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The Three Professors

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This episode is a little different from the others in the Create World 2008 Podcast Program. This 8 minute vodcast (video podcast) episode explains the character of Create World and provides a rich visual record of what happened at Griffith University in Brisbane Qld on the 7-10 December 2008.

We asked Professors Roly Sussex (UQ), Paul Draper (Griffith) and Phil Long (UQ) to reflect on the special character of Create World, and have brought you their subsequent discussion against the background of some 124 shots of this great conference, provided to us from hundreds taken by Stephen Johnston (ECU), editor, and Paul Godfrey (ECU), photographer, of the AUC magazine "Wheels for the Mind".

You can access this episode in different file formats and sizes. You can watch it on Youtube by clicking below, download it from the Podcast Program site by right clicking the links above, or have an iPod friendly version delivered to your computer as part of the program subscription.

Now we know a lot of you who attended Create World 2008 will enjoy the memories but we would like to encourage you to do much more with this episode.

Share the Wisdom and Promote Create World: Help your colleagues at your institution learn more about the knowledge and wisdom emanating from the conference. Set up a "brown-bag lunch" meeting or informal think-tank, where you can talk about ideas from Create World that may be of benefit to your institution. Use this episode as an introduction to the conference and then choose clips and ideas from any of the other 23 episodes in the Create World Podcast Program to explore those things that, as Roly Sussex says in this episode, "might take you to new places, and bounce you from where you are now to where you want to go next"

To help those who would like to run these meetings we have available a stand-alone player, for Mac OS only, which runs this presentation in an uncompressed stunning full screen mode. …. it’ll get their attention. It is a chunky 435 mb so please email Allan Carrington and we can work out how to get a CD to you.

Share your creative ideas: Help others who attended Create World 2008 by sharing with us how you use this presentation, and the other content in the Podcast Program, to disseminate your Create World learnings to your colleagues. Please contribute your ideas and experiences by commenting on this blog or better still, record your thinking on the comment board. Be part of the wisdom – and make Create World 2009 an even better experience.

In the late 1950s C. P. Snow set the scientific cat amongst the humanities pigeons with his claim that there was a damaging and perhaps irreconcilable divide between the two main cultures of contemporary society: the scientific and the literary liberal arts. Some 50 years and a digital revolution later, Phil Long took up the two cultures issue in his Create World 2008 keynote address, locating it within a dazzling array of research on neuroscience, learning and emerging technologies. (You can view a 3.3MB pdf of Phil’s slides and notes here, but you may need to be patient while it loads.)

Phil is currently in transition from MIT to the University of Queensland, where he is the founding director of the Center for Educational Innovation and Technology. His current research interests focus on designing learning spaces to support active learning, emerging technologies, the use of virtual worlds, and digital tools that extend understanding of the physical world. Here he is giving a guest talk at Berkeley in early 2008:

Phil spoke with Allan Carrington and Ian Green immediately after his Create World presentation. Phil is a dynamic speaker, so there’s a good chance that when you listen to this audio you’ll be fired up to make your contribution. Please don’t hesitate. Go to the comment board and express yourself.

Listen to the Episode: Hacking for global democracy?

You know how a few years back we all got very excited when rapidly developing communication and consumer technologies opened up the door for the idea of ‘citizen journalism’? Well Stephen Stockwell (Griffith University) says the time is now ripe for the ‘citizen hacker’. But don’t get him wrong, he’s not suggesting that we all now have the capacity to break through the firewalls of government, corporate and security service networks, and that by doing so we will somehow make things better in the world.

He suggests rather that there is a new ‘hacker ethos’, one which applies to those who are ‘repurposing the media machine to open and extend debate beyond traditional national and social borders’. And he makes the claim (Stockwell 2008:8) that:
This new form of politics connects to its public via “viral campaigning” using music, humour, fuzzy logic, ambush promotion and interactivity to infect populations with arguments that generate political debate and take off on a life of their own.

So how can you become a citizen hacker? And do you really want to be one? And just by clicking on the latest Sarah Palin send-up on YouTube and forwarding it to your friends, have you in fact, without knowing it, become one already? …. To explore these issues, our old hack, Allan Carrington, ventured forth to interview Stephen. Hear it all in this podcast episode.

True to his principle that ‘information wants to be free’ Stephen has kindly made his paper – We’re All Hackers Now … Doing Global Democracy – available for distribution. It is a powerful, challenging and scholarly piece, so please get fired up and hack into our comment board with your take on this topic.

Listen to the Episode: King of the VJs
Luke Toop (University of Adelaide) is a Video Jockey. Well not just any old video jockey. Having cut his live coding teeth on the Isadora graphic programming environment, Luke Toop is now the undisputed king of Quartz Composer, a visual programming language that is integral to Mac OS X.

Which is a very dry and techno-geeky way of saying – this guy can crank out stuff like you have never seen before. Luke’s Create World 2008 performance was simply stunning: Luke on his own at the front of the auditorium, armed with just a Mac laptop, pumping out the music and throwing up on the screen the most exciting set of visual ideas that you are ever likely to see interacting together in one place.

In this podcast episode Allan Carrington interviews Luke about his work, and along the way does some rueful reflection on how far we’ve come since Allan got to plug in his first set of disco lights. A long way indeed. Luke’s performance wasn’t any ordinary disco. My brain was frazzled with new ideas, and my eyeballs were fried.

Unfortunately this episode is the only recording we can offer you – Luke’s emphasis, it seems, has been on the real-time performance, on the act of creating itself, not on capturing it for later replay. (I guess it comes as a kind of relief to find that in this most digital of arts there is still a premium on the ephemeral rather than the archival.)

But if you want to keep in touch with what’s going on with Luke you can monitor his Epiphanies blog at http://luketoop.com, and you can find out more about applications of the composer at the Quartz Composition site. And get into some mind-bending stuff about the world of live coding over at Toplap.

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Panel members (L to R above): Prof Roly Sussex, facilitator (University of Queensland); Prof Paul Draper (Griffith University); Dr. Kate Foy (late of University of Southern Queensland); Prof Phil Long (University of Queensland).

Analogue and digital have re-defined their relationship in artistic production over the past two decades. This panel raises as many questions as it attempts to answer. What a perfect opportunity to use the feedback facility offered by this site!

Digital reigns for recording, the placing of output on permanent record in the performing arts. And it has won the day for dissemination for all the arts. True, one attends an exhibition. But what exhibition of note does not have a website, the better to project its work to an international audience?

In the visual arts, oils, paper, pastel, lithography, stone are surely still fundamental, not only to the artistic object, but also to its means of conception and production. And yet there are digital resources for graphic production, from CADCAM to drawing programs to digital printing, which meansthat the artist’s output is not just disseminated digitally, but is directly
experienceable in the digital form.

Nonetheless, there are many practices which will remain ‘analogue’. In fact it is the extended relationship between the new and the old that makes both traditional and now niche  practices more effective and sustainable. And then there are hybrids – a cross-mixing of analogue and digital.

The panel asks many questions:

• What is the relationship between digital and pre-digital artistic media?
• How does the new affect the old?
• How does the old affect the new?
• Does ubiquitous dissemination affect the status of the aesthetic experience?
• And what of creation?

Help formulate the responses to these questions. Watch these episodes and then go to the comment board to contribute your ideas.

Listen to the Episode: Music, Recording and the Art of Interpretation
Leading Australia pianist Stephen Emmerson and audio producer Paul Draper (Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University) are collaborating on a piece of music in a new way, undertaking some thoughtful unpacking of notions of interpretation, creative arts research and the performer – recording method nexus. Cat Hope talked to them about the collaborative process between ‘technicians’ and musicians, and the possibilities for sound colour from within the studio.

Stephen and Paul’s presentation is available here as a pdf. And for more of Paul Draper’s ideas see his blog, Proximity Effect

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Create World is the place
Tim Landauer (Edith Cowan University) talks to Cat Hope in the middle of the noisy networking going on at a coffee break at Creaate World … everyone is obviously engaged with and enjoying the conference. Tim has just walked out of the Emmerson Draper presentation and explains why he thinks Create World is the perfect place for this sort of collaboration.

(By the way, if you want to see this in a bit more detail a medium res version of the presentation (mp4, 105MB) is also available. Alternatively see it frame by frame, with comments, on Gary Hayes Flickr site.)

In this podcast episode Cat Hope talks to Jenny about potential problems with Second Life as a learning platform. Do students just want these sorts of systems for their own social networking purposes, and not for formal learning? What are some tips for those trying to set up these networked environments in their own university? Do virtual environments like Second Life draw students out of real life tutorial scenarios and into an asocial, virtual realm?

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Managing Change to Second Life
Inspired by Jenny’s presentation, Catherine Duncan (University of Ballarat) and Malcom Riddoch (Edith Cowan University) had a wide-ranging chat with Allan Carrington, starting out with some reflections on Second Life.

OK, so lots of kids love it, so lots of adults love it too, and so families can sit around getting quality creative time together. But is it educational, or can it be adapted usefully to educational, especially higher educational, purposes? … Well, we might have to wait a while to get a definitive answer on that one. As Caryl Shaw, Online Producer for Spore, and a keynote speaker at Create World 2008, points out in this podcast episode, it is early days yet; good educational applications can take 12 months or so to emerge, and, after all, the game wasn’t designed primarily as an educational tool.

In the meantime, the debate within the teaching and learning community is beginning to heat up, with some commentators hailing Spore’s huge educational potential, while others express some serious concerns about just what kind of science the game may be communicating.

Find out more about Spore in this interview with Caryl Shaw, and get the real inside story.

And for a broader overview of the whole Games & Education interface, this Futurelab site on Games & Learning is probably not a bad place to start.

OK all you frustrated Brian Enos sitting at home alone with a hard disk full of lonely Garage Band files that no-one else will ever rock along to, its time to come out of the closet, get connected and get jamming with the world. Jam2Jam is an exciting new piece of networked interactive software, brilliantlly demonstrated by Steve Dillon and Andrew Brown (Australasian CRC for Interaction Design) in a live online collaboration at Create World 2008, and designed to bring out your inner DJ, or even VJ perhaps, by enabling you to jam along live with other users.

The great thing about this software is that you don’t need to have joint PhDs in digital composition and software development to make it work. You can control it visually, intuitively, and you don’t really need much musical background at all. So its not just for professionals; indeed, the current version of the software is designed specifically for school-age children – have a look at it at work in a primary school setting in this YouTube video:

Cat Hope spoke to Steve and Andrew after their performance, finding out a bit more about what Jam2Jam offers users across different musical genres and cultures and about its pedagogical context.

Jam2Jam software development was partially funded by the AUC as part of their grants programme . The AUC has further supported the project by lending hardware for workshops with children. This facility is open to all AUC member universities.

Jenny Munday (Charles Sturt University) chose iWeb as the platform for her incoming Bachelor of Education students to map their learning journey, the resulting web pages functioning not only as a record of educational growth, but also as a CV for prospective employers.

So why iWeb, a Mac only application with, compared say to Dreamweaver, restricted customisation options? Listen to this episode and find out ….

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The importance of being earmarked

In this podcast episode Brett Murray (WAAPA, Edith Cowan University) talks to us about the crafting of an interactive theatre piece. What were the challenges involved in creating music from an ‘interactive set’? Indeed, what is an ‘interactive set’? And why did Brett decide to work this way, and how did the creative team respond to working in an indeterminate environment where randomness was such a key issue? Listen to this episode and find out ….

At Create World 2008 Stephen Atherton (Apple) put iTunesU through its paces in a session which posed the question ‘Why should Australasian universities and academics adopt iTunesU?’. That was a question which drew lots and lots of responses, some of them long and detailed, but which mostly boiled down to ‘We’d be mad not to’.

Now we try to maintain a critical edge in this podcast program, but scour the audience as we might for iTunesU cynics, we turned up no-one. iTunesU clearly has a solid fan base amongst Create World delegates, many of whom, including our interviewer Kate Foy, already regularly pick up on the public iTunesU offerings from top US universities. They all reckon that iTunesU is a pretty neat way of getting all sorts of multi-media program material out to students. Its elegant, effective, user-friendly. Its the same familiar interface that students use to access their music and entertainment. And the cost to the hosting institution is almost negligible.

In this podcast episode Lorraine Harker (Flinders University) and Kate Foy get quite excited together about iTunesU. Lorraine does have one bone to pick though – she wants iTunes to be available for Linux and Solaris operating systems as well. (Well at least we found one criticism!).

This is Apple’s own Introduction to iTunesU:

And a simple google search will turn up plenty of people who are pretty happy with whats on offer at iTunesU. This one is typical.

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Second Life and Arts Education

Jason Zagami (Griffith University) has been investigating online 3D virtual environments and their potential as learning spaces, and he and his team have just completed a study into the effectiveness of Second Life in training of a group of pre-service primary school teachers. In the study Second Life was used to support the development of primary school arts education, focusing specifically on the Queensland Education Department’s key learning areas of dance, drama, media, music, and visual arts.

Which key areas do you think responded most positively to exploration through Second Life? Have a listen to this podcast episode – the results that have emerged from testing might surprise you.

A number of universities and tertiary insitutions in Australia have bought real estate in Second Life and are delivering programs in that virtual space. The growing interest in the platform is reflected in the fact that at the recent ASCILITE 2008 conference there were three papers on it, by Muldoon et al (USQ), Butler & White (QUT), and Saeed et al (Swinburne).

John Lester, of Linden Labs, developers of Second Life, is reported as saying that it “gives both students and faculty a new medium for exploring things like distance learning, experiential learning, simulation, and scientific visualization in a fundamentally collaborative environment.” For those interested in following up further on Second Life educational applications, Jeremy Kemp’s SimTeach site, which covers a range of multi-user virtual environments, might prove useful.

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Reflecting on Second Life

Deirdre Russell Bowie (University of Western Sydney) & Mark Foster (University of NSW) were at Jason’s talk, curious to find out more about Second Life. During the presentation Deirdre suggested conducting a follow-up study that might compare the learning outcomes of students who studied in virtual space to those of conventionally taught students. And in this commentary, Deirdre and Mark discuss whether virtual space students will get sufficient experience in the real world practice of such skills as singing and dancing to be able to actually teach them; it has to do with confidence, they say. They also offer other reflections on the platform, and formulate a range of interesting questions for further investigation.

Listen to the Episode: The vanishing bass

Malcolm Riddoch and Cat Hope (Edith Cowan University) believe that bass is an inherently embodied experience, and that bass heard through earbuds – no matter how grunty you might think it is – is merely a pale imitation of the real thing. Bass, they say, is both spatial and sensory; you feel it through your bones, you sense it on your skin, as much as you process it through your ears.

So they are concerned that predominantly and persistently listening to music through earbuds might just cause us to stop paying attention to this bottom end of the musical spectrum. This is not of course because bass is disappearing from our acoustic environment in general. Indeed at the movies, at concerts, via your lounge room sub-woofer, or booming out from hotted up boganmobiles, there is clearly plenty of doof-doof to be had.

But, according to Malcolm and Cat, its not a matter of whats out there, its more a matter of what we teach ourselves, consciously or unconsciously, to pay attention to. This is a phenomenon known as neural retuning. Malcolm expands on that notion in this podcast episode. There is no added bass in this episode, by the way, though there were lots of big fat notes being played behind Malcolm’s live Create World 2008 presentation.

Find out more about music and neuroscience generally at the Tuning the Brain for Music website, and read an overview of the topic in this article in Nature.

Listen to the Episode: Topology: the music of speech

Topology are interested, amongst many other things, in the musicality of speech, and at Create World 2008 four members of the the group – John Babbage, Christa Powell, Bernard Hoey and Robert Davidson – rammed home to us how powerful the music-speech connection could be with a series of pieces blending video, digital speech audio and wonderfully accomplished live performance on good old fashioned analogue instruments. They started off with this number, incorporating the famous Martin Luther King speech:

Not so surprising perhaps that a great orator like Martin Luther King should be so amenable to musical interpretation (and presumably only Topology’s preference for historical rather than contemporary speech is preventing them from doing something similar with Obama). But what about something more home grown for us Australians? Gough Whitlam after the dismissal perhaps, on the steps of Parliament House? Not at all musical you think? Well, try listening to the following sample, you might change your mind. (For more of this, go to Topology’s The Big Decision website.)

Well may we say (click player buttons to play, pause or stop)

After their exhilarating Create World performance, Topology discussed their work with Allan Carrington. They talked a bit about the speech, intonation and music nexus, but they also enlarged on the role of music in human life generally, seeing music as opening us up to senses and feelings in ways that complement our thinking selves and help to make us fully human.

Listen to the Episode:
Podcast Producer

The workshop description makes the claim that, "Podcast Producer is a … complete, end-to-end solution for encoding, publishing, and distributing high-quality podcasts or indeed general media files. As part of Mac OS X Server, it is an ideal solution to simplify the process of recording content, encoding, and publishing podcasts for playback in iTunes.". Sisira Lokuge (Edith Cowan University) and Luke Haber (Southern Cross University) were there and Allan Carrington asked them whether Podcast Producer indeed lived up to the hype.

There are some interesting and helpful sites on this software:

Listen to the Episode: Tuning in to UNSWTV

Many of us looked on with envy at Mark Foster and Tom Cavdarovski’s Create World 08 presentation. Their institution, the University of New South Wales, seems to have it all: a growing multi-medi-savvy community of educators, YouTube channels, iTunes U, and – coming soon to a plasma screen near you – UNSWTV, a one-stop shop media delivery system that will provide you with access to all your multi-media files, irrespective of format, through a simple browser interface.

But it hasn’t come easy. The UNSW team have worked hard to build up the multi-media community, and the decision to post material on YouTube could not have been an easy one, with most other universities in the country seeing the associated copyright and content control issues as too hard to deal with. Mark and Tom speak to us about their experiences in this podcast. Get your iTunes to open up the UNSW iTunesU site through: itms://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/unsw.edu.a In addition there are three UNSW YouTube channels: unsw, unswcommunity and unswelearning. Find the elearning channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/unswelearning Here is a randomly chosen example of what you might see there:

But over on the unsw channel, the production values are very much slicker!

Participants Comments

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If you build it on video will they still come face-to-face?

Michael Cunningham (Curtin University of Technology) and Wanda De Verille-Hill (Southern Cross University ) discuss the implications for their universities of taking on something like UNSWTV, reflecting on how the very nature of IP is changing and how academics might change as a consequence. They also have some very interesting questions to ask about digital technologies in learning and teaching. For example, if you record your lectures on video, do students stop coming along to the live sessions? And what happens to all those digital artifacts you put out there in the internet – do they survive out there like orbiting cyber-space junk, only to come crashing down years later to embarrass you with their amateurishness and naivete? What can be done to address this? Listen to this episode and add your voice to the discussion on the Comment Board.

Listen to the Episode: Games Without Pain

At Create World 2008 Shane Henderson and Mark McMahon (Edith Cowan University) lead a hands-on workshop on the 3D game engine Sauerbraten, an open source first person shooter game that allows for "inworld" editing, with no background in programming, artwork, or game development required.

Cat Hope spoke to Shane during the workshop, looking to the potential of the platform outside of the gaming realm and at ways to break out from gaming’s standard ’shooter’ and ‘monster’ models. Shane sees Sauerbraten as much more than a game – to him it is an enabling space which eliminates techno-barriers and empowers creativity.

Participants comments
Listen to the commentary: Gaming … Consider the Possibilities!

Luke Toop (University of Adelaide) also has some interesting ideas about Sauerbraten, and in this commentary talks to Kate Foy about its educational uses. Luke emphasise the importance of a modifiable environment, pointing to the fact that some old games continue to be used simply because they can be modified. Barbie Worlds, Romeo & Juliet, musical improvisation, the role of online collaboration – Luke and Kate range over some very different topics in this conversation. Listen to this podcast episode and see how they all fit together.

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Live performance with digital cinema

Long-time colleagues Steven Maxwell and Brad Jennings founded Markwell Presents in 2002 and are now producing cinematic performance with various dance and theatre groups in Australia. In this podcast episode they talk to us about ‘cinematic theatre’ and the challenges of seeking to blend live, embodied performance with digital media.

‘Cinematic theatre’ as a concept does not have to include digital material, though. The concept is more broadly concerned with the bringing of film theory and film aesthetics into the space of the theatre, thereby seeking to expand the theatrical experience and the range of theatrical expression. (See for example Ebrahimian 2004.) You can do this with good old fashioned analogue film, of course, but digital technologies make it that much easier and affordable.

One wonders what the knock-on educational effects of this convergence of live performance and recorded material might be. Already struggling to make your powerpoint presentations more interesting? Worried that you have too many bullet points and too few graphics? What will happen when you have to have not just slides but whole movies running on the screen behind you during your lectures? That will make a difference to your lecture preparation time, hey?

Listen to the Episode: Digital Roadmap for e-Research

Paul Turnbull (Griffith University) is a key member of the expert working group that advises the Australian government on the e-research needs of the Humanities & Social Sciences (HASS). Over the period 2005-2011 there is some $542 million being invested in research infrastructure generally, via the NCRIS initiative of the former government, so Paul’s group is keen to ensure that an appropriate slice of that pie is allocated to the needs of the HASS sector. But how does the Creative Arts fit in here? What are its research infrastructure needs, and are these needs yet on the radar of government? And if indeed there is a digital roadmap for research infrastructure, can the Creative Arts fraternity find its car keys?

Find out more about NCRIS and the 2008 roadmap at: http://ncris.innovation.gov.au
And you might also be interested in downloading Our Cultural Commonwealth, the key US report on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences, from:
www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/OurCulturalCommonwealth.pdf

Listen to the Episode: Research on Trial

Universities, it seems, want to have their cake and eat it. They like the kudos of having great creative artists on staff. But, some claim, they also want the work of these artists to be measured by the same criteria applied to assess the productivity and impact of researchers more broadly across the university. Does this make sense?

In what ways is creative practice equivalent to research, and how can it be evaluated? And what initiatives are around that may bring creative arts practice and creative arts scholarship together with different fields of university enquiry to create new research paradigms?

Mark McMahon (ECU) led a provocative panel discussion on these sorts of questions at Create World 2008, and gave us his thoughts afterwards in this podcast episode.

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Comments on Creative Arts Research

Steve Dillon (QUT) himself conducts some interesting creative arts research projects, and provided us with his own reflection on the issues canvassed at the panel session.

Stuart Medley (Edith Cowan University) seeks to understand the importance of the human visual system and its implications for represenation and graphic design. And he says that there is a paradox involved, in that we are able to communicate more accurately through less accurately rendered images.

In this podcast Stuart follows on from his Create World presentation and discusses ways to measure creative content in design that will fit in with University research metrics. How do we measure creativity in something that is functional as well as aesthetic?

You can find more about Stuart’s projects at Figures Magazine

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Listen to the commentary: On Graphic Design

Sian Carlyon and Tony Skinner were in the audience for Stuart Medley’s presentation and got quite a buzz out of it. Both Sian and Tony are from USQ, and both have a strong background in graphic design (unlike your out-of-his-depth interviewer!). We chatted to them afterwards, as the rain filtered in through the bougainvillea, about directions in graphic design and the impact of digital technologies.

Everyone knows how easy it is these days to appropriate digital material; photos, videos, sound files – just a couple of clicks and they’re yours. And just about everyone who has worked in education in recent years has been impacted upon by institutional concerns (perhaps even paranoia, some might say) about this ready thievability.

But does everyone know about Creative Commons? Thats the question we put to Elliott Bledsoe (Queensland Institute of Technology, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation) after his workshop on this topic at AUC’s CreateWorld 2008. Creative Commons is an international licensing system that enables developers/owners of digital content to set varying conditions on the re-use, development and author acknowledgement of that material. In this interview Elliott explains more about Creative Commons and talks about some of the projects he is undertaking to increase the engagement of educational communities with the concept.

Do you have any experience of Creative Commons? How might it impact on your educational practice? Listen to this podcast episode and then please add your comments to the blog.

You can also view the Creative Commons case studies.

And you can find out more about Creative Commons in Australia as well as Creative Commons internationally.

Also find a nice little 2.5 minute video, very useful for helping both teachers and students understand the creative commons concept, at About Creative Commons

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Listen to the commentary: Could it be a "renaissance of creativity"?

Jenny Lane and Stephen Johnston (Edith Cowan University) were part of the Creative Commons workshop. They talk to us about the relevance of Creative Commons to educational settings, and consider the challenges for Professional Development in this area. Stephen believes that history will look back on this emergence of creative commons as a "renaissance of creativity", as the focus of upcoming generations shifts from individual ownership to a sense of managed, shared intelligence …. could he be right?

The aim of these short interviews is not just to summarise or rehash the presentations, but rather to talk around them a bit, to see them in their broader context, and to tease out their implications for learning, teaching, research and creative performance in higher education.

We hope you enjoy these podcast episodes. But please don’t just listen. Make sure you also add your ideas and comments to this blog. Connect with your colleagues. Be part of the conference wisdom.