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A toolkit for New Zealand school's Board of Trustees to advocate the use of Creative Commons Licensing of materials produced in schools.

edit   Why? What is Creative Commons, and why is it relevant to schools? The NZ Government's NZGOAL framework promotes the release of material held by State Services agencies (which included schools) under creative commons licences. It is widely recognised that re-use of this material may have significant creative and economic benefit for New Zealand. Paris Declaration Why is CC good for student learning? Why is CC good for teachers and schools? Who uses Creative Commons? (Other than The Open University, MIT, UC Berkeley etc. edit   How? Creative Commons Aotearoa NZ has a great four step process for adopting a CC policy in your school Talk to your board Talk to your teachers Talk to your students Talk to your parents Have a look at others' policies: Otago Polytechnic Intellectual property policy Otago Polytechnic IP wiki details page Audio Discussion of Otago Polytechnics IP Policy http://wikieducator.org/Warrington_School/Board_Of_Trustees/Creative_Commons_Policy http://wikieducator.org/Albany_Senior_High_School/Intellectual_property_policy

edit   Resources Example CC Policy for NZ schools OERNZ Information Sheet CC Kiwi Find Creative Commons content: http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/education/ http://wikieducator.org/WeCreate/Resources Learn more about CC: http://thepowerofopen.org/ Creative Commons NZ] WikiEducator Tutorial: What_is_free_content? http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses/NC Why not to use the NC restriction Desmond Tutu video on the importance of freedom Warrington School Creative Commons Policy edit   Case studies Albany Senior High School Warrington School Tawa Intermediate Wellington High School