Week 7 tutorial task

Research and provide short answers to the following questions. Provide references where applicable.

1. What is creative commons and how could this licensing framework be relevant to your own experience at university?



Creative commons is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting reasonable copyright. So basically, it allows people to share their work but still be able to claim it as their own.


This is relevant for any university student who may need to research something for an assignment. I often find something brilliant that just a normal person has said and may want to quote it in an assignment. Creative commons allows me to do this providing I properly reference to original author.


This also means that if I publish something on the internet, these blogs as a great example, others are able to utilize my information without me losing the credit for it.

2. Find 3 examples of works created by creative commons and embed them in your blog.
I found a really easy way to search for images that hold the cc license. You just hit advanced search on the yahoo page and click the box that says you only want to search cc licensed images.
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3. Find an academic article which discusses creative commons using a database or online journal. Provide a link to and a summary of the article.
There's no other summary I can give on this article apart from the fact that it discusses (in detail) creative commons. From what creative commons is to how to obtain a creative commons license. It's all there. Perhaps that explains why the article is called 'a review of creative commons'- by Mia Garlick.

http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume40/AReviewofCreativeCommonsandSci/158002

4. Have a look at Portable Apps (a pc based application) – provide a brief description of what it is and how you think this is useful. 

I typed portable app into google and came up with a great website which gave me these definitions:
Portable - moved with ease
App - a computer program like a web browser or word processor

A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug the device, none of your personal data is left behind. - http://portableapps.com/about/what_is_a_portable_app

So basically, how I see it, is if you save say a document to microsoft 2007 and connect your usb to a computer that has Microsoft 2003, you will be able to open your Microsoft 2007 document in its original form. Honestly, I don't see how this is such a great invention. On the website it talks about how great it would be to carry around your calendar on a usb or save your favourite websites to it and show all you buddies and you can even carry around all your msn friends so you don't have to re-add them when you go onto another computer... Um... That's what a laptop is for. I suppose it would be good for those who can't afford a laptop but seriously, why is it soooo important to carry around all your msn friends on a usb???? Whatever...

So that's it... See you next time.