud computing tools and websites that offer advice, ideas and examples for designing digital projects.

Copyright Help

• Center for Social Media -provides good advice
• US Copyright Office -library of Congress explains copyright basics
  
• Creative Commons Commoners -discussion forum
• Crash Course Fair Use - online game Fair Use gaming
  
• Recut, Reframe, Recycle - the Center for Social Media explains remix
  
• Fair Use Analysis Tool U of Minnesota - online copyright checklist
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Canadian Copyright Laws and Guidelines

 

• Fairdealing
• Corncordia University Copyright Guidelines
• Copyright Comparison US versus Canada

General Searches

• Google Advanced Search - allows you to search according to usage rights and filter for material that is free to use

• Wikimedia Commons - Wikimedia projects CC files.
• Archive - using the "Wayback Machine" as a means for seeing old pages on the net, including a huge collection of free-to-use recordings and texts.
• Free Media Goo - free images, audio, texture and flash
• Search CC - searchable library of CC-licensed audio and video.
• Freebase -search engine to find CC licensed work
• Yahoo Creative Commons Search - CC Yahoo search
• Spin Xpress - video, audio, and images with various versions of the CC license

Images

• Image Links from Creative Commons - numerous links to CC databases of images
• Flickr Advanced Search - allows you to search for CC licensed images and videos
• NASA Image Archive  - many non-copyrighted government images related to space flight, astronomy, and aeronautics 
• US Government - public domain photos and images
  
• Open Clip Art- an archive of free-to-use clipart
• Photo Everywhere - offers stock images for everyone's use
• Every Stock Photo  - indexes CC images
  
• Yotophoto - indexes photos in the public domain and free-to-use license
• Deviant Art  - a site for artists to display their works with an option for CC

 

 

Audio

• Audio links from Creative Commons - links for CC audio resources
• CCMixter - CC licensed audio
• Jamendo -free albums for downloading
• Pod Show - CC licensed mp3s
• Pod Safe Audio - CC-licensed music for use in podcasts and video
• Sound Click -  free MP3s  
• The Free Sound Project -  CC licensed sound effects files
• Free Sound - a collaborative database of CC licensed sounds
• Artist Server-  download MP3s of smaller bands    

 

 

Videos

• Video links from Creative Commons - links for CC videos
• Blip.tv - allows video makers to assign multiple types of licenses to their content and users can search CC
• Lulu.TV -  CC licensed site with embeddable videos
• Open-Source Movies - Public Domain and CC-Licensed movies from the Internet Archive project
• Public Domain Flicks  -movies that have entered into the Public Domain
• Our Media  - a video service run by Archive, allowing users to host their videos under the CC license
• AV Geeks  -the A/V Geeks Film Archive is a film collection, featuring civil defense & public service films shot by the government in the 40's & 50's
• Revver  - an all CC video upload site similar to YouTube

 

Texts

• Text Links from Creative Commons- links for CC texts
• Project Gutenberg for Public Domain eBooks - useful for creating a narrative 
• Intra Text - a site featuring CC texts from 900 B.C.  
• Travelers Point - a wiki for travelers with a large collection of CC licensed material

Cloud Computing Tools

 

License and Release Forms

• Creative Commons License - apply for a CC license for your work 
• Talent Release -pdf form for printing and signing 

 

Widgets

• WidgetBox - has a number of free widgets and widget-making tools
  

Video Screencasting Tools and Hosting

• Jing - free software for making video tutorials or screencasts.
• Screencast - free hosting service for Jing screencasts
• Screentoaster- online video screencast maker
• Animoto- online tool for making videos

 

PDF Hosting and Word Clouds

• Scribd -pdf document free online hosting
• Wordle -creates text cloud banner and images

 

Online Image Tools & Hosting

• Flickr - online image hosting
• Resize It - free online image resize and cropping
• Picnik - online image editing

• Mashable - list of 12 best online image editors

 

Slide Shows & Presentations 

• Slide - slideshow hosting
• Prezi- online presentation cloud computing
• Slideshare - online host for PowerPoint presentations

 

Video Tools & Hosting

• Youtube - free video hosting
• Vimeo - video hosting
• Clipnabber - cloud tool for downloading video clips
• KeepVid - cloud tool for downloading video clips
• Media-Convert - cloud tool for converting video files
• Animoto - cloud tool for creating free 30-second video clips
  

 

Online Note Taking & Sharing

• Zoho Notebook -sophisticated online note application
• Notefish -online note taking application
• Luminotes  -a personal wiki notebook
• Evernote  -online note taking applications
• Delicious- social bookmarking

• Diigo -online bookmarking & sharing tool

Chart & Graph Builders

• Online Graphs and Charts- free online chart builder
• Online Charts Builder - free online chart builder
• Create Free Online Charts -free online chart builder

 

Cartoon Tools

• Hero Maker - free online comic hero maker
• Toondoo -comic strip creator
• Strip Creator - comic strip creator
• Super Lame - add speech balloons to your images
• Strip Generator -comic strip creator
  

 

Online Digital Document Tools & Hosting

• Google Docs -document sharing, discussion forum and hosting
• Wikispaces -document sharing, discussion forum and hosting
• Voice Thread - free document/video/image sharing discussion forum

 

Online Form, Survey and Schedule Generators and Hosting

• Survey Monkey- generates and hosts online surveys
• Poll Daddy- generates surveys and rating widgets
  
• Doodle- generates schedule surveys
• pForm- generates web forms/surveys
• EmailMeForm- generates numerous types of html forms
  

 

Movable Type CSS Help

• CSS StyleSheet MT4 Professional Black

• CSS Cheat Sheet

• CSS Tutorial
• W3C Cascading Style Sheets
• W3C CSS Validation Services
  

• Code for overriding multiple coding:

    { ...: ... !important; }

Website Design 

• Color Schemer -online tool for developing website color palettes
• The Hex Hub- more than 1000 html codes for color
• Color of My Sound- online gaming sound of colors
• Color Wheel - online tool for selecting colors
• Code Style- online source for selecting cross-platform fonts
• Web Source Basic HTML - basic tags for coding web pages
• HTML Code Tutorial - provides depth
• Embedded Media HTML Generator -  code generator for media
  

 

 

Project Ideas and Examples

• English 202C Sparky Awards Website -Sparky Awards project example
• Ohio State's Digital Story Telling  -project examples
• What is Digital Storytelling? -project advice
• Center for Digital Storytelling -what is digital storytelling