http://www.ocwconsortium.org/share/toolkit.html has a BUNCH of really helpful stuff. they even have powerpoint presentations prepared for making the case to different levels of administration.
But one thing I haven't found yet is a concise document explaining fair use and creative commons to professors who use google image search to get images for their powerpoints. Beyond clearing lectures to be published online as part of OCW, freeing professors' lectures of copyright-infringing material (and squeezing in some free culture ideals as well) seems to be a good idea in general. these profs need something short and direct. "get your images from a flickr cc search or wikimedia commons. not google images. here are the links, and here (briefly) is why it matters. also, here is how to openly license and publish images of your own." so let's do this! http://wiki.freeculture.org/Copyright_Howto_For_Professors also, once we get something together, we should hand it back to OCWC so they can package it with their toolkit. In fact, we should be communicating with the OCWC if we're not already. I've been emailing Mike Caulfield of OCWC and so far he's really enthusiastic and helpful. he even offered to drive to campus and chat about the logistics of implementing OCW. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
