FFotW: La Rochelle

Vieux Port - France (La Rochelle), originally uploaded by Chez Julius.

Wouldn't you love to hone your French language skills in beautiful La Rochelle?

Well, you can! La Rochelle is one of our many Study Abroad opportunities at CofC. Contact Dr. Tefo Attafi for details. Dr. Attafi will be giving an information session on the upcoming trip on Wednesday, October 21 at 3:00 pm in the main classroom of the Language Resource Center, ECTR 225.

Thanks to Julius Singara, Chez Julius on Flickr, for sharing this great picture of the port's two towers with a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license (meaning he asks, please give him attribution if you use the photo, and please make no commercial or derivative uses of the image).

Flickr Find of the Week: Isabel Allende and the Dalai Lama

Isabel Allende and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, originally uploaded by Bill Liao.

For our first Flickr Find of the Week this semester, how would you have like to have dinner with Chilean writer Isabel Allende and the Dalai Lama? As with all FFofW images, this great pic is shared with a Creative Commons license, this one by Bill Liao. A CC license is a type of copyright by which the creator declares his or her wish that their work be shared openly. Thanks, Bill!

Those of you who attended our Welcome Week celebration got to watch and discuss Allende's Tales of Passion TED Talk. If you weren't there, catch up on what you missed below. TED shares our commitment to the open exchange of ideas!

Flickr FotW: Strasbourg

Rainy Strasbourg - La Petite France, originally uploaded by MorBCN.

For the first week of the Spring 09 semester, let's take a view of Strasbourg in Alsace. Check out all the languages in the comments on the Flickr photo page (just click the image to go to its original page on Flickr).

As with last week and all Flickr Finds of the Week, this a Creative Commons licensed image, free for you to use and share under certain conditions prescribed by the copyright holder, in this case Flickr user MorBCN of Barcelona.

I was ready to repeat my "What is Creative Commons?" spiel, but I think our Catelan friend has summed it up quite well in his profile:

I like to photograph anything

I'm not copyrighting my pictures. I don't believe in copyright. I think that copyright is a bad thing for culture in the digital age and for sharing knowledge and creations… I use Creative Commons: some rights reserved. My pictures are licensed using Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

In short: you can use my pictures for non comercial purposes, and you must atribute my pictures to me with a link to the original picture or my flickr photostream.

My pictures are not free. Read carefully the following description of the cases when you can use it, and what to do:

Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You can use or print any of my pictures for personal use, in your blog, your web-page or your kitchen. If you want to use it commercially, send me an e-mail, and we will have a deal.

Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor. Then, you must attribute any of my pictures to "Mor (bcnbits)" and make a link to this page or a link to the original picture. If you drop me an email would be nice.

Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.

So enjoy, and use this picture and any of MorBCN's others in class! He has great photos from all over Europe!

Flickr Find of the Week: Tegucigalpa

Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Originally uploaded by Fellowship of the Rich

We'd like to welcome faculty and staff back with a new feature: the Flickr Find of the Week. We'll be posting images showcasing language and culture from around the world, all found the best photo sharing and commenting website: Flickr. As if the wealth of contact available through Flickr's shared images isn't enough, each Flickr Find of the Week post will be found through the Creative Commons "some rights reserved" search. That means all the copyright holders of these images are putting their pictures up for sharing. Check out Creative Commons to learn more about alternative approaches to copyright, or just to find media that users are willing to share for your class and projects.

Our first FFotW is this beautiful shot of Tegucigalpa. We found this simply by searching for "Tegucigalpa" using the Creative Commons feature on Flickr's Advanced Search. This picture was posted by Flickr user Rich Evenhouse with a BY-NC-ND Creative Commons license, meaning it is free to use as long as Rich is attributed, it is not used commercially and no derivative works are based on it. But it's free to use for educational purposes in your class by good old Fair Use.