July 2007
Content:
- Experience report on the Qualification workshops for Trainers
on visual learning in Ireland
- Searching for the free Pictures: Creative Commons Licenses and
Picture Libraries
1. Experience report on the Qualification
workshops for Trainers on visual learning in Ireland
Following a one –day workshop in Bonn, 3 workshops were delivered in Ireland
on visual learning. Orignally two workshops were planned. Due to a strong demand
of the participants a third one followed up.
One workshop was titled “Learn to see- See to learn “ to highlight the dual
purpose of the day. Two of the workshop sessions were prepared to encourage
tutors to use more visual materials with students. The objective of these 2
sessions was to give tutors the opportunity to look at and interpret images and
to prepare ways in which they could help students to do the same thing – “Learn
to see”
The other 2 sessions concentrated on “seeing to learn” and looked at visual
learning in the light of individuals who need to learn in a visual way and who
learn most effectively using their visual intelligence.
Most of the tutors who attended felt that the workshops provided a variety of
practical approaches, which they could use with their own students. At the same
time the theoretical discussions within the workshop added to the tutors’ own
knowledge of visual learning and visual literacy. The learning objectives of the
workshops fulfilled the expectations of the groups who attended.
Jane Smith
Bray Adult Literacy Scheme
2. Searching for the free Pictures: Creative Commons
Licenses and Picture Libraries
An internet
searching-engine looking for the terms „free picture“ or „free clipart“ will
find, depending on its type, two to tree million hits. But only a small number
are really useful. Although being advertised as license-free or royalty-free, it
often only applies for private use and not for publishing in the internet.
Besides, flash pop-up commercials complicate the investigation.
Gratis
Arts: „Creative Commons“ give practical advice
Creativ Commons exist since 2001 and
provide licenses which give copyright-holders the possibility to decide how
their works can be used, id est: copied, passed on and modified.
As a user of CC-contents, you have security about the legal forms of usage and
can use photos free of costs while being legally protected.
Any license is
obtainable in different languages, as a summary in commonly understandable
formulation.
The
most important Components of Creative Commons Licenses:
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Attribution
(„by“): Source-identification; only when the author is named, the work may
be used.
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Share-Alike
(„sa“): Modifications must be posted under the same license as the original.
Only sensible without „No Derivatives“.
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No
Derivatives („nd“): The work can only be used as original, id est: totally
unmodified.
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Non-Commercial („nc“): The work or its modifications must not be used for
commercial purposes.
These
components are processed into preformulated, immediately valid licenses. See
details under
http://creativecommons.org/license
Works with the
denotation „pb“ (public domain) usually are not subject of copyright law. Unlike
the U.S., in Germany and Austria there is no
complete lack of copyright (e. g. for common benefit) possible. Hence, for
example, photos which are not subject to copyright in the U.S., may well be
legally protected in Germany.
Free
Clipart: A Selection of good Web-sites
Please consider the respective right
to use of each paricular picture. We can not guarantee for all contents of the
above mentioned sites to be “free” under any circumstances.
Do you know
further helpful sources for pictures? Please send us your suggestions. We will
publish the best links on our homepage. Thank you.
Contacts:
Project-coordinator:
Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE)
German Institute for Adult Education (DIE)
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 38 53113 Bonn
Germany
T (+) 49 228 3294-306
F (+) 49 228 3294-399
Contact person: Monika Tröster
Website: www.die-bonn.de/visual
Partner:
FiaTest Bucharest
FiaTest Group
Str. Transilvaniei 24
Sector 1 Bucharest
Romania
T (+) 40 21 312-1347
F (+) 40 21 312-2106
Contact person: Simona Gitu
Website: www.fiatest.ro
Instytut Technologii Eksploatacji
Państwowy Instytut Badawczy (ITeE-PIB)
Institute for Sustainable Technologies
National Research Institute
ul. Pulaskiego 6/10
26-600 Radom
Poland
T (+) 48 48 3644-241 ext: -205
F (+) 48 48 3644-760, 36447-65
Contact person: Malgorzata Kacprzak
Website: www.itee.radom.pl
National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA)
76 Lower Gardiner Street
Dublin 1
Ireland
T (+) 353 1 8099-191
F (+) 353 1 8555-475
Contact person: Fergus Dolan
Website: www.nala.ie
www.literacytools.ie (adult literacy
learning and tuition website)
Atrium
Research & Innovation Ltd
The Reflexion Foundation
Hofdwarsweg 12
6161 DD Geleen
The Netherlands
T (+) 31 46 4106-374
F (+) 31 46 4106-375
Contact person: Joost Thissen
Website: http://www.atriumbv.nl
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