Ever been in a space shuttle or hung out at an internet café?
Well, now’s your chance. Buckle your seatbelts, because the learningcommons team, in partnership with the Shuttleworth Foundation, has created a vivid, exciting multimedia curriculum pilot project for grade 9 technology learners!

Entitled Copyright and left: A multimedia curriculum on copy rights and responsibilities in South Africa, this cross-platform, Flash-based materials offer a glimpse into the history of copyright, the impact of copyright and technology on local culture and indigenous knowledge, and new alternatives to copyright that enable you to freely copy and redistribute royalty-free content on the internet.

Launched this week, the learningcommons team (a collective headed up by Heather Ford, Creative Commons SA project lead) is thrilled with the response to the materials. We’ve just heard from Derek Keats of the University of the Western Cape that the materials will be used to introduce staff to the issues of open source and open content in South Africa. In addition, OpenLab has just announced that the curriculum will be incorprated into the latest edition of their EduKar product, a leading educational solution for African schools.

EduKar is the educational content solution OpenLab’s GNU/Linux platform. The DVD consists of over 70+ platform-neutral applications, tools and content including a content management solution (KEWL), Wikipedia LITE version, the Gutenberg Library LITE version, containing over 600 books, and eduCOMIX, a set of pdf comix from Strika Entertainment, covering Road Safety, teenage Issues eg HIV/AIDS, and HaiTi!, the definitive SchoolNet / OpenLab resource guide.

Go to learningcommons now to download your copy. Sarah and Dube are waiting for you!

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