ds106
One of the things that caught my attention on the ds106 site was the site’s title “Digital Storytelling it immediately bought to my attention the similarities to our class name. My first link was a story The Importance Of Words. The story began with a question of the importance of words in our lives. Then the writer when into the story
The story that I picked was about the importance of a language and the role that words play in our life. This story talked about people who did not have any language. As Susan was very surprised seeing a 27 year old man without having any language, since he was born deaf and he did not know that there is something such as words. And when he learn sign language from Susan, he became so emotional that he cried because the meaning of life changed for him as he realized that everything as its own name and definition. As he said that his life without language was a dark life but now he is in a bright life.
As for this and other intellectual property ds106 seem to have a of respectful and an open policy like our digital history class. As for fair use they invite people to use and share the information just like wikipedia. I love one of their “subtle rules of NO APOLOGIES for not being able to participate when other parts of life intrude.” But particularly it was the way in which they choose to layout the creative commons in a language that was very simple and inviting to ready. I believe that it was my first time actually finishing the legal language of any document online. Impart too because they especially didn’t make it very long as to discourage the masses from reading it.
Finally, the theme of giving back, contributing and meeting new people gave me new motivation to take part in an online communities like ds106 and that made me see the importance of the site like these.
Thanks, Felipe, for your review of what you found at ds106. I’m glad to hear that you found the Creative Commons documentation so clear and straight-forward–this is an important part of the goal of that project. However, that project is separate from ds106. In what specific ways do the leaders of ds106 steer the community toward CC licensing?
You point out that ds106 invites “people to use and share the information just like wikipedia.” While it is true that the ds106 seeks a massive base of contributors, as does Wikipedia, there are different expectations for the ways in which ds106 will “give back.” Can you comment on how those expectations are different from Wikipedia?
Hi professor Harbison there was a page that I came across on the site that had the same cc licensing at the bottom of the page just the same way you guys did one of your pages; however, while I was looking around this site I specifically found that the site implicitly made mention and encouraged people to using the site for free, and to give credit to the sources by linking back to the original and other means showed their commitment ensuring that the right people was getting the credit for their work. Below is actually a paragraph that I took from the ds106 website.
“We should say that all of the assignments listed here have been shared freely by participants or just people interested in ds106. Many of them are ideas borrowed from others. While we do not attach any specific license to an assignment, all of them are shared implicitly with no restrictions. That said, it is worth crediting the person who submitted the assignment and linking back to the url where it is found.”
there is always a tacit agreement as to how you can use information. I think although free it still has guidelines to the use of the website.