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Speaker: OTAN. Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Diana Vera Alba: Hello. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today on this Wednesday afternoon. My name is Diana Vera Alba. And I will be presenting today on Using Creative Commons License and Creative Commons Licensed Works. Again, my name is Diana Vera Alba. I'm an OTAN Subject Matter Expert and an ESL and OER coordinator at San Diego College of Continuing Education.

Sorry, everyone. I'm going to stop sharing. I forgot to turn on my camera. And let me try that again. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here. My name is Diana Vera Alba, and I will be presenting on Using Creative Commons Licenses and Creative Commons Licensed Works.

I am an OTAN Subject Matter Expert here with Melinda, and I am also an ESL and OR coordinator at the San Diego College of Continuing Education. So thank you very much for being here. A little bit about myself. I've been an online instructor, teacher, and trainer since 2012. I taught in the modalities of distance education, Hybrid, now HyFlex and online ESL courses.

I've been a trainer, an online faculty mentor with my district as an OER and Cape coordinator, as well as a Canvas course design trainer, an accessibility trainer, and here with OTAN, as a subject matter expert. Some of my hobbies include gardening, photography, and I love animals. So I have dogs and chickens. And I have lots of both.

So before we get started with the presentation, I want to see how familiar you are with using open educational resources. So if you can please go to chat and type the number 1 if you are not familiar with OERs, type number 2 if you are somewhat familiar with OERs, and type number 3 if you are very familiar with OERs.

OK. All right. Hi, Steven. Thank you for being here. All right. So thank you for voting. And that just helps me pace the presentation for you. So great. All right. So this is our agenda for today. So we're going to take a deep dive into Creative Commons Licenses. So we're going to look at what we need to know about OERs. The 5 R's of OERs. We're going to look at the type of Creative Commons licenses used to identify OERs and their usage.

Then we're going to go into how to apply Creative Commons licenses. So we're going to take a look at the Creative Commons chooser, and we're going to have time to practice on that application, that online application. And then we're going to end with attributions, and we're going to look at the Washington Open Attribution Builder, and then you're going to get time to practice using that online application as well.

So let's get started. And we're going to look at the definition of open educational resources from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. So OERs are open educational resources that are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes.

Open education is the simple and powerful idea that the world's knowledge is the public good, and that technology, in general, and the web, in particular, provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse knowledge. And that really is my favorite part about OER. Is that we are able to share our knowledge, right?

All of us learned everything at some point, right? Different points in our lives. And it was shared with us. So it's really nice that those of us that embrace OERs are in that sharing community. And that we are willing to share with others, and then they in turn, will share with us. We can reuse their knowledge. They can reuse our knowledge. So that is one of my favorite things about OERs.

So OERs are open to educational resources that hold a specific license. And this license explains how the author wants to give us permission on the use of their materials and how the author wants to be given credit. So both of those appear on all the Creative Commons licenses. So some examples of what open educational resources could be, they could be a full textbook, they could be a single unit or chapter from that textbook, it could be a worksheet, it could be an interactive activity, it could be an audio file, an image file or video files, it can be a presentation like this presentation, is licensed Creative Commons.

Basically, almost anything that can assist you with teaching and learning can be an open educational resource. So in order for a resource to be considered a true OER, they have to contain these five permissions. And the five permissions include the right to revise a resource, the right to remix a resource, the right to reuse a resource, the right to redistribute or share a resource, and the right to retain a copy of that resource-- whether it's in your computer file or downloaded and printed.

So these are the 5 R's that should be part of an OER. We're going to take a look at a video called a shared culture. And in this video, you're going to get a broader sense of what open educational resources are. So it's a short 3-minute and 20-second video. So if you could just give me a thumbs up once I play it to make sure that you could hear it.

Speaker: What does it mean to be human if we don't have a shared culture? And what does a shared culture mean if you can't share it?

Speaker: It's only in the last 100 or 150 years or so that we've started tightly restricting how that culture gets used.

Speaker: The internet enabled an infrastructure where anybody could participate without asking permission.

Speaker: We have all these new technologies that allow people to express themselves, take control of their own creative impulses, but the law is getting in the way.

Speaker: Creative Commons is designed to save the world from failed sharing. People who actually want to share stuff. Who put it up on the web, because they want to share it under certain terms.

Speaker: So we wanted to create a simple way for creators to say to the world, here's the freedom that I want to run with my creative work. Here are the things you're allowed to do.

Speaker: Can I reproduce it? Can I copy it? Can I put it in my textbook? Can I use that photograph? Can I make a new version of it?

Speaker: Creative Commons gives tools to creators to make a choice about copyright.

Speaker: Creative Commons license can cover anything that copyright covers.

Speaker: Every license says, you need to give me attribution. I created this, give me credit for the work I did.

Speaker: The basic choices are, commercial use or not. Can you make derivative works, versions, adaptations, or not? And do you want me to have to Share Alike? So if I take your stuff, do I have to offer it to the next person under the same terms?

Speaker: There's no requirement for you to do anything with your work other than what you want to do. You own the copyright to. What we've done is giving you the right to exercise your copyright in more ways more simply.

Speaker: So the idea here is to enable the creative impulses that the technology turns loose and get the law out of the way.

Speaker: The work of Creative Commons is really about laying the infrastructure groundwork for this new type of culture. A new kind of folk culture.

Speaker: Somebody from Delhi, somebody from New York, somebody from Singapore--

Speaker: --can feel comfortable using a photo that was created and given away by someone in the United States or in China or wherever the licenses have been extended to.

Speaker: With their identity being preserved.

Speaker: Which means that people can actually create new kinds of things, come together and build things.

Speaker: Mashups that people can do with people's Flickr photos.

Speaker: And ccMixter has allowed artists to make music together.

Speaker: It's really about creativity and connection.

Speaker: Both access and control.

Speaker: From amateurs who simply, for the love of what they're doing and they want to share it and they want other people to be able to make use of it to commercial organizations.

Speaker: In the end, this will have a very successful place in for-profit economy.

Speaker: Creative Commons is this bridge to this future. Is you got to move away from thinking about content to thinking about communities. Communities that develop around content. And the sharing that the licenses allow enable these communities to come together.

Speaker: A physical Commons like a park where anybody can enter equally. A Commons with intellectual works is actually much freer.

Speaker: It really is going to be the pillar for communications between people, cultural exchange.

Speaker: The space for more speech, more free expression.

Speaker: And that's the kind of Commons we're trying to create.

Diana Vera Alba: All right. So hopefully, that gave you a little broader knowledge of what OERs can be. All right? So let's go ahead and continue.

Speaker: What does it mean to--

Diana Vera Alba: So we're going to take a deeper dive into those five permissions. The five permissions of OERs. And the first one is the right to revise. So this means that you have the right to adapt, adjust, modify, alter the content of the materials. So for example, you can translate or rewrite the content into another language.

So let's say, you find this awesome resource, but you're teaching Spanish and the resources in English. If you have these permissions, you are able to translate that resource into the language that you would like to use. The next permission is the right to remix. And that gives this gives you the right to combine the original or revised content with other materials to create something new.

So for example, you can take a unit from an openly licensed book and use sections of it, mix it with your own materials, and create a new unit. So with audio, you can incorporate the audio of one piece of music into your own piece of music and create a mashup. So I'm currently in a project at my district where we received a grant where we are revising a book. So we are actually using this permission. We're remixing the book with our own content and creating a new revised book.

So the third permission is reuse. And this gives the user the right to use the content in a right wide range of ways. So for example, you can use the resource in a class, in a study group, on a website, or in a video. So very important to have this permission. The next permission is the right to redistribute the resource.

So with this permission, you have the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others. So for example, you can give a copy of the new content to a student, you can post it on your website, you can post it in your LMS like Canvas. So this is what we plan to do with our revised book that we're currently working on. We want to redistribute it, we want to share it with others, we will likely upload it to one of the repositories or maybe more than one of the repositories where many of these resources exist so that we can share it out.

And the last R permission is retain. And this gives the user the right to make, own, and control copies of the content. So for example, you can download the copy, you can duplicate the copy, you can store the copy, and you can manage the copy. So for example, I did not create this Download icon, I retrieved it from the Noun Project, which is a great site that houses millions of icons.

I gave permission. I mean, I gave attribution to the owner of-- or creator of this icon. And I was able to download it and upload it to my slides. Any questions on the 5 R's? All right. And if you do have any questions, please make sure that you post it to the chat or raise your hand. OK. Thank you.

All right. So we're going to watch a video before we get into those Creative Commons licenses. I'm going to go over them. We're going to watch a video that is an overview of those licenses and what OERs are.

Speaker: Have you ever wondered how to download and share digital content legally? How do you let people know that you want them to reuse your own work? Creative Commons licenses can help you do both. We'll show you how. Our worlds exploded with digital opportunities. Now, we can communicate, share, and work together using the exceptional distribution Network that is the internet. Information and content can fly between us in exciting new ways.

But it's important to know that when something is created, say a photo or a document or a music track, it's automatically protected by copyright. Copyright enables people to say who can share and reuse their creations. You must always obtain someone's permission before sharing or reusing their work, even when it's posted online.

But what if a creator wants everyone to use their work without the hassle of granting permission over and over. This is where Creative Commons can help. Creative Commons provides licensing tools that are free to use. You can apply a license to your work, which refines your copyright, and streamlines how you give permission. Zac here downloads a photo called CC Kiwi that he wants to use in his science project. He can do this without asking Curry, the photographer first, because she's already given permission with a Creative Commons license.

Curry's license is legally robust, but easy for Zac to understand. She's told the world, including Zac, that they can use CC Kiwi as long as they acknowledge her as the original photographer. There are more rules Curry could have included. Creative Commons licenses are made up of license elements. You can think of them as rules. And each have their own special symbol.

This is attribution. It means that Zac must acknowledge Curry when he publishes his science project containing her photo. This is non-commercial. It means no one else but Curry is permitted to make money from CC Kiwi. Tim wants to print the photo onto T shirts and distribute them to friends. He can do this, but he must not sell them.

This is no derivatives. And it means that Curry hasn't given permission to change her photo. Kate can use CC Kiwi on her design blog, but will need to ask Curry before retouching or mixing up the image. And this is Share Alike. It means new creations that use CC Kiwi need to carry the same license. Jack incorporates his own remix of CC Kiwi in his video installation, but he must share the work under the same terms that Curry has. Each Creative Commons license gives permission to share and includes the attribution rule.

So people who find your Creative Commons license's work are automatically allowed to share it, but are required to acknowledge you if they do. The other three license elements are optional, and you can choose which ones to add, if any. Here are the six combinations that make up Creative Commons licenses. The difference between them is how many rules apply when someone wishes to use your work.

The attribution license allows reusers the most freedom and the attribution non-commercial no derivatives license allows the least freedom. The attribution license and the attribution share like licenses are, sometimes, referred to as free cultural works approved licenses. These three licenses restrict commercial use of a work.

And these two licenses do not give permission for adapting or remixing. These two licenses require new works to be licensed under the same terms. To choose and apply one of these licenses and to view their terms in more detail, visit us at CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG.NZ. Or you can answer some questions to help you decide which license best suits your needs at CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/CHOOSE.

There are some good ways to find other people's Creative Commons licensed work online. You can use a Search filter by going to the Creative Commons website. Well, why not try the Jamendo website for music, Flickr for images, or DigitalNZ for New Zealand content. Using Creative Commons licenses could help your creations reach more people. Maybe you want to connect with others across the globe and take turns that are improving a report. Or maybe you just want to have fun remixing someone else's work.

Whatever reason you have to share your work, you'll find there are scientists, educators, companies, and public agencies who are using Creative Commons. By opening up permission, just imagine how much we can achieve. Collaborating on what we hold in common, being open about big decisions, and finding solutions in the spaces between us. Let's work together, confidently and legally. It's good to share with Creative Commons.

Diana Vera Alba: All right. Oh, any questions about the licenses so far. I know he went very quickly, but I'm going to go over each of those six licenses with you now. We're going to take a look at the types of Creative Commons licenses. And again, I'm going to use the same colors. Green for the least restrictive and red for the most restrictive when I'm going through the licenses.

So the least restrictive license is Creative Commons by attribution and the most restrictive license is Creative Commons by attribution, non-commercial, no derivative works. So we're going to go over each of those. So the first one is Creative Commons by attribution. So we have the Creative Commons logo and we have the BY and the logo with the person. So this means Creative Commons by attribution.

Others can copy, distribute, display, perform, remix your work and give you credit as requested by you. So it contains the 5 R's. Someone can also use your work commercially. So that picture in the video, if that holds this license, then I can add that picture of the bird in my book and sell my book.

The next license is Creative Commons by attribution Share Alike. So that's represented by CC BY SA. This means that others can copy, distribute, display, perform and remix your work and give you credit as requested by you. So those are the 5 R's again. Others can distribute your work only under a license identical to the one you have chosen for your work.

So basically, it's saving the integrity of the original author's choice, right? The original author added this license to the work, your revised remix work also has to hold this license. And someone can use it commercially. So again, someone can add it to their book, add it to their-- if it's a video file, add it to their CD that they're selling, and they can sell it legally.

Next license is Creative Commons by attribution non-commercial. And that is represented by the CC, The BY logo, and the NC logo. The circle with a dollar sign and a slash through it. So this means others can copy, distribute, display, perform, and remix your work and give you credit as requested by you. So again, the 5 R's. Others cannot use your work for commercial purposes.

So here, if I add this to my PowerPoint, for example, others can use my PowerPoint, they can change it, but they cannot make money off of it. So they cannot sell my PowerPoint. All right. So we're going to go to the right column of those licenses. And this is Creative Commons by attribution, non-commercial, and Share Alike. That's represented by the CC, the BY with a person, the NC-- non-commercial, and the SA, Share Alike.

So this means, others can copy, distribute, display, perform, and remix your work and give you credit as requested by you. So again, the 5 R's are included here. Others can distribute your work only under a license identical to the one you have chosen for your work. So there's that Share Alike. And others cannot use your work for commercial purposes. So they have to use the same license, share it with others under the same license, and they cannot make a profit off of your original work.

Or revisions of your work. All right. So we're going to go into the last two, which are the most restrictive. And the first one is-- or the fourth one is Creative Commons by attribution and no derivative works. So this is represented by the CC again, the BY an ND, which is the equal sign has to remain the same.

So no derivative works. No changes. So this means that others must give you credit as requested by you. Others can only copy, distribute, display, or perform verbatim copies of your work. So here's where the 5 R's are not included. So revise is not included, because I have to keep that original work the same.

I cannot remix it with my own work. I can use it, I can distribute it, I can use it in my class and share it with my students, but I cannot make any changes on that work. So that's the ND, No Derivative Works. And others can use your work for commercial purposes. So going back to that picture that we saw in the video, others can print a picture on a T shirt and make money off of it, but they cannot change any part of that image.

All right. And the last Creative Commons license is CC-BY-NC-ND. And this means Creative Commons by Attribution, Non-Commercial, and No Derivative Works. So this is the most restrictive license. Others must give you credit is requested by you. Others can only copy, distribute, display, or perform verbatim copies of your work. So five hours are missing, right? No changes, no revisions, no remixes.

And others can you cannot use your work for commercial purposes. So they can use your work as is as long as you're not making a profit off of it, and as long as you're not making any changes to the original work. And as always, give credit to the author. Any questions? So why and how to attribute OERs.

So how do we apply the Creative Commons licenses? So we're going to take a look at a really great tool called the Creative Commons Chooser. I'm going to show you the beta form right now, because this is what it's changing to. So let's go ahead and take a look at it. I'm going to show it to you first, and then I'm going to give you an opportunity to use the License Chooser.

So this is a great tool when you're still not sure which license you want to apply to your work. So it gives you a series of yes and no questions. And as you choose yes or no and click on Next, it will take you to the next question. So the first question is, do you know which license you need? If you say yes, I know which license I want to use, then you're done. You just go to the Creative Commons licenses that are linked out here, and you copy the license, paste it to your work, and you're done.

But let's assume we're not sure of which license we want to use. So no, I need help selecting a license. So I'm going to choose No and then click Next. Takes me to the next question. Do you want attribution for your work? That means, do you want to receive credit? If you say yes, it starts building your license here to the right, OK?

So we're at the least restrictive now, which is CC BY. If you say no, no, you don't have to give me credit. You could just take my work and do what you want with it. There is a license called CC0 or CCO. And this means public domain. So by marking your work with a CCO public domain dedication, the creator is giving up their copyright, and allowing reusers to redistribute or to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format even for commercial purposes.

So by adding this CCO license to your work, most importantly is that you are giving up your copyright. Because remember, as they mentioned in the video, the Creative Commons licenses, you're still retaining your copyright. But with public domain, you are giving up your copyright. And that is your right to do so.

All right. So if that's the license you want, you can just choose this license. You can click on see the deed. So I'm going to click there. This is what the deed looks like. And this is the link. You can just grab it from here. That's the link that you can add to your work. You can also add the logo, the CCO logo. This one here to your work, OK?

Let's go back to the chooser. OK? So I'm going to say, yes, I still want to receive credit from my work. All right. So I do have a question. What are the consequences of not following a CC license? So do you mean the consequences for a user or for the author? Michael.

Michael Delaney: Basically for a user.

Diana Vera Alba: For the user. So if you are not following the license, then you're violating a copyright law. So it's just like anything else, right? Any of us can download something from the internet. We have to be really, really careful with that, because if we get caught, you'll likely receive a cease and desist letter from whoever that creator is, especially, if it's something like Nike or a large corporation that retains and is very serious about their copyright. But basically, you're violating copyright law.

Michael Delaney: I realize that maybe this is the wrong time to ask this. But maybe one quick follow up. If a teacher puts it into a Canvas within their district, would it be the teacher or the school?

Diana Vera Alba: Both. So both. So that teacher is violating copyright law, downloading it to their Canvas, and basically, putting both themselves and the district in a little bit of hot water if they get caught, right? And we understand this happens, right? It's happened in the past, it'll probably continue happening in the future, and what we could do is just educate. Educate our faculty, educate everyone that is involved, right?

So at my district, for example, I'm the OER coordinator, and that's what I do. I create a lot of open office hours for our faculty, a lot of professional development like I'm offering here just so that we could avoid that, because many times, teachers don't realize that they are violating copyright law. They like to fall back on fair use, but fair use is very, very limited. And I will have another presentation on copyright and fair use.

So if you're interested in that topic, make sure you sign up for that as well. But I'll be happy to answer questions here as well as they come up. All right. Any other questions? OK. All right. So let's go back to this question. Do you want attribution for your work? I'm going to say, yes, I want to receive the proper attribution. So I'm going to click on Next. And it takes me to the third question. Do you want to allow others to use your work commercially? So if I'm giving somebody my work, do I them-- do I want to give them permission to make a profit off of it?

If I say yes my license did not change. It still CC BY. If I say no, it adds that dollar sign with the circle and a through it. Others cannot use my work commercially. So I'm going to continue. And the next question, do you want to allow others to remix, adapt build upon your work? So basically, do you want to give the downstream users the right to make any changes?

If I say, yes, my license did not change, it stays the same. If I say no, I don't want anyone to make any changes or adaptations to my work, then it adds the no derivatives symbol. The equal sign with the circle around it. So it's building as I'm choosing. So I'm going to say, yes, I want to give others the right to remix and make changes.

And so it removed that equal sign with the circle around it. So I'm going to choose Next. And then number 5, do you want to allow others to share adaptations of your work under any terms? If I say yes, didn't change the license one bit, if I say no, then it added the share alike. Meaning, I want others to use the revised or remixed work under the same license that I allowed.

So I'm going to choose Next. And this part is very important. So now my license is built. As you see here to the right, I have the CC BY Non-Commercial-- NC, SA-- Share Alike. It also has the definition here for me. In addition to that, I have a copy of the deed here. So once I answer these questions, it's actually going to create the link for me to add to my work.

These are really, really important statements. So the first one is, I own or have authority to license the work. So either it's my own original work or it's work that gave me that permission to revise, reuse, or remix. So I'm going to say, yes. The next one, I have read and understand the terms of the license. That's why you get a copy of the deed here.

So if you want to take a look at it a little bit closer, click on the link to the deed, read about the deed, and exactly what that means to add that license to your work. And if you're in agreement with that, then you're going to choose the next box. And then the last box, I understand that the Creative Commons license is not revocable. OK? Really important.

Once I choose the license, I cannot change it. Take it back. Once I choose the license and share it, I cannot take it back. So before I share it, I could say, well, you know what? I decided I'm going to allow commercial work. That's fine, I have not shared my licensed resource yet. So I can continue changing it until I share it once I share it. Out to anyone, whether it's my students or share it with another colleague or add it to-- if I have an image and I upload it to Pixabay and I add my license, once I share it, I cannot change the license. It's not revocable.

So once I agree to the three terms, I choose Next. And now, it created my link that I can add to my work. So I can choose Copy, if I want the link with the symbols or the abbreviated symbols and the abbreviation of the terms or I can choose full license, and now it's spelled out for me instead of having the abbreviation.

Either way, I can copy it. If it's on my slides, I can copy it and add this to my slide. It's already on my copy board. I can also get an HTML code, if I want to add it to Canvas or a website that requires a HTML code. It also gives me the XMP for metadata. I've never used this one before. I typically use the text because I'm adding it to a page or a document or my presentation. OK?

And any questions about that? Oh, I forgot something really important. The attribution details. OK. So let's say it's that picture of the bird in the video. So I'm just going to title my work, Bird. I'm going to add my name as the creator. So this is if it's my original work. If it's not my original work, I'm going to add the creator's name here.

Unless it's a remix. If it's a remix, then I can add my work because I'm the new author of that remix. If I have a link to that work, I can add it here, if it's not posted on my website or something like that, I don't have to. I can also link to a creator profile. For example, people like to upload images to Unsplash or Pixabay. If I have a profile with them, I can add that link here.

And then the year that the creation was created. So as you notice, as I was adding the attribution details, it was also adding that to my license. So the title of the work. There's that copyright symbol, right? Because Creative Commons, you're still holding the copyright. You still are the copyright holder of your original work. It's just copyright with permissions.

The date the work was created, my name is the author, and there's my Creative Commons license. So now it's complete. I can choose Done. It shook it, so remind me to take a copy of that and then add that to my slides or my work. OK? Any questions.

Michael Delaney: I Quick question. So does this establish your copyright? The CC, or is there another way that you establish copyright, or is copyright just assumed, or--

Diana Vera Alba: The copyright established the moment you create anything. You no longer have to hire an attorney or something like that for our purposes, for educational purposes. Now, if I had a patent on something, then yeah. I'd have an attorney, I'd want something a little bit more legal. But for our educational purposes, you don't have to hire an attorney. The Creative Commons licenses helps you retain and actually protect your copyright, right?

But copyright is now established as of like 2008 or something, I believe. I have to look back at my notes. But copyright is established the moment you create something.

Michael Delaney: Does that include works of art?

Diana Vera Alba: Yes.

Michael Delaney: Like a painting?

Diana Vera Alba: Yes.

Michael Delaney: Oh, wow.

Diana Vera Alba: Yes. Now, if I were doing something like that, I'd probably take pictures, put it somewhere, email it to myself. There's all kinds of things you can do to have your proof before you add the license. But yes, the moment you create something, even if it's just a doodle on a napkin, the moment you create something that is your original work, it is automatically copyrighted.

Michael Delaney: Well, thank you.

Diana Vera Alba: Now, I'm not an attorney. I forgot to say that. I'm not an attorney, but I have taken many classes from attorneys on this exact topic. So I have a little bit of experience. I'm also Creative Commons license. I forgot to mention that in my bio. But I am Creative Commons licensed. And that means that-- oh, certified. Not licensed. Certified. And that means that I have taken classes on this topic as well. Michael, you had a question.

Michael Delaney: Yeah. I mean, I was just curious, which ones you recommend. I mean, I see no commercial use is pretty clear. But Share Alike seems to be pretty restrictive. Is that--

Diana Vera Alba: It is. It is. And it really depends on the creator. I like using CC-BY-NC. You typically-- let me see. What did I add to my slides here? I changed my mind all the time. But let's see. I added-- oh, CC-BY-NC-SA. Oh, OK. Because since this is a presentation and I'm sharing it with you, if you create another presentation based on my slides, which I'm going to share with you at the end, I want you to also share with others. So I want to continue that sharing of my slides or your derivative works of my slides.

So sometimes, I'll include the essay and sometimes I won't. It just depends. But once you become familiar with the licenses, you'll get a feel for when you feel like it's appropriate to use one over the other. Does that make sense?

Michael Delaney: OK. And maybe you'll get into this later, but just for example, say, we were going to use your slide presentation. You already have the little cc logo in there with everything. So we don't really have to do anything, because you've already put it there or do would to--

Diana Vera Alba: You would Have to use my same logo, right? So you could just leave it there, you could change your name, let's say you add one more slide or delete slides or add something to one of my slides. Whatever change you make, you can make that change, add your name here. But you're going to have to give me credit somehow for my original work. OK?

So maybe the next slide. The original was created by Diana Vera Alba, blah, blah, blah. 2003. Whatever you want to put on there. But yes. So that's the beauty of Creative Commons. Now, I will tell you, my slides, and I think I have-- I don't know. 40 something in here, 50. OK. So do you all know Penny Pearson? She was my OER guru when I first started years and years ago with OERs.

And I think I went to every single presentation that I could that Penny presented on OERs, because she was just spectacular presenter. And so some of my slides on here are similar, because that's what I learned from her. But if there's a slide on here that's copied, I would give Penny that credit.

So yeah. It's kind of like-- I mean, I see it like when you're in college and you're learning, I mean, someone created that knowledge-- whether it was that professor or that professor got it from another book. I mean, it's that same sharing, right? Of that knowledge. But this time, it's free, right? I'm not at a university, having to pay tuition, and things like that. So yep. Any other questions? All right.

So we're going to talk about attributions. And for the purposes of this attribution-- I'm going to show you an attribution builder that you can use for your own work, as well as the work of others. So the site that I just showed you, the Creative Commons license builder, that is really should be used for your own work, but-- oops. Let me go back. This Washington State attribution builder, you can use for your own work or revised work and the work of others.

So attributions are an important part of OER in defining how you can legally borrow someone else's work or identifying the permission level or licensing you give others to use your own work. So equally important is the ability to understand the various levels of permissions identified by the author of the OER-- whether it be course materials, modules, open textbooks, openly-licensed videos, software tools, full courses, or any other materials that are deemed to support access to learning.

So for example, here's a picture that I did not create. I downloaded it from Pixabay. And Pixabay has these pre-made attributions. So I used their pre-made attribution. I just copy and pasted it and add it. But I could have also used an attribution builder. So now that you can identify the six licenses and their permitted use, we can look at how to correctly add attributions to your work and the work of others.

So we've looked at several OER sites that house ready-made materials, textbooks, and images. Once you find OER materials you would like to use, there's a final important step to correctly attribute the work you will use from others or license your own work or a combination of both, if they're remixed. There is an easy-to-use open resource that contains a fillable attribution template from the Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges. It's called the open attribution builder.

And this allows educators to build an attribution to correctly give credit to others or your own work. So that is what I used here. And the nice thing about the attribution builder, just like we saw in the Creative Commons license creator, is it starts building as you're adding to the template. There's a video here on how to use the attribution builder. This is a video that I created for our faculty.

And our district does have a channel on YouTube. So if you watch the video, at the end of the video, you can click on the channel, because there are lots of professionally-made videos that our district has created and has shared on YouTube. So I'm not going to go through the video, because I'm going to show you step by step what's in there already. I'll show you here in the presentation. But video is there for you to use.

So why and how to attribute the OERs? So some open resources provide a ready made attribution, like I mentioned, Pixabay has a ready made attribution once you download an image from Pixabay. So these attributions, typically, appear near the image or when downloading the resource from the website.

For resources that do not provide a ready made attribution, the open attribution builders an excellent user-friendly option. When you are building that attribution, you want to keep this acronym in mind, TASL. So to build that attribution, you're going to need the title of the resource. If you don't know the title of the resource or it's not obvious, you can use the word image like Pixabay creates if that's what you're downloading or using. Or book or news article or whatever it is that you're downloading or you're attributing.

The author. So who created the resource. The source, where did you find the resource. So typically, we're searching online, right? So it will be very easy to copy the link. And then the license for that resource. The license that the author wants to use. Or you, if you're the author.

So here are some steps to creating that attribution. So what I did is I went to Pixabay, and I found a copyright-free image of a butterfly. So my first step is I found this image that I wanted to use for a presentation. And when I was on the Pixabay site, I remembered to copy the URL. So once you find the image or resource, take note of the image URL or the resource URL.

You can also title the image. So in this case, I was searching, if you see here in the search section, I was searching for monarch butterfly. And this is the image or many images came up. But this is the image that I chose. So I could use monarch butterfly as the title. Or I could just use the word "image."

So there is my search, right? Where I used that title. And then on Pixabay, the author's name appears on the far right. So in this case, it's bee B. Barlow is the author. And it's easy on Pixabay, because if this was a live site, I could click on the person's name, and it would take me to their Pixabay site or their Pixabay account where they have other images.

So if you want to make sure that is the author, if you're using Pixabay or Unsplash, they use the similar format. And then the type of attribution license. So for the purposes of Pixabay, Pixabay uses free for commercial use, they say no attribution required. So I would not add that dollar sign with a line through it for this license.

But even though it says no attribution required, I still add an attribution for two reasons. First, is for selfish reason, for me. Because sometimes I reuse images, I do a lot of presentations. And there's images that I like. Or there's authors that I like their images. So if I add the attribution, I can go back to my slides, if I don't remember where I retrieved it from, because I do use multiple sites.

I can go back to my original picture or slides and click on the attribution, and it takes me to the picture. So that's one reason, right? Has the history of where I retrieved it from. And then secondly, is if I'm going to share my slides with others, I want to give them the right to follow this author or retrieve more works from the author. Yeah. So even though it says no attribution required, I still like to attribute.

So this is what the open attribution builder looks like. So I'm going to go through this in the slides with you, and then I'm going to give you an opportunity to practice on your own. So you see that there's a section here where I'm going to add the title, there's two sections where I add the URL. So I could add the URL where I found the picture here. And I can add it here. Or if I want to go a little deeper on Pixabay, you can also choose the author's URL where they house all the rest of their work.

I don't do that because then it gets really confusing. So I just add the URL where I retrieved that particular image. So I add it here, and I add it here. I add the author's name, however, it appears on Pixabay or Unsplash. And then I choose the license. Under Pixabay, you cannot add non-commercial, right?

So it cannot be a non-commercial license. So I'll typically choose CC-BY, OK? But you can go to the author's site to see if they specify a particular license. So again, I'm going to add the title there for my image. It was Monarch Butterfly. I added the URL in the two sections where it says your, URL. I added the author's name, and then I chose the license, CC-BY. OK?

So as I was adding-- let me go back. As I was adding the items, the tassel items, it was building the attribution in this section here. So there was the title. It added the URL. So basically, it added the URL as a link. It added the author's name. So it was building. It added the license, so I don't have to go back to CC-- the Creative Commons website.