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Harry's Powerpoint

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I showed him the basics of how to extract the photos from the camera, how to insert them into PowerPoint, and some basic instruction on PowerPoint. " In fact, Harry is being interviewed by a national publication next week about his thoughts on creative commons licensing. Harry is 8 years old).

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What happens when you set your content free with creative commons licensing?

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I use the " BY Attribution " creative commons license. I've used this license. I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. No, but is more likely to happen is that people will use the work, use the license honestly, and improve the work.

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What A Second Grader Knows About Creative Commons Licensing.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To keep him engaged with his school work, I've been teaching him powerpoint and how to make slide shows related to content he's learning in class. He also has a digital diary in the form a powerpoint presentation. Harry is in second grade and he is very much a digital native. He's pretty smart too. Here's the screencast.

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How Trickle Up Animated Their Nonprofit Story

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But through creative use of PowerPoint , the deck became a three-second. President, admits he;s somewhat of a PowerPoint whiz. PowerPoint’s tools to design the animations. " Familiarity with the tool, he explained, made PowerPoint the obvious. PowerPoint file and accompanying music into a video.

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The Social Life of PowerPoint Presentations (or why I really love SlideShare)

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Deborah Finn also goes on to mention that she hopes to remix some of the content - and that is the intention by using the Creative Commons licensing. SlideShare is a social networking site that lets you share Powerpoint presentations. In fact, I have a " Remix This PowerPoint " presentation up on slide share right now!

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It is difficult to let go of the old ways. from powerpoint to wikitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also trying to move from powerpoint to wikitation. And, if you're lucky enough to have colleagues who have used wikitations on similar topics and have made them available under CC "BY" license, you could certainly rework their material. Community groups, nonprofits and other entities are embracing Web 2.0

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Remix, Reuse, or Repurpose This Blog Post! Creative Commons Teachable Moment

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Remix this Powerpoint. The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.” The licenses let you pick how to publish your work and grant others the right to reuse it. The license itself doesn't specifically define attribution.

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