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'Free to mix: An educator’s guide to reusing digital content' has been developed by Digital New Zealand with the support of Services to Schools, National Library of New Zealand. This Slideshare remix has been made by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) to support teachers and students entering the NZTA_Remix Competition 2012.

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Free to Mix

An educator's guide to reusing digital content

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About'Free to mix: An educator’s guide to reusing digital content' has been developed by Digital New Zealand with the support of Services to Schools, National Library of New Zealand. This Slideshare remix has been made by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) to support teachers and students entering the NZTA_Remix Competition 2012 NZTA Education Services and competitions: http://education.nzta.govt.nz

Digital New Zealand: www.digitalnz.org Services to Schools and libraries supporting literacy and learning: schools.natlib.govt.nz

Make it Digital: makeit.digitalnz.org

This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand License. In essence, you are free to copy, distribute and adapt the work, as long as you attribute the work to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, when required, and abide by the other licence terms.

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The NZTA Remix competitionKey points

The theme is 'Safer Journeys for Teens' or for Auckland schools 'Safe Motorway Travel' with three sets of prizes to be won. Entries will open on September 1st 2012 and close on October 31st 2012. The NZTA_Remix competition is for students in years 9 - 13 in the following competitions:

● Auckland schools (schools in the Auckland Council area)● Rural schools (schools defined by the Ministry of Education as being rural)● All other schools with year 9 - 13 students (including schools with other year levels)

The competition is in two parts:

1. To create an infographic, mashup, creative remix, or a literature remix (based on the works of Shakespeare) using content and data from NZTA websites and publications.

2. The second part is to present or engage with students at your school with the entry you have made, and provide evidence of having undertaken this.

For more information: http://education.nzta.govt.nz/competitions

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Contents

1. Introduction2. Understanding remix3. Remixing with respect4. Understanding copyright5. Finding great content for reuse6. Becoming part of the creative remix community

Digital storytelling7. Photo remix8. Infographics

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Introductionre•mix n. (rē-mĭks')A new version of a song, book, picture, video (you name it) made by adding to, or otherwise changing the original version (license permitting).

This presentation has been written to support educators to easily find and use excellent reusable content for creative activities. After using this presentation, it is intended that:

● Educators understand the variety of usage rights applicable to digital content

● Educators have ideas for teaching their students about usage rights

● Educators and students have the skills and confidence to find material that is suitable for reuse

● Educators and students feel confident creating new digital content, including remixes

● Educators and students create amazing, inspiring, creative new works to share with others

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Understanding RemixThe term remix originally referred to using music samples to create alternative versions of a song. It can now refer to any sampling or overlaying of text, music, video and images. Now that almost anyone can make new works using digital copies we need a new media literacy, so we can successfully create, quote and reference digital content.

Key points

● Remix can refer to any sampling and overlaying of print, music, video and images

● Collage, photomontage and documentaries are early forms of remix

● Remix requires similar skills to traditional literacy, only using multiple forms of media content

● Creating, quoting and referencing for multiple media content are similar to printed content. Both involve convention and law

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Quoting and remixing“Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?” ― Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy A quote used to review or illustrate a point of discussion or argument does not require any permission or licence from the original author or creator. This is seen as ‘fair dealing’ under copyright law. Convention and law allows quoting where the source of the quote is acknowledged; and the length of the quote is not disproportionate to the original source. A quote that is too long or not acknowledged is seen as plagiarism by convention; and if it is substantial enough can be a copyright infringement by law.

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Quoting and remixing The convention in most cases is to ask permission of the owner or copyright holder of a photograph, film or video clip or recorded music before using it in a new work. This convention is often followed even where the copyright in a work has expired. News and current affairs reporting are excepted from this convention (although using photographs still requires permission). It is often easier to follow the convention of asking permission than to assume using a sample or an image is ‘fair dealing’.

Conventions are generally agreed or accepted standards, norms or customs that may take the form of an “unwritten law”. Plagiarism is an example of a convention, as it is not against the law, but is widely viewed as dishonest behaviour.

Laws are written and decided on by Parliament, but are often focused on what you cannot do rather than what you can do. Judges in courts have the power to interpret and decide on whether a particular law has been broken in a specific case. Their decisions have the same effect as a law written by Parliament.

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Remix and the internetThe internet itself works by constantly copying content and moving it to other computers so it can be read or used. That means by default anything you place on the internet can be easily copied. For a long time people assumed that this ease of copying meant all the content on the internet was free for anyone to use without permission. This assumption is wrong: content on the internet is protected by the same laws as any other works like books, CDs or DVDs. The difficulty now is, unlike books, CDs or DVDs, reading, watching or listening to anything on the internet involves making a copy (copies of web pages and media download into your browser cache, memory or hard drive). You cannot avoid making copies when you use the internet.

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Classroom remix ideas

Some classroom activities

● Watch and play examples of remix (music, video, artworks)

● Search the internet for remixes of famous works like the Mona Lisa

● Identify/count how many different sources are involved in making a new work (e.g. a book with references, photos and quotes; a video documentary)

● Create a class collage with a mix of photos, drawings and words. Discuss the different elements

and what you could add (e.g. sound and movement) if your collage was in a digital format

● Use an application like GIMP or Paint.net to alter an image or add something else to it.

For more classroom ideas: Download the Free to Mix printable guide

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Remixing with respectBorrowing, adapting and building on the works of others the way we build and share our cultural knowledge and experiences.

The creative process we call remix does this with multiple media, but the clearest example of remixing is storytelling.

Shakespeare is a famous example from the past of someone who borrowed or adapted his storylines from others with great popular success.

Key points● Borrowing and adapting is part of the creative process

● It is important to acknowledge the original work, even if it is not in copyright

● Some works have special conditions put on them to prevent remixing

The oldest known version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was told by the Roman poet Ovid (43BC-17AD). It was the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, two lovers in the city of Babylon who, despite being neighbours, were forbidden by their parents to wed.

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Acknowledgement is importantToday's literary convention is to acknowledge where possible the original creator as the inspiration or source for a new work. This convention of acknowledging the original(s) also applies to remix works made with multiple media. There are three main reasons we acknowledge our sources (students might be able to think of others):

1. We want to be honest and give credit to the work of others, especially those who depend on rightful acknowledgement of their work to earn a living or gain credentials or qualifications. 2 Acknowledging sources helps a reader or viewer to put the new work into context. In scholarly work this is commonly called ‘referencing’ or ‘citing’, and in film and broadcast media ‘crediting’. 3. Originals may come with some special conditions such as restrictions to protect individuals or sources.

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Special conditions Many museums, archives and libraries hold works that have special conditions placed on who can use them and for what purposes. For example, diaries and letters are often of cultural or historic significance, but the original authors often never intended that their material would be published. In these cases, talk to the institution that holds the material you want to reuse. Key points Images of people, where they are identifiable, should also be considered with extra care. If in doubt - ask for their permission. Before reusing, consider if the person in the image knows about it and the way it has been made available. In some cases the use and display/publication of an image may infringe a person's right to privacy. Netsafe has sections about creating new content while respecting privacy. http://www.netsafe.org.nz

Download the Free to Mix printable guide for Remixing with Respect Classroom Ideas

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Understanding Copyright

The first copyright law was the Statute of Anne, put in place in England in 1709 to give protections to both authors and buyers of printed books.

Copyright is an internationally recognised legal protection under the New Zealand Copyright Act 1994 that gives someone (usually the creator or publisher) an exclusive right for a set period of time to copy, distribute, show, perform, communicate or adapt an original work.

Creators or publishers also have the exclusive right to licence that work to someone else.

Key points:● Copyright was established in a time of printed material

● Copyright is international

● Copyright enables people to make money from their work

● Copyright expires and then the work becomes available for other people to use it

● Use without permission is not the same as piracy

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Copyright exceptionsA copyright licence is a legal means for a copyright holder to give permission to someone to copy, distribute, show, perform or adapt an original work. Unless you have a licence, you cannot lawfully do these things. However, there are some exceptions:

Fair dealingFair dealing is allowed (with some conditions) for criticism, review, news reporting, research and private study. There are also a range of permitted copying uses for educational purposes - for the full list check with the Copyright Council of New Zealand.

Public domainThe term public domain is a general concept that can be applied to a range of things that are freely available or visible to the public. In the context of copyright, public domain is used to describe material that has no legal protection.

Unknown copyrightMaterial that is likely to be in copyright, but the creator and copyright owner cannot be identified, is often the most difficult to deal with. In some cases published material can be made available, if there is no known copyright owner and authorship cannot be established.

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Permission v PiracyCommercial media organisations such as music and movie studios and distributors often equate all forms of use without permission to piracy. The term piracy, being an act of intentional counterfeiting or copying for financial gain, may not reflect what is actually happening to this content. Copyright infringement is not the same as piracy. While remix and sharing of content without permission can certainly be for commercial gain, many cases of use and sharing are purely creative or social. Video sharing sites such as YouTube are well known for their remixed content, most of which is non-commercial and used without permission, and there is generally no 'passing off' or financial gain. However some publishers seek to prosecute users of their content regardless of whether or not there is commercial gain.

Download the Free to Mix printable guide Understanding Copyright Classroom Ideas

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Finding great content for reuseThere is so much fantastic content out there already licensed for reuse that there is no good excuse to use material you do not have the rights for.

Searching by Creative Commons licence is an easy way to find material you can remix, add to or change.

Creative Commons was set up to enable copyright holders to give permission in advance so people can use their content without having to directly ask permission.

Key points:● There is lots of great material that you have the rights to reuse

● You will need to acknowledge the creator of the material and note where the items can be found

● You’ll need to understand any other restrictions – but this isn’t hard!

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Creative Commons LicensesThere are a range of Creative Commons licences; the four that allow remixing are:

Attribution (BY) – only need to credit the original creator

Attribution Noncommercial (BY-NC) – for non-commercial purposes, and you need to credit the original creator

Attribution Share Alike (BY-SA) – credit the original creator, and make your new content available under the same cc licence

Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike (BY-NC-SA) - credit the original creator, and make new content available under the same cc licence, and for non-commercial purposes.

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Watch Creative Commons Kiwi

“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 licences can help you do both. We’ll show you how.”

Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.creativecommons.org.nz

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Places to find CC material If you are looking for New Zealand images, video, audio and lots of other content to reuse, a great place to start is Digital NZ: www.digitalnz.org.nz You can apply a ‘modify’ usage rights filter to the search results to find digital content you can add to or change.

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How Digital NZ Works

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Other places to find CC ContentOther places to find Creative Commons licensed content include: ImagesFlickr - http://www.flickr.com/creativecommonsGoogle images - http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search VideoYouTube - http://www.youtube.com/editor (select the CC tab)FedFlix - http://www.archive.org/details/FedFlix MusicJamendo - http://www.jamendo.comCcMixter - http://ccmixter.org Mixed mediaSpin Express - http://www.spinxpress.com/getmediaWikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org

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Acknowledging content useYou always need to acknowledge the creator of the content you are reusing. If possible add a link to the original work or describe how to find it. Acknowledgements can be next the item such as pictures, or at the end in a bibliography or credits. For a guide to styles for acknowledging information from books, websites, images, audio video and data: Download the Free to Mix printable guide from the National Library, Services to Schools

Other useful resources: APA style guide - http://www.apastyle.org

EndNote - http://www.endnote.com

Zotero - http://www.zotero.org

Bibme - http://www.bibme.org

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Join the creative communityKey points You can create your own digital content as

● Completely your own original work

● Your original work remixed with someone else’s work

● Your work as a development of other people’s works Remixes can be in any format – film, music, digital story, poetry, cartoon, data visualisation, painting, poster etc. You can make your work available for other people to remix, and give explicit permission for what people can do using Creative Commons licenses. Use this online tool to help you choose a CC license: http://creativecommons.org/choose Learn to Make It Digital: http://makeit.digitalnz.org

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Becoming a creatorA bit of planning before you start remixing will lead to a greater chance of success.

● Think about what you want to achieve and who your audience is

● Choose technology that is available and appropriate – be careful not to let the technology direct what you want to do

● Do a practice run if any part of the process or technology is new to you

Also consider,:

● Where do you want to present your work and store it?

● Who else do you want to be able to access it?

● How will you let other people re-use your work?

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Sharing your new workOnce your new work is complete, you will usually make it available for other people to view. If any of the material you have remixed was sourced under a Share Alike Creative Commons licence, you will have to use the same licence for your work. Hosting sites like YouTube and Flickr make it easy to set the CC license you want. If you are not given this option, you can apply a Creative Commons licence by following the steps on the Creative Commons Aotearoa NZ website http://www.creativecommons.org.nz. They even provide a snippet of code you can embed into your website to link people to an explanation of the licence you have used.

Download the Free to Mix printable guide Creative Remix Classroom Ideas

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Digital StorytellingKey points

Digital storytelling is simply storytelling in a digital format. It can come in lots of different formats using sound, video, images, music, text and more. Telling a good digital story is the same as telling a good story, with some new things to consider. All the content you reuse needs to be licensed for reuse. Digital stories are usually short (ideally 30 seconds to 3 minutes). There is generally more showing and less emphasis on the telling. Every frame must have impact and purpose.

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Elements of storiesAll stories:

have a specific topic or plot have a beginning, a middle and an end relate to people or characters are told from a particular point of view a good story makes the audience FEEL something

Digital stories are produced using digital tools, usually published on the internet or DVD. They can use newly created digital material, existing digital material, or material that has been digitised for this purpose.

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Photo RemixKey points A photo remix can be very complicated or very simple, you choose. Think about the statement you are trying to make or the concept you are trying to show. Make sure your final product still has the elements of a good photo. You can combine different photos or change a single photo in some way. You can add elements, crop parts, change bits, whatever you like. Techniques of collage, photomontage and scrapbooking can all be used.

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InfographicsInfographics usually use a combination of text and graphics to explore a set of related ideas and data but they are primarily a visual composition Good infographics will be interesting, beautiful and easy to understand Keep it simple! Sometimes people talk about infographics as being visual essays. This is a useful comparison and you can approach an infographic in much the same way as you would an essay. The difference is that essays are more text based, infographics are more visual. Look at Visual.ly for good examples or make your own infograhics.

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Infographics

Make your own infographics with http://visual.ly/

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Making an infographicGather your materials and explore the data Begin by importing the data into an environment where you can easily visually explore the data. Spreadsheets are the easiest way to do this. At this stage, forget about what it will look like and just think about the interesting aspects of the data.

Create a visual framework Sketch a skeleton of concepts and arrows, grouping related data together Be conscious of the path(s) you want the reader to take through your infographic. Some infographics, set context with a broad introduction, other use a series of small visualisations

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Making an infographicAssemble your infographic Once you have a broad structure you can start filling in the details. Color is a critical visual element for conveying a wide array of messages and for orienting the reader. Use as few colours as you can get away with and assign them to particular themes (e.g. pale grey for navigation and chart axes, dark grey for text and labels, blue for growth, red for loss, etc.). Design around a visual hierarchy – the order in which the human eye perceives what it sees. People will see large dark text in the middle of the page before they see pale text in the margins. Through colour, layout and typography you can guide a reader’s eye around the page the way you want to. Less is more!

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Some free remix tools Images:

Pixlr - online image editor - http://pixlr.comFotoflexer - http://fotoflexer.com

Video:

YouTube Video Editor - http://www.youtube.com/editorStroome - http://www.stroome.com

Audio:

Aviary audio editor - http://advanced.aviary.com/tools/audio-editor

Animation:

Go Animate - http://goanimate.com Infographics: Visual.ly - http://visual.ly/

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NZTA Remix Competition 2012Key points

The competition is in two parts:

1. To create an infographic, mashup, creative remix, or a literature remix (based on the works of Shakespeare) using content and data from NZTA websites and publications.

2. The second part is to present or engage with students at your school with the entry you have made, and provide evidence of having undertaken this.

There are three sets of prizes to be won including $10,000 of vouchers for your school, $2,000 towards presenting at the International Conference of Thinking 2013 and $500 vouchers for the winning team.

Start remixing now! Entries will open on September 1st 2012 and close on October 31st 2012.

For more information: http://education.nzta.govt.nz/competitions

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NZTA Remixable Content

NZTA Websites

There are many resources available at the NZTA education website and other related sites for remixing in the competition. You can start by visiting:

● http://education.nzta.govt.nz

● http://bikewise.co.nz

● http://www.rightcar.govt.nz

● http://www.practice.co.nz

● http://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/roadcode

● http://www.safeteendriver.co.nz

Find more NZTA Remix resources at: http://education.nzta.govt.nz/competitions

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NZTA Remix Competition 2012

Full competition information can be found at: http://education.nzta.govt.nz/competitions