Creative Commons

It is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
They have a free and easy-to-use copyright licenses. But this is not an alternative to copyright. It only enable you to modify your copyright terms to best suit your needs. This licenses provide a standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creastive work on conditions you choose.
So for example, if you want to let people share and use your photographs, but not allow companies to sell them, you should  consider publishing it under a Creative Commons license. It gives you flexibility and protects the people who use your work. But not only individual creators, also large companies and institutions use this creative commons tools to keep their copyright.
It`s a good thing!!

Would you like to have a copyright licenses and why is it so important?

Basic of group dynamics

The group dynamic has a area of confict between a person, the group and the organisation. Every peron is in a group: the family, friends, at work, .... and in every group we as person act different. We and all the other groupmembers give our best and try to find the balance between our needs, so that we can be together and organised.
 There are four position a person can have in a group:
The ALPHA person is the leader of the group.
The GAMMA persons are these people who have the same opinion as the alpha person and/or want to support this alpha person.
The OMEGA persons are the restrained once. They share the opinion of the alpha person reluctantly and are unsure in everything they do.
The BETA once are the persons who don't identify themselfs with the alpha person. They are independent, have a advisory function and because of this they are potential competitors of the alpha person.

So, it is true that there are different persons in a group I think, but I don't know and don't agree, that every group has this four positions of persons. There can also be a alpha and three omegas and no beta... or what do you think?

Today I want to tell you someting about the Tuckman's Group Development Model.

There are four phrases: Forming - Storming - Norming - Performing. 
In the first phase the forming of the team takes place. Every person needs to find out what are the expectations and they are trying to give him or her best without working with the other groupmemebers. During the second phase the groupmembers get into conficts with each other because they are focused on theirselfs, they are not open minded and have different oppinions. They must find a solution and spread the work, so that they can successfully do the project. The cooperation is important in the third phase. The people talk to each other and find solutions together. Performing is the last phase where the members want to finish the project and give their top performance.
I think that in reality you do not find every phase in every groupwork, but it seems correct that working with someone needs to be practised, because people have different ideas.

I watched this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xb5spS8pmE about a new technology that should improve our learning at university. It is very interesting.
I think university nowadays provide resources that help people understand what they are learning and doing.
Surely most students are bored to be teached with this old classical methods and would be more interested if the lectures and teachers would give their best to offer us the best they can AND thereby using the new technologies that should be used in our education systems - the internet. It is obvious that the internet is a labyrinth of information that is almost impossible to learn from, but you can be part of it and have a look at different topics from many points of view because of the communication and exchange between other people. You get knowledge and you can add knowledge and that it is what makes it interesting to be used. So i think university should find a way to include the internet at their treaching methods.