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title: "A Post on Remixing that bears repeating."
date: 2009-02-21
url: https://learningischange.com/2009/02/21/a-post-on-remixing-that-bears-repeating/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# A Post on Remixing that bears repeating.

I am sitting in a session at Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation on Remixing in the classroom and I was drawn back to an activity that I did with my kids to teach them about remixing. I think that it allowed them to own the topic in a way that telling them the rules does not. Does this activity still work?

*  Write-on: Create the following diagram on a piece of paper (or computer if your prefer… Notebook or Word would probably be quickest) to show your*

*      opinions of what should and should not be allowed of the following*

*      remixing or mashup situations:*

*
*

*Isn’t Illegal Is Illegal*

*Should be Illegal*

*Shouldn’t be Illegal*

*
*

*   1. Creating a collage using a famous piece of art and some of your own drawings.*

*   2. Hacking someone’s computer game and making it better then selling it.*

*   3. Taking someone’s direct quote from a book without citing it.*

*   4. Taking someone’s ideas from a book and listing them as one of your biggest influences in the bio.*

*   5. Using two pieces of different music to make a new one.*

*   6. Creating a replica of a building in Google Sketch-up.*

*   7. Creating a parody of the latest blockbuster film and putting it up on [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/).*

*   8. Typing out a chapter of someone’s book and putting links to pictures of all of the places it mentions.*

*   9. Taking the beat or melody of a famous song and looping it to create*

*      something new to sing or rap over, without asking for permission to use*

*      the sample.*

*  10. Using a well known movie clip, and dubbing you and your friends*

*      making up funny, rude comments over top of it so that it looks like*

*      they are saying what you want them to.*

*
*

*Discuss each situation with your neighbors when you are finished.*

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*    * Use the these definitions and*[real life situations](http://del.icio.us/bhwilkoff/RemixCulture)*and in order to complete your 30-minute-expert blogging session on the following debatable topic: Solved: Any idea or work that you create should be able to be remixed, modified, and repackaged for the purposes of another person.*

[Also, if you are interested, here is the podcast that my students did with their debate after this activity.](/2007/03/28/the-great-remix-debate/)

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