thing 8

CC vs C --- Wow! CC is evidence that we are all in this together! Things that appear to be our own, are not even really "our own" anymore! We share EVERYTHING! We learn from eachother.. and we borrow ideas to use as springboards to open our minds up to new thinking! I remember as a child trying to come up with an essay topic to write about... all my mind could do was remain BLANK! I work BEST when prompted by ideas found in things around me.. if I'm trying to be creative, I scroll through tons of someone else's ideas on the internet, in magazines, photos, etc... Something will grab me and I will tweek it and develope it into something that truly is my own.. I've never really thought of that as really plaegerizing. And NOW I know it is just "CC". I can utilize these ideas to enable me to create something unique. As students find resources for use in their projects, they would be encouraged to find CC projects. This freedom will cause students to become even more creative and resourceful in their projects. In personal teaching I can use whatever media is out there and change it up to apply it to whatever I'm teaching. This will catch the kids' attention and get them motivated to learn. I think the media is a GREAT resource for teaching. Potential negatives will be that someone may not be able to realize what the original form is. This would not pay tribute to that person's original creativity... which seems unfair. But I guess that person would be inclined to make their work C instead of CC so that would not happen. I will have to check out the C/CC for media as I surf the internet. I haven't noticed it yet.