 OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Welcome everybody online. I've got a few in here. I'm going to turn around so I don't have my bag for the out camera. Nice portable system here. So everybody's here for creative comments and OERs and all that stuff. Are we in the right spot? Okay, that's an arousing responsibility. How are we doing? If I get any thumbs up from my audience. Okay. Not yet. All right. We're getting started here. So first. Welcome. Hang out. You're going to go. I need to go. Okay. Thank you. Get that up there. Okay. Most of you may or not may know me, but my name is Kenny Pearson. And I am a subject matter expert for OTAN. I used to be working with OTAN for many, many years. You can hear more about that for a minute. But I don't know how well you can see this on the screen here locally, but you and the audience should be able to see this. When you hear the word copyright. Do either of these two images resonate with you? Nothing happened. I was a classroom teacher for 12 years. And you may or may not have seen this happen. But did you ever walk into the teacher lounge room where the competition was and there was somebody there with the textbook meeting covers all the time? Yeah. Did it break your heart a little bit or was like, oh, that's okay. No problem. You know, I saw that a lot and I had gone to my administrator and I was like, well, wait a second, you know, I saw it right. These are copyrighted materials. And, you know, at that time it was a huge budget crunch and we didn't have money to buy a new textbook. So that's what happened. That was in the past. So now I really want to talk about, we're using different options for getting, I'll say around copyright, but it's basically a decision of teacher and administrator of how well going to police ourselves for copyright. And I'm one of those people that was always kind of going around going, wait, wait, there are alternatives. And that's basically what I hope to talk about today. Just a little bit of history about me. I was formerly the coordinator for distance learning projects at OTAN and I just recently retired in July. And they brought me back. I don't know why. So I was always involved in distance learning. That's how I got my high school equivalency when I was 16 years old. I finished four years of high school in about a year. And I was living in a very remote area in Alaska. And I found that, you know, see how it all works. You can, you know, you can learn any number of ways. And so I've always had a passion for that. And I don't know really how I fell into teaching, but it enabled me to teach for about 12 years in the classroom and working with technology and helping students gain digital skills and get certification like in office products like Microsoft office or learning digital photography. I did a lot of things like that in my 12 years there in the classroom. And then was able to carry that over into OTAN where, you know, for the past 15 years worked in various different capacities basically focusing on distance and blended learning. But as part of that process, I recognized as many of you may that sometimes it's really hard to find materials. And in our digital lives these days, it's very easy to find something that's protected by copyright. And you don't know it. And you put it up on your class website or on your school, you know, district website. And all of a sudden you've got to notice the cease and desist because you used a copyrighted image. I have friends that are here with me today. That have experienced that. So I really got involved with this organization called Creative Commons. Have you guys heard of it? Has anybody in the audience in my online audience, give me a thumbs up. If you've heard about Creative Commons. I should see that float, right? Should come up here somewhere on the screen. Oh, I think I saw something go by here. Let me see if I can. Move this. Wait, this button maybe. I'm going to put this down. I'm going to put this down here. Trying to get out of the stuff out of the way here. So what does my chat folks say? No, haven't heard of it. Okay. Joyce will hopefully get you started. So when I learned about Creative Commons. And I thought, and I had to dive into copyright. I don't know if anybody's ever had to try to do that. My favorite saying is I am and I are kind of cohorts on this. And I was like, I worked with a copyright attorney and I was like, look, I just want a really simple primer for my teachers of learning about copyright and make it simplified. And he basically came back. You cannot use the word copyright and simplified in the same sentence. I thought, okay, then that set me off. So not that I'm going to talk a lot about copyright other than, yeah, if you have questions, I had, I had to dive into the deep dive into the history of it. And it's actually amazing what happened with this, but Creative Commons stepped in because they've recognized that problem of you cannot use simple and copyright in the same terms. And they went to the US copyright office and said, this is crazy. What can we do? And they basically said, I don't know, think of something. And so Creative Commons and that team way back in 2021, 2010, sorry, get my, my dates wrong here. They said about to create this system. And I went through their certification program because I really wanted to understand more about how this worked, how Creative Commons work, how copyright work, how fair use work, how all of these things that impact us as instructors, and therefore how we need to instill that into our students, because a lot of what I was seeing was as this digital ramp was going up, many of our students were not learning about copyright and they were exposing themselves to some pretty serious problems potentially. I mean, you know, people, some people are highly risk adverse and they won't do anything, you know, that'll be potentially labeled as wrong. Whereas other people like myself, I'm a little more okay with, you know, risk. I might say no, I'm not going to pay my taxes until June. So there, right? But other people don't do that. And so I wanted to find a way to have game more knowledge. And so through this or through this class that I took, I really learned a lot. And one of the most important things I learned was that statement at the bottom. I am not a lawyer. I do not give legal advice. Okay. Because every situation is different. But I hope to be able to send people on the kind of the right path of what they can look for, look at and reflect on on their own work. Because that's where this all really hits the road is the work that you do. Right? I know Diana, you've been working on this for a while. She's one of my OER groupies. I love. And so I just want you to know that I've done. You know, it's like, it's like the iceberg, right? I feel like I have about this much of the iceberg and the different ways that you do that. And so I just want to show you a little bit of a tutorial on this that's all down here because there's so much to learn. So I want to teach and help you to learn, but also understand that there's lots of resources out there. Okay, go forward. Now that I moved that I probably can't move my slide go. Okay. If you want to copy of this. Presentation. I don't know if my guys locally here can get this because it'll work. You guys that are online with us. Give me a shout out in the chat. Does that work? I don't know. Let me see if I can move this. That should give you a better shot at the QR code. You got it? Did it open up? Yep. So you are welcome to use this presentation. I licensed it in such a way, which you will learn about later, that you are allowed to do that without repercussion. Because we don't want anybody feeling like they can't do something here. So my online guys, were you able to get it? Give me a shout out or something? Got it? Joyce got it? Thank you, Joyce. How about my other folks? Francisco, were you able to open it up? You can just let me know. And if you didn't, okay, great. Thank you. So we're really going to look at some basic things here. And this first item here, it says something good this way comes. I have to ask you guys, what areas do you teach in? Program areas. I was an ESL teacher. ESL? Okay. I've done it. I'm an ESL and now I'm a structural technology. Okay. Cool. I know. You're everything. So I'm going to talk a little bit about a project that OTAN worked on, that I was highly involved in. And I just want you to be aware of it. And as ESL teachers or anybody who teaches ESL civics, you might find that very useful. We'll look at defining who we are. We're looking at licensing and copyright and creative comments and what all that stuff is. And then we're going to give a chance to kind of what we call join the movement. And this is a promotional video from Creative Commons. But then we're going to spend some time practicing. So is that us? We can close this. No, that was our previous presentation. Okay. Good. All right. And then we're going to, this says discussion on here, but since we have 90 minutes, I'm hoping that both my online audience and my in-class audience here, we can spend a little time kind of experimenting with both looking for and finding materials, and then also licensing your own work. So hopefully that fits with your expectations, what we're doing today. Okay. So this is something good. If you haven't seen it yet, OTAN partnered with CASES, which is California's Assessment Testing Service, to create the co-app exchange. And this is where we are asking our wonderful adult education EL civics teachers to create these co-apps and put them on our site online and make them available to everyone in California. Now there are a couple of caveats here in that the materials that are supplied that have to, they have to be licensed under Creative Commons. And the reason why is, is that we need to make sure that the materials that you put into that co-app are indeed either Creative Commons licensed or public domain. We'll talk about that more later. And here's the other caveat. They have to be fully acceptable. So that means making sure you have alt text on all of your images in your file that you use styles so that these screen readers can navigate through your documents quickly. And there's lots of resources on the site, but this is something that, believe it or not, we've been working on this for the last 15 years trying to get this put together and working with COSIS and working with the COSIS specialist and working with OTAN and the programmers at OTAN to build this site for the co-app exchange. If anybody has been participating at all with the Teaching with Technology courses and or materials that are offered through OTAN, that's what we started. If you look at the Teaching with Technology site on OTAN, the co-app system looks very similar. So I don't know if you've seen it or not. Have you seen it? No? No? Okay. We might be able to remind me, we'll go and look at that on the OTAN site. So and the reason why that this is important is that in the state of California, with the EL Civics, everybody was recreating the wheel for the same co-app topic. And that's not bad, but oftentimes, isn't it better to work as a community and create materials that everyone can use? And that was the premise because it was very difficult for anyone, if they saw a great co-app package, 4.2 or 42.5 or whatever, to track that down and use it took a lot of effort. So what COSIS wanted to do is try to build this collective. And the reason why this is important, this presentation is because it's already a place you can go to look for materials that are Creative Commons licensed and also fully accessible. So that's something we'll try to visit later. Now, this is a definition, and this actually came from, I'm going to see if I can move this again. I don't think my guys online that's blocked for them, but this is actually a quote from the 2010 National Education Technology Plan. And ironically enough, they took this out after the next plan was revised because everybody like knows it already. But I found often that people don't know what an OER is or open educational resource. So as you read this, is there anything that kind of hits you about what is an open educational resource? Is this old news to you guys? Didn't know it existed. Didn't know you existed. Okay, so this is important to read this definition. How about you? I heard of it and I knew that there was, I guess, licensed training materials that were permitted to be used by the necessarily connected to. And that it has important ramifications with our concept of copyright, creative comments and open educational resources. They all kind of link together. So I want to kind of get us started looking at what does that look like? What can we be aware of and then help to understand how can you find these things online? And honestly, Diana, they're out of here. She has done some amazing work with finding repositories and resource places where they have open educational resources. So you know, I didn't get all of your stolen off of your presentation, but I know where to find you. So this particular definition is fairly common across the world. This is actually in Yuseko. They use this, something very, very similar to this. A few words maybe changed around. But oftentimes what get people is this whole idea of intellectual property license that permits sharing, accessing, repurposing, including for commercial purposes, and everything goes right, materials and collaborating with others. And I just want you to kind of just take a deep breath because all of these things are left in your control when we talk about licensing. These are the types of things that can be licensed under open educational resources or licensed in a way that allows a higher or higher level of use. So you may be looking at, I don't know, maybe you listen to podcasts. I've been listening to some great audio books that at the very end of every chapter, this episode of this podcast is licensed under Creative Commons Version 3.0. I'm like, yeah, because then I know what I can do with that file if I wanted to use it instructionally or if I wanted to share it with others, I don't have to worry about somebody saying you can't do that because it's against whatever rule you want to pick. So all of these things could be licensed in a way that allows for all of those purposes. And we'll talk about they have what we call the five Rs, what that means. But to all of you use like lesson plans, textbooks, slide decks, audio files, maybe you go out and find music online that you can use with helping your students create videos legally. So all of these things can be licensed in such a way. The trick is finding one. That can be difficult sometimes. Or you do like Diana does and she finds these really great repositories and she just goes there first. So in the old days, you had to search for them individually. So let's talk a little bit about copyright and then public domain. So I did put copyright on here because I think we all have this kind of general sense of its rules that say that we can't take things without permission of the owner. If you wanted to take a portion of a book or a movie or something like that without regard right now to fair use, just saying just fair use aside because that's a whole different critter, you have to have permission to do that. Because if you don't, that author can come along, especially with new tools digitally online. They have these little bots that crawl away and say, that's my picture. You can't use it. And they'll send you a little note saying take it down or pay me money. We don't have to deal with that, especially in a school district. Because the school district gets a message too. By the way, you have a teacher breaking copyright. Here it is. Make them stop. And so we don't want that. So when we look at copyright in terms of protections, it's gotten really twisted around from the original purpose. Did you know that copyright started back in the 1600s? Spain said everyone should have access to knowledge. Yay queen, right? The problem was that over time it got embroiled in a lot of legalities and now instead of it being individuals having access to material, it was individuals having to go through attorneys to get to materials because they were protected. And that whole idea of protection has morphed. Originally it was like 20 years that would say if you wrote a book, we would guard your rights that this is your book. But after 20 years, it moved into what was called the public domain, the public commons. Anyone could use it. They can use it for whatever purpose. It's available to you. Have at it. But that's changed. Does anyone know how long the term of copyright is right now? 82 years. I think it's closer to 90. After the death of the original author. That's the death. 90 years after the death. So anybody have any idea when Walt Disney died? Do you know the big deal about Mickey Mouse? Mickey Mouse comes into the public domain next year. And everybody's going, what? You have to remember it's the first iteration of Mickey in 1912. All right. Now in 1912, Mickey looked a whole lot different as Steve Bowie will it than he does now. And so that whole idea, it's a long time, right? That's a long time. And there's Sherlock Holmes coming to the public domain. Well, wait a minute. Not all Sherlock Holmes. It's only the original ones by Offer Common Oil. And even then, it's limited because he didn't write all of his books in just one year, right? So there's a progression out of these things coming into public domain. And public domain means really simply that ownership of it is gone. It has been released. Now what's nice about now is that you or I as creators can make the choice. I'm putting this into public domain. Anybody can have it. I don't care. It's yours. I'm going to share it with the world. You've made a conscientious decision to do that. Otherwise, what do you have to do to have your materials under copyright? The money, the attorney. Really, you only have to create it. Oh, great. You create it. It is automatically protected by copyright laws in the United States. It used to be that you had to register it. You had to get a lawyer. You had to write all this stuff up. And then you sent it to the copyright office and they blessed you with a copyright symbol. Not anymore. You can be in your favorite restaurant, jotting down some ideas for the newest greatest plasma drive. And that napkin drawing is protected because it's yours. You created it. It's your intellectual property. That's great because it makes it a whole lot easier for creators to create without having to worry about, you know, protections because they're automatic. It's the creators who truly want to share that have to figure out a way to do it legally. And that's where the public domain or these open licenses, creative comments can make the difference. So that's why these items that are listed here in terms of the author gives away the rights. There's a conscientious decision or under law it's expired copyright. So we've got a lot of those things every January. We have new things coming into the public domain. Now, open licenses means that I am the creator. I still retain the copyright ownership. It was mine. You know, I took a great sunset photo over out of San San Diego Bay, whatever, but I grant certain rights to other people to use my material. I have a lot of control over those rights, what you can and cannot do with my material. Does that part make sense? Public domain, I completely give up my copyrights. Under an open license, I have choice. It's still mine. I own the copyright. I created it. It's mine, but I'm able to tell people I want to share with you. Here's what you can do with it. Does that make sense? Yeah, I took a picture of a sunset and I just posted it on something. I'm a public domain person. I know you are copyright protected. You have to specifically act to do one of those two things, right? Yes, by law and right now, there's lots of stuff going on in copyright, but anything posted on the web is not public domain. It is owned by the person who created it, which is what gets our students in trouble because we'll tell them we're going to take a public presentation, go find a picture, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, not realizing that that photo is 99% protected by copyright unless the original owner or if there's a photo service, there's all kinds of photo services that they'll say, oh, we'll let you use it one or two or three, but if you use four, you got to pay for it because you're basically paying for the license. So we have to teach our students, okay, where are you getting this stuff? Who owns it? Can you use it? Are you allowed to use it? And then the proper procedures for marking that work or saying where they got it and what can be done with it, right? Is that why Unsplash says you can download, you have the permission to download it as long as you give the author credit, correct? And that's all part of the licensing that we'll talk about pretty soon. And that's wonderful because I personally, I found like those first two photos, I love that author. I downloaded all of her photos because she took a model and she had a model doing all of these gestures, right? And I love them because I can use them in all of my presentations and she licensed them in a way that I could use them. I can even change the color of her shirt if I wanted to, but I don't need to. But that's part of that license point, right? So we need to look at what does this process look like. So this is the definition. Before I talk about the definition of open educational resource, now there are five areas, these five Rs of openness and openness isn't, I don't even know how to classify this because open means open, but we can restrict it. Now if we restrict it, it's no longer open, but it doesn't mean it can't be used. And it's really important to keep in mind because I as an author or a creator, I have the control over how I let other people use my stuff. And if I say that I took a picture of that sunset, okay, I didn't put it on splash, but I put it on my website and I say, you can use this in your stuff, but you can't change it. If you read those rules, that does not make it open. It doesn't mean you can't use it, you just can't change it, right? So that's why these four or five Rs, I used to be four, now there's five. Retain this mine, I made it, I own the copyright to it, I can download a story, duplicate it, do whatever I need to it. I can reuse it, I can put it where I want it, whether it's in a class, use it in a study group, use it online, whatever, I can kind of revise it, I can adapt it, I can change it, modify it, maybe I want to translate it into another language, maybe I want to change the colors in it. Then the next one, remix, I can combine the original or revised content with other material. Whoa, a lot more options here, right? And I can then redistribute it, I can send it to other people, I can put it where I want to put it, I can make different revisions to it. So those five Rs, they're very important to understand how the author is saying you can use it if they want to keep the full openness of it, meaning the greatest flexibility of use, we want to adhere to those five Rs, all right? Now Creative Commons is what lets us do that because Creative Commons has six different licenses. We're going to watch this video here to talk more about how this becomes important and how Creative Commons can use that license. Let me see if I can make this run. And my monitor, can you make sure that they're hearing it online? Educational resources are automatically copyrighted when you create them under U.S. copyright law. So let's say that I wrote a textbook, for example, I own that and nobody can use it without my permission. When we openly license that textbook, what we're doing is we're giving a license, we're giving permissions to the public to use that book under the terms of the license. Licenses are a part of the copyright system all around the world. They're used by big companies like when a clothing manufacturer wants to sell a superhero t-shirt. And so licenses are part of the fabric of copyright law. But all of those licenses are negotiated one to one. So when a company wants to use a text or a song or a character or part of a movie that belongs to a different rights holder, they have to have their lawyers sit down with the other lawyers and it takes time and money. So adding a Creative Commons license to a work is like saying, hey, this resource is free for you to use however you want. It's the basic Creative Commons license is the CC by license or the Creative Commons attribution license. And that's the most basic Creative Commons license. And all it says is you can use this work, this copyrighted thing, this photograph, this book, this song, if you attribute it to me, the creator. The reason a lot of educators and governments more and more are choosing that license is that the only requirement is to give proper attribution to the author, to the original creator. That's really easy to do. It also allows you to remix those works with other openly licensed works in a very easy way. And teachers have always given each other materials. And if you know the person you're sharing the materials with, you can give them permission. But when you want to share materials with teachers across the country and potentially teachers across the world, you need a standardized way to do that. And that's what the Creative Commons licenses are. It just got it all in a nice little nutshell. So again, let me see if I can get out of here without messing everything up here. Every time I do this, I end up clicking on one of those other videos and they didn't need to do that. So they talked about the licensing. Let me see if I can get this out of the way for my local audience here. So we don't have to see that. So on this left side of the screen, this particular graphic here is showing this green area in the top. And at the top of that little triangle, it says most open. Most open means it's adhering to those five Rs that we just looked at a minute ago. Okay, makes sense. When we get into the yellow, what does yellow generally mean? That's because those yellow ones are adding an element that take away one of those Rs in the five Rs. Remember, it says you can revise, you can remix, you can use it for commercial purposes, you can change it, you can modify it, you can combine it with something else, right? Well, when you get down in here, you're starting to take away some of that stuff. And that's fine. That is perfectly fine. You just have to understand what you want as a creator. So we're going to move on here to look at all of the ways that we can use these licenses or what the meanings of these licenses are. These are the typical icons and tell me, does anybody either in their online audience or in the room, have you ever seen these when you're out and about? Not together. Not together. Usually one, right? Yeah, that's one license would indicate what you can do with something. But you're starting to see them more and more. Does anybody use TED Talks in the classroom? They have a Creative Commons license attached to them. Sometimes they're hard to find. And we're going to practice a little bit with that, I think we can, to see your favorite site, what do you find there that is Creative Commons or not, right? So each one of these icons has a slightly different meaning about what you can do with it. So in this slide, my description's got crunched up a little bit. This green part, it matches the green of that previous slide, meaning it's Creative Commons attribution. You got to give credit like they were talking about in that video, right? Give credit to the person who created this. So, oops, hey, I must have touched the screen. This is a very sensitive screen. So it says, can someone use my work to make money? Yes, they can. And teachers go, what are you doing? You know, they could be fine for you to say, no, they can't make money off of me. But oftentimes, sometimes those relationships are built, or somebody who really likes your stuff, and I've seen this happen, because you could still use materials and sell them. I'm thinking about textbooks where they might charge you $5, because the feed are covering the printing of the book. There isn't profit there per se, but it is a personal decision. So I'm not saying yes or no, I'm just saying according to how Creative Commons built this, they could be used and somebody could put it in a book. And what would they have to do? They'd have to give you credit, right? And if you license it in a way where somebody can find you, you may have somebody else come along and say, hey, Diane, I saw your books that you wrote and you had this picture. Your picture was in this book that I found. I really like your photographs. Can I get more? Now, maybe that's a different relationship, because now that person can say, I want to buy more. I want to use all of your Creative Commons stuff and put it in my materials because they're so great. Or there's a different relationship that's built on that, right? So the other one that's fully open is this one down here, which has a little circle with a reverse arrow in it. And this means attribution and share alike. So if I'm a share, I'm a teacher and I create something and I say, you give me credit, but by golly, you have to share this too. You can't just take it for yourself and turn around and change the licensing unless there's other things that apply to this. But you have to share what you've done, because that's what I said you needed to do with my stuff, right? It's share of whom? Whomever. Because if I take my son's picture, I made it share alike. Diana comes along and she goes, ooh, I like that picture that I did. But she's going to put it in something and she may want to do something like print a book. But my license says, wait a minute, she has to share it just like I licensed it. So she's going to see that as more of a restriction if her intent is to use it commercially. Now, is it used for commercial purposes? Yes, it can be. So maybe her intent is something different. She wants to keep it internally or she doesn't want to tell anybody about it. The idea is, I say I want you to share it as a creator, she needs to follow that rule and share it as well. And it all depends on her use, what she's going to use it for. Maybe she's going to print it and hang it on her wall. That's fine. But I just know that if somebody asks for it from her, what does she need to do? Share it and give me credit. So those two and the green here in this green box on this page are open works, meaning they meet those five Rs. When you move into the yellow zone, you come over here where there's more restrictions. And that just means there's more restrictions for the potential creator who wants to use this work or the creator who is going to license that work. They make choices. So this CC by MC means you got to give credit, but you can't use it for commercial purposes. Okay, they can't use your stuff to make money. Can someone change my work? Yes, they can under this license. They can do that. But because they can't make money off of it, because that was one of the original intents of Creative Commons licensing, it's not fully open. There's a restriction. Each one of these has different restrictions. CC by ND means no derivative. What does derivatives mean? Changing it. So using the sunset photo, you can't change the sun to green, because I said, no, no, you can use it to make money, but you can't make the sun green. And now again, I am removing one of those Rs, which is revised. And so you can't do that. It's got to remain as is. So a lot of times people will do writing and they'll say, you know, you can't change any of the text I put in here. You can share it, you can take a copy and make it a chapter in your book that you're going to sell, but you can't change a word in my text. Can't change the color of the sun. No derivatives. You can't make changes there. When you get to attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives. We've got more circles up here. Circle with a dollar sign on the slash through it, and an equal sign. And this is basically saying, non-commercial use, no derivatives. So can someone use my work to make money? No. Can someone change my work? No. Pretty restrictive, right? So you can't do anything with it. I got to give you credit. But does that make that particular item not valuable? No, it's still wonderfully valuable. You just have to follow the rules of what the creator said you could do with it. Is this starting to kind of click about how each one of these works? The fact, though, is it set up so that it's all five hours are protected, unless the creator starts giving up some of those protections? Or how does that work? No, think of it as copyright is first. Copyright is very restrictive. It says you can't do anything with this without permission of the owner. Creative Commons comes in and says, okay, as the owner, you have choices of how you license your work. You still hold out the copyright. It's your style, but you now have to decide how can others use your work. Is it purely just based on the users or the creator's preference? Yes. Is there some advantage? That's entirely personal. Okay. I have a lot of teachers that when they see that non-commercial use, they're like, no way. Nobody's going to take my stuff and make money off of it. It's a personal choice. That's fine. But the licenses, if you apply that, you're allowing people to do that. So if you don't want people to make money, that they take your stuff and they print your sunset picture on a t-shirt and you're not getting any benefit from that, you have to be okay with that. If you're not, then you have to come over here and say, no commercial use. But you have to license your work first. Yes. Okay. You make the choices on what license that can be. Okay. You make that choice when you create your work or when you mark your work. I'm going to call marking your work. Okay. When you first create it, we know it's copyright protected. You created it. It's yours. It's the fuse and drive on the napkin, right? And this is all on an individual level. Yes. Okay. So this came up during the pandemic. I didn't know how to answer it. We use an LMS called Schoology. And the teacher asked, okay, if I create something and then I put it on Schoology, can Schoology then do what they want with it? Like, what are the protections? Is that in the fine print? In the fine print. Because that's a commercial entity that you're dealing with. And they may already have it built in and say, if anything you put up on my site, we own it. Okay. If I put a picture up on Unsplash, it's technically not mine anymore. Unsplash owns it. And I don't like that because it's my copyrighted material. I want to control where it's distributed and how it's distributed. Both of us won't read that fine print. And if you read through many of those, you're going, whoa, wait a minute. You know, I can upload all kinds of stuff. And when I do so, I release a lot of rights to those materials. They're not calling it creative comments. They're just saying, oh, this is ours now. We can do what we want. We want to put it in a promo video. We can put in a promo video and you can do about it. That may be fine for you. For other people may not. So that's why it's a perfectly legitimate question because I've seen this like on, what was that old blogger site? WordPress? WordPress. WordPress, the framework was creative comments licensed. Okay. Somebody built it and said anybody can have this framework to do blogging. What they didn't clarify is that if Penny came along and her blog, I put up my sunset picture. Everybody was assuming since it was on WordPress that my photo was also licensed the same way. And it's not because it's my personal content, which is different than WordPress as a website container place to put my stuff. Does this make sense? Okay. And it was public. It was anybody could get to it. Right. So I always had to tell teachers, like, don't assume that anything on WordPress, because at the bottom of the page, WordPress is creative comments licensed. WordPress is Penny Pearson's blog may not be. You see that? I see the furrow in your brow. This is copyright. You don't have to be a copyright lawyer or else you're going to get screwed over. If you don't even think about it, you're going to ask me, no, it tells something happens. Right. Which is, you know, I think Diane, you and I did this before where we were going through and we were reading these end user license agreements and we were both going, holy crap. You're just kind of giving up a lot if you don't read it. And I'm sorry, only of us are going to spend 15 to 20 minutes reading those things and then trying to decipher them from the legalese. Well, the three of us now. The only thing that might have been kind of enlightening is that they were pretty boilerplate. You know, you could go through it kind of since they had the same clauses. Every now and then they'd have something a little bit different, but it wasn't, it wasn't hugely different. So it's probably the same lawyer group that went around and said, do it this way. You'll be fine. But it wasn't necessarily a benefit to the creators. Right. They wanted to place the people that had a platform, WordPress, to say whatever they want, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, whatever you want to do. But not always was that individual, any Pearson blogger, aware of the fact that people were going in there and assuming the sense that platform was Creative Commons license, that everything on it was Creative Commons license. So I have a teacher who, she created her own curriculum for a specific class and there's a student who needed accommodation, but she said because her material, she doesn't know her material is copyrighted. She won't allow the student access to the material. So is that, is the teacher's information copyrighted because they work for a district or is it, is it separate or? That is a very good question. Diana and I were looking, working at it. I would work with her a lot. Sorry, I keep referring to her, but we're, oh, we are kiki people. It entirely depends on your employment contract. So if you go and I'm not going to speak for your district, but I, if I look at my district employment contract, all intellectual property that I created were owned by my district, not by me. If I did my work in off work hours, they're my work. They're my stuff. I can copyright them. But often what happens is that nobody keeps track of when they work done stuff, right? They don't take into account that there's a difference between this public side in a district and my private life when I'm writing curriculum at home. So it's really looking at what does your district say about intellectual property? I will tell you that the universities and community colleges are probably a whole lot more on top of it than K-12 districts are because they just, they buy books. They're copyrighted, right? I get a set number of them that, you know, technically, I'm not supposed to photocopy because I paid for the license for those. But when it's intellectual property, it's a different story. I'm sorry, did you have your hand up? No, but I was going to say our contract specifically, I work at a community college, our contract specifically states if you're paid for the work. So what community colleges do is they'll get grants and get a group of teachers, okay, create curriculum, you're going to get paid on this grant. So all of us didn't, even though they worked on it, doesn't matter if they worked on it at home, it's part of that project, then it belongs to the district. But same thing, what Penny mentioned, if I'm Diana, just creating my own stuff at home, it's mine, I own it. So if you own, if you created at home, but teach it in school, you still own it. It depends on what your contract says. They can say, I haven't even think that that, I mean, I've been in the district for like 27 years. I'm sure it's over in the contract, probably isn't so. I mean, that's why I'm going to tell you, again, my lawyer can't advise you, but teachers have to understand what are their work responsibilities and if they're interested in working outside of that district box, they have to know what they can and cannot do. Because if that teacher created everything on her own over here, privately, herself at home, it wasn't assigned to her by the principal. It wasn't, it wasn't because, you know, you could no longer afford to buy a textbook, whatever the case is, if she brings it back in, right, that can have ramifications because when she leaves, that curriculum technically is no longer there, if she does not release it to the school, it's copyright protected by her. So that gets to be a real sticky wicket, my official legal term, right, because teachers aren't aware of this and as they are creators, they need to know what they can and cannot take or give based on these contractual intellectual property provisions. And I don't think K-12 schools even address it because we haven't been in this era of open educational resources and copyright awareness to have it really make a difference because they're always buying textbooks. Now it's shifting. I mean, Diana leaves a whole OER department where that's all they do is write OERs for the college. So that, yeah, sorry, there is a question in the chat. I'll go ahead and read it. She said, what about uploading to YouTube or Instagram? Do they own it? They own it. Unless you specifically market as Creative Commons license. And when you do so, anybody who sees that can come along and chop it up into little pieces and they can put it on a standard YouTube channel where if they get their 50,100,100 million viewers, they're making money. Because remember Creative Commons licensing, the open licensing says somebody can make money off of it. And it's really difficult to track where your stuff goes. They haven't developed. I know Creative Commons has talked about this because when I was taking the certification course, I was like, how can I put a tag on my stuff to figure out where the heck it's gone? They don't, I mean, the technology I think is there with part of what they call metadata that, you know, if you put it in there, it's in there, but could somebody else take it out? And I don't have a way to track where this went. So this is very, in my opinion, do you have like the trust jar, you know, go to the neighborhood grocer. And if you needed a couple of bananas or something, you can take bananas and throw a change in a can. And the grocer just trusted that you did that. I think Creative Commons is still in that stage that we trust that people honor these licenses. And the only time that doesn't happen is somebody has big pockets, deep pockets, can come along and say, you use my picture. You can't do that. Ceasity says, now stick my lawyers on you. Nobody wants that. So that's why Creative Commons is meant to help alleviate that because it allows the creators especially to make a decision on how they want to share their material. But it's a very good question about these services that if you don't read the license, you are more than likely giving up more than you think you are. Okay. And last, you know, like somebody said, oh, I just make it all private. Okay, that's fine. That works great. But if you look at the standard YouTube license, they say, well, you know, you put it up here. We can do whatever we want. We don't like it. We can pull it down. We think you've been doing copyright infringement. We're going to pull it down. You do it too many times a week. Close your account completely. And I mean, we had a lot of students getting in trouble because they were taking their favorite commercial music and putting it under a YouTube video of them skateboarding, right? They didn't realize it until YouTube came along and shut down their account and said, the music you used in that, you didn't pay for it. Yeah, that happened. I made a video in high school and it was using the Mentos theme. And they didn't shut down the video per se, but they, during that segment, all the audio was gone. They took it out. Yeah. So I have another question. Let's say a student goes on TikTok and they upload a video or a clip with some popular music, whatever. Does the artist have an agreement with TikTok that they're not going to do anything about it? They're not paying them money because it's ubiquitous. I think, and I'm guessing here, because I haven't read TikToks, here's our agreement. Okay. But my feeling is this, and it's just my opinion. So if you know anything you pop in, but I think that they're getting away with it under fair use, 30 seconds or less. Probably. Probably. Yeah. I can't guarantee that, but that makes sense to me because that's under copyright law for fair use and creation and creativity and blah, blah, blah. There's all kinds of stuff in there that they want people to repurpose materials, but the lawyers have restricted it down into such a small space that it's tiny bits, right? It makes sense when you want to hear a sample of the song. It'll give you like 30 seconds. Right. Right. But I haven't read TikTok, have you? I haven't. Now I got to go read it. I'm sorry. They just gave me homework. Right. 30 seconds or less. Some of them can go up to two minutes, but then they'll say if you want to continue and go something. Yeah. And I'm not a huge fan of TikTok because it's such a time suck for me. I'm like kidding the videos right now. So that's my guess. Right. That's the most popular with the students. Exactly. Right. And I don't know if there's probably differences. You know, they have kind of the free version and then they have a paid version that might give you more or less capabilities, but they might have more restrictions on what kind of copyrighted material can you use? Where can you get it from? Like on YouTube, on their creator side, they have a whole hundreds of pieces of music that they have purchased that you can use perfectly legally without any problems. And some of it is kind of synthesized, you know, derivatives. Yeah. It's like basically creator packages where it's like, and you see them time and time again on video where it's like, oh yeah, this is like swing music. Yeah. Yeah. Swing or rocker. So that's why, you know, it gets tough for teachers and especially if you're doing classes where you're asking students to create videos or upload them to places that could be video, it could be any number of places where there's a service, that service has rules and it may or may not accommodate creative comments. Now, YouTube only allows for the most open license. And some people really don't like that. So they'll stick to the YouTube standard license, which says you technically can't take this, but by the way, there's a whole lot of tools out there that anybody can download a YouTube video with. So a little iffy that way. So when we get to more of these licenses over here, these are fairly straightforward attribution non-commercial, no derivatives can't change anything. You got attribution, non-commercial and share alike. Now people say, well, what's the difference? It all has to do with that essay of whatever you create. If I put that license on there, I'm expecting that you use it and you put it out somewhere, you're going to also make it a non-commercial share alike. This license attribution non-commercial, no derivatives, this is the one that TED Talk used. Now think about it a second, okay? You got to give TED, the TED Talk guys credit. You can't sell it, can't make profit off of it, and you can't change it, which is really a good idea because a lot of these TED Talk videos, they can be very controversial. If somebody were able to chop it up into little pieces, they might misrepresent what somebody said. So that's why they use this license, but you can still use the video. You can show the video, you don't have to show the whole thing, you can show a segment of it, right? They're allowing you to do that. I hit the next this. So now what you have is, they're probably responding to videos. So if I put up a TED Talk, and now I'm just responding to it, but I'm making money from that, I misused it. See, that's a TED Talk contract. I mean, it's the ground. I think that, again, that tweet gets farther into the weeds about copyright and use only because I don't know what the original creator wanted, and you're reacting to it. I've seen some pretty bad things happen with those, and I'm like, that's defamatory. There's some stuff going on there with those reactions that if the original owner doesn't do anything about it, it will continue. But what is the recourse? I would think right now it's all just going to YouTube, and YouTube does not have the time of day to go in and police all this, right? That's why Twitter is getting in so much trouble, because they don't have the capability of monitoring some of this speech that may or may not be appropriate. Yeah, it's all going to be AI, right? Exactly, right? They're going to take care of everything. Well, it's detrimental. The inverted creators were like, I don't know why my video was taken down. Yeah, and a lot of them didn't get an answer. Yeah, they should. I mean, under their contract, you know, notifier. Yeah, they're told it's down, and they broke this rule, but yeah, they don't tell you anything more about what that rule is, what it looked like in their particular video, right? Yeah, and I just think it's volume, right? Being able to do that. So I wanted to go along here, because I want to show you how as a creator, how you can use creative comments to apply a license to your work. So it's a straightforward process is, and you're basically, there we go. You're going to go to this website, and I will, if you want me to go there and demo it, I will, or you can do it on your machines. But when you go to creativecomments.org, there's a little button at the top that says share your work. And basically, it's a form. You're filling out the form. And you're making a decision on how that material is going to be licensed. And then from there, you can copy and paste the text in the image. Whoops. Sorry, let's go back. Here we go. And or the HTML, if you're working on a website, and you want to tell someone how that material on that website can be used. Okay. So can you get there? Do you want me to demo it on the screen? Yes, we can get there. Absolutely. Let me see if I can get there. Look in sideways here. Hold on. So I'll head out to creative commons. And on that site, you'll see at the top here where it says share your work. And this is a great place to just check out what's going on in the creative commons world. I think the last time I checked, they had something like, they're in the billions now of how many licensed creative commons license works are out there in the world. I remember when we started, it was like 200,000. At the top when you choose share your work, when this opens up, it kind of gives you the descriptors here. And on the right side, they give you licenses and examples and licensing considerations. And if you're going to do this the first time, this is just practice to see how this form works. But it's a way for you to think about how you want your stuff licensed. We're not going to use that right now, but just know that those resources are there. And down here is where we're going to use this tool to help you choose a license. So when you scroll down here a little bit, I'm going to show you another one too. So there's one that says get started. Tap that button. And now, oh, that's right. There's a new license user. This is still in beta. So when you scroll down this page, this is a little form you're kind of filling out. On the left hand side, you're asking, they're asking you questions, right? So if I'm over here, sorry, my owl folks out there, I'm going to tap on that. Yes, I want to allow adaptations of my work. And this down here at the bottom says, do you want to allow commercial uses of your work? If I choose no, I want you to look at the right side of the screen where this says selected license. You'll see the two icons, but then you'll see something change. So now I see that, okay, I've got creative comments, attribution, no commercial work. And this is not a free cultural license. And by that, I mean it doesn't mean those five, it doesn't meet those five Rs. That's all it means. It doesn't mean it's bad. It just says, you can't use this stuff to put my picture on a teacher and make money off of it. So if I say yes, now of a sudden I get my license here. And when I scroll down the page, I have more options under help others attribute to you. And they say right here, this is the beta part. This is optional, but filling it out allows people to find you. And they still haven't fixed this. Yeah, I've sent them notes, but you can put in the title of your work, like I put in copyright, creative comments, and OER as your friend or your friend, right? Then you can put in who the name is. You can put in where it might be located if you have it on a website. You can put in the source work. Now these to me, I'm like, well, for me, my attribute work to URL was my Google site under OTAN penny. My source work means that it was through OTAN because it was work that I did for OTAN. So this allowed people to find me in either place. You don't have to do that. So you might have your own personal website or your school website. You know, I have a staff page. This is all the things I do. That could be, you know, where you attribute the work because it's you. They know who now they can find you. But the source work could be, you know, I did this work as part of my district. I would put in OTAN.us, right? You don't have to put the creative comments under you, not OTAN, right? Correct. Well, for my work, it was under me because my organization at that time does not have any policy about that work that I create for them. I make the assumption they own it because they're paying me to create all this stuff, right? Does that make sense? Yeah. Now, if I go home and I'm going to create, you know, a workbook on different types of clay and pottery use, because I'm a potter, that's mine. That's my copyrighted material, my photos that I've taken, and it doesn't have anything to do with my work at OTAN. I can use the same tool to license my personal work as well. That makes sense. There's still a difference. And it has to be to a person that can't be like the corporation or something? Oh, no, it can be to a corporation. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And, you know, there's some people like the corporations, they will have an actual URL that says, want permission to use our stuff? Contact us here and they'll have a URL for permissions, right? Some of them do, some of them don't, right? And then you have the format of work. I always keep it on other multiples, but there are several here. You know, if I was doing a podcast, maybe I just mark it as audio, if I did a video or anything, you just have these options. I just choose multiple formats because that gives me the license and it gives me my mark. So right now, let's have to go back up here, I'm going to turn this off just because this is, let's see if you can get that to go away. So you'll see on the right side, based on what I did up here, all right, this is a free cultural license. And here I have my information that this, you know, this work, no title, is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. I can simply copy this and paste it into my document or on the bottom of my PowerPoint. And what's nice about this is that if I tap on the link for the Creative Commons license itself, sorry, Al folks, you're seeing my back here, I then can see exactly what this license allows me to do. And it gives me the terms and the notices and everything. And of course, I'm sorry, Creative Commons is a nonprofit. So they're going to ask you to donate money. I do that on a yearly basis, just so I, because I support their stuff. You don't have to. It's not mandatory. So I like this little beta option. I think I have to go back here. Hold on here. I don't have a keyboard. Here's a board. I'm new at this board stuff. So, pardon me. But what I do like is that if I fill this out, and I put in here a title of work, so I say, you know, penny school stuff, what's happening on the right side of the page here. Seeing it's update, penny school stuff is licensed under. And if I attribute my work, right, to my website, which I'm going to do for OTAM, oops, okay, wait, I can't type this far away. Right. So I put in my, you know, and notice it's just, oops, board, OTAM.us. Oh my gosh, forgetting my own URL. So as I go through this, I see that all updated now in this section here. Sorry. So my section is updated by my title. And then it has HTTP US. And when I hit enter or go to the next screen, that should change into a URL. Maybe I misspelled, mistyped it. Usually this would turn into, oh, I know what I've done. I'm sorry. My mistake. My name is actual the name. Right. So let me go back. I apologize here. So if I'm going to go back here and I'm just going to say OTAM. And when I go to the next one, this one should change that. You see how it changed it? Yeah. Yeah. It turned it into a hyperlink. My apologies. So I gave it to a name. That could be like your corporate name. And then when you put in your attribute the work to the URL, you could put that in. And here's where I could put in my source work, my bit.ly page or whatever. And that would then be hyperlinked within this text. And I can just select this and paste it into my document. If it was a website, you could use this box down here. Perfect. Get this to move down. And you'll see all the HTML code. Yeah. No question. I'm thinking eosidics. And I have all my eosidics stuff on a website, a Google site. I would take what you just made, copy that image, put it on my website, right? But all the individual resources of eosidics are also on my website. Do I have to put that image on all those individual documents that I created? If your entire site, you're intending it to be licensed one way, like under Creative Commons, you know, share, you know, attribution, you could put it in the footer. And maybe in the text, you could put in here, all works on these pages of so-and-so's eosidics page is licensed under Creative Commons. So at the footer. Now, I would recommend as you update your documents, you put a license mark on each of your documents. Because when somebody downloads it, they don't know what they can do with it. And I know that's a lot of work, but I would just say as you revise things, that's a time to mark them the way you want them used. Okay. Use this for books as well. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. So you don't have to do the register copyright anymore? Nope. Anything you create from the moment you created is protected by copyright law. It's globally protected. Well, yeah, it's globally protected with some exceptions of some countries have different retention rules. Like I remember right now, I think there's only one country in Europe that only retains copyright for 50 years. You know, here it's like 90 from the date of the author's death. Mexico. Huh? Mexico. They do. It's 50. Yeah. So no more mailing the stuff back to me. No more what? Pretty poor man's copyright. Were you mailing it back to you so? No. Okay. No. No, that that's that. Yeah. Okay. So hold on. Now that's one. Okay. Right. I although I love an interactive board, I'm not good at playing with them. So let me see if I can maximize this. Yeah. And then go down to here. Okay. So we've done the creative comments. Now there's always more than one way to skin a cat. So Steve, no fancy cats. There is another one, which is the one that Diana likes to use, which is an attribution builder, which I really like. They really approved it. Hold on. It's called the attribution builder. And let's see if I can get this kind of out of the way. So I have the URL in my notes here, but it's very similar in what it's doing. Okay. In that again, sorry, my online audience, you're providing a URL. You're providing an author. Let's go back again. And the organization and where it is. And then they give you the text here and they give you the the HTML. You choose your licenses over here instead of choosing radio buttons on the creative commons licensing site. Right. Oh, don't get me in trouble with moving. You might be in trouble. They don't don't touch the out camera. So okay. So this is another site that that is is a really this is very clean to me. Right. It's just very clean. And when you pull out all of the content here in terms of copying it, all of it is already hyperlinked. You don't have to worry about adding all of that extra stuff. So they both have similar purpose. They're just a little different in how they're used. I don't know, Diana, if you have a preference, you like this one. I like this one. And one thing I want to point out is the version 4.0 you want to use, which she has, you want to use 4.0 or whatever the latest version is because those versions just get better and better and better. 4.0 in particular has a copyright protection that some previous 2.0 did not have. Right. Right. So you always want to make sure on that version that you add the latest. Right. Why would they still have the older version? Because people created and marked them that way. Right. So it's it and it is it's just different iterations about how somebody, you know, I can still go find Creative Commons version 1.0. Right. And there's a lot of things that are not protected there that now with these new versions because there's they're going through all kinds of law. Can you update it or you have to read copyrighted? You can't update it. If you change the work, you can put a new license on it. Yeah. I'm not even sure like anymore. I don't think there is like a minimum like, you know, you have to change 30% before you put a new license on it. Otherwise, it's stuck till you die 90 years past. Right. No, not even 90 years. Well, technically yes, because you're the you're the copyright holder, but you've allowed use based on Creative Commons. Right. Right. The copyright resorts to public domain after the end of the copyright period, but the work is still licensed. And now you know, it wouldn't show as it being public domain after 90 years. That's why I didn't re-license your work or read. I mean, like, let's say, yeah, and licensed. Yeah. Yeah. And again, I'm really hoping that they build kind of a back end of this that says, how many times does somebody download my work? But it's a massive undertaking. Right. I mean, it's just mind boggling what it would be. And we'd end up having to go back to the registration process. You know, I want to do that. But, you know, they're, they are trying to figure out ways to do this. So these pieces, these attribution pieces, you need to be thinking about as you create works, but at the same time, let this be a guide about how other people have licensed their work when you go to look for materials. Because that is something that happens all the time. I do this and we do searches and people are like, I can't find the license. Well, not everybody is licensing under Creative Commons. So what should your assumption be? It's public. No. It's copyrighted. Oh, it's a totally copyrighted. Change your mindset. You know, it's, it's, this is not unusual. So please don't, don't feel like, you know, oh, I said something wrong. You didn't. Because we, as we created this thing called the internet and the worldwide web, and we had this ease of digitalizing materials, we never talked about it. We never told people this is what this is for. And wait a minute, you can't just steal stuff. Right. Because somebody spent the time and effort to create those things. And now we're trying to catch up with allowing people to say, Hey, this is how you can use my material. And I will tell you when you're out looking, always, always read the license. And when I say that, well, people go, Whoa, where is it? That's the Easter egg hunt of the day. Okay. Because sometimes it's not easy to find. It truly isn't because the author is not aware of Creative Commons licensing. They're not aware of even copyright law as it applies to what they put on the web. And they're, they just don't know. There's one famous website that's an adult ed website. They do a lot of instructional videos, love them, but all the materials copyrighted. So I said, well, I'm going to write to them. I'm going to tell them about Creative Commons. I said, please make this easier for our teachers to get to. So they licensed it under Creative Commons with no derivatives, no commercial use. Now all those videos are easily available to anyone who wants to use them in their classroom. They are restricted. They're not an open license. They're not an open educational resource, but they're still a great resource. They just have restrictions on how they could be used. The other thing here at the bottom, I think this is one of the things that Diana has done amazing work at San Diego. When you work as a team, you get so much more done. You leverage financial resources to an extent that's amazing. And you're working with others on the same mindset and you create materials that everybody agrees on. And it matches what you need in your program area, curriculum, whatever the case may be. How many textbooks have you guys written down? In our district? Yeah, hundreds, especially with the new funding, federal funding that our district received, millions. Do you have a kind of explaining how that worked? Because your funding originally was for buying textbooks. What happened? So the federal government created because they, well, they didn't, they wanted to make community college and university level courses as least expensive as possible because of all the problems they're having right now with students being in debt and student loan forgiveness and all that. So what they did is they offered community colleges and universities millions of dollars in funding and grants in order to create materials that are creative commons license or open textbooks, OERs. So it started years ago, but it was only universities now they've banded it to community colleges. So there's sites like Merlot, Libre, LibreTechs, Cool For Ed, and these sites were created originally so that there would be books available. Anyways, so now we have our district receive those millions of dollars and what they're doing is they're kind of they're putting out grants every semester so faculty can find up for grants. The caveat is that we have to bring in many departments. So I teach an ESL and I teach reading and so there's a reading teacher also in ABE and there's a reading teacher also in GED and so we have to collaborate with within our district with different departments and it can I can also collaborate with a different community college. So I could collaborate with I'm in San Diego I could collaborate with somebody from Sacramento or somebody from San Francisco as long as we're collaborating they don't want repetition of effort. So initially that was a struggle for our faculty but now it's like wait a minute this is actually kind of cool so I'm constantly getting email you know you we faculty added themselves to the list of what they taught and then I'll get emails hey do you want to collaborate I see you teach reading do you want to collaborate on something and be part of my project be part of my grant. So it's it's this awesome awesome effort but so what I'm hearing is is that so the the college has created their own books to reduce the cost for students that's correct and what what happens is when students do a search a catalog search when they're teaching when they want to apply for classes all community colleges have this zero textbook cost logo now so if I'm a student I can go on and say okay here's like 10 English classes and then oh look these three or these four are zero textbook cost they'll have the VTC logo so if I'm a student I'm going to sign up for that VTC logo class because right now community colleges are free and my books are going to be free so it's a really really what's the price difference these coming out of zero one because some books are like a hundred and twenty dollars so the community college with their own text is it like 50 difference or it's free 100% free oh yeah 100% and what I really like about the model too is that those monies then were funneled into supporting and paying teachers right to create these materials so the return on investment is multiple not only for the learners but for the teachers because now they're able to bring in more money and I don't know how it works at the college but some people are under a different contract or whatever and I just it's just a personally to me it's a better use of public money and right it's not just books it's whole courses yes so in my department there was a presentation early this morning on a high flex well they created a high flex manual for teachers and that's going into the comments the is it an OER comments oh yeah canvas comments okay perfect so instructors who use canvas can have their own repository of canvas comments so if I create a class or a lesson I can put that lesson or my whole entire canvas shell into commons so that's that's what's happening yeah and you're using the in-structure commons correct whereas OTAN through the state of California we have our own service available to adult ed schools to buy canvas from OTAN and we have our own kind of what they call an umbrella canvas where each school can have a separate canvas instance but we have our own adult ed commons in that system so our teachers who create materials for the ABE programs or their ESL programs they can put it in our adult ed commons because the canvas worldwide commons is ginormous and it can be very difficult to find materials that are appropriate for our adult learners so this one inside California's canvas system is only for adult ed groups that are part of our our pilot or it's not pilot we converted from Moodle over to canvas so it is a way for again leveraging some of that work that we have you know there's ideas for great plans of how to expand that to make the costs less for school sites as well as for students and things like that so so why would why would we purchase why would we have a contract with APEX or Aztec if our if our teachers know what students really need how they could benefit we could just apply for a grant and create our own sounds a very good question well that's more of like an interactive I'm assuming it's the same APEX where you think where they're going in and they have the coursework and all that as opposed to like I mean I think it'd be much more of an undertaking to design like LMS you can do it oh yeah do it built as we speak okay and if you go okay so there's a belong to academic senate at my district I'm vice president of our academic senate there's state academic senate which is ASCCC so I can go out there let me go find it ASCCC yes and they have workshops that are free that are open anytime something gets released and if you go to ASCCC OERI penny at the top where you typed ASCCC that OER OER there it is oh OERI so if you go to ASCCC OERI you can see all the initiatives all the resources that have been created through these federal funds even though you're not community college you can still go in there because this is federal funding so that means it's open to everyone and math used those types of homework system and teachers were like nope our books our page description have these wonderful so look there's tons of math right now because teachers already created something better than what was out there and it's free yeah and that's what's really nice it's really you know the power of open is really meant it goes and aligns with social justice diversity equity inclusion because now this is something that is in the public domain and I don't mean that in terms of copyright but it is the public's work because it was paid for with federal funds it's your tax dollars at work anybody has access to this now the other pieces of that are the tools that can help students gain access by changing the language of the textbook and in many cases it's simply a matter of dropping down a little list and choosing Klingon google translated has I don't remember how many languages they have but it's like 80 and if you want to translate into Spanish so now we're customizing learning for our learners that were English is not their first language so if you need to learn about earth sciences or math then here's a way that you can give them that resource without this incredible duplication of effort you just choose and translate it down there might be argument about how well google translate does that but you know the the point is still it's available for everyone so I put these sites up thank you for giving me that one I'll I also put up I think this is the right one for lever text yeah so here you've got you know access for students what they've been doing what it is and what's what's there and you know explore it and see what's going on I guess I could go worldwide right now so and then I also put up Merlot which is another one that Diane mentioned Diana mentioned and it used to be something else stacks open stacks open stacks yeah open stacks is still available but it's very kk12 oriented oriented yeah and so community college I mean this is pretty pretty amazing to come to a single website where they have 101,000 learning resources now their search tools and things will help you narrow down what you need but Merlot has been around for a while they're highly regarded they're higher level they're they're designed for university community college and and that's where this whole effort like what Diane is doing for adult education can be so valuable because we're building materials at that adult education level was in the session previously we're attended a pilot with new readers press and they had students and these are 40 50 year old students non-native English speakers they were Spanish or others and this particular software program was available to them 24-7 they had the little drop down list that they could translate anything in this software to whatever language they were dealing with and during the pandemic get this this school Santa Ana Community College had an increase in completion of 33% graduation whoa you know not everybody can do that and it was because they felt that they were using this tool that allowed such great flexibility for the instructors as well as for the learners and OER does that as well because if you work in a group you get those task force together you get that funding shifted from buying more books to saying look our teachers know what our learners need let them build it find something as a platform to start with and your group can modify it to make sure it meets the needs of your local students that again is to reinvent the wheel somebody's done this use what they've done and expand upon it or contract it so it fits what you're doing the other site I wanted to show you was we go until now right yeah okay so I'm going to bring this up but I'm going to bring up the QR code for the presentation because we didn't talk about public domain and what's coming into the public domain and I want you to be able to see that this is another site oercommons.org and this is one of the first starts that this is the first sites that I started with and the reason why is because we get this out of the way here this little group right here is adult education open community resources now not all of them are complete so you have to kind of sift through them but it was one of the few OER repositories that recognize the value of adult education outside of K-12 community college university so it's a great place to share and find other works as well and then of course Diana's piece here on a ACC I can't read it from here I want to explore this one I got to get out of here because we have another session coming up let me bring up the QR code here let me put the question yeah how did the book publishers respond? In my district people have come up to me because I work at a community college there are a lot of public writers and publishers that are making quite a you know quite a good income um yeah so writers and ventures work in my district oh yeah I was approached yeah but with dialogue with my district within my district but the publishers now they're they're kind of there's going to be today I think it already happened but they're if you go to the ASCCC OERI site there are a lot of webinars one of the things that publishers are doing right now is they're getting sneaky they're using some of the OER terms they're using some of the humanizing your class terms they're using some of the they're using the terms that are out there the the keywords and they're they're publishers right they have lots of money but they're still they're still going to make money right they're still a use they're still a purpose for some of those materials but they are really being sneaky and it happened at Grossmont locally here at Grossmont. Diane I need to cut you off but I need to tell my online audience we are out of time so please download the the slide deck there's lots of links there for public domain and where public domain materials are which include you know first source materials from history the Smithsonian has great collections and all kinds of stuff thank you for coming I have to close the meeting because we got somebody else coming in real soon so thank you so much for being here let me stop this share thanks everyone online appreciate you joining us today