I thought the use of Web 2.0 Storytelling from the higher education section could be very useful in the classroom if professors were able to supplement their lectures with the various forms of storytelling online.  Professors can use different digital stories to help support or add to the material covered.  Also with comments available and links to other pages, it could allow others to view, comment, and expand on the content.  I did not realize the amount of different types of digital stories that are posted online from Video Mashups to the Twitter form (140 character microstories) to blogposts and podcasts.

The idea of Creative Commons, allowing users to gain more access to the content, without breaching copyright laws is a good idea.  Copyright laws have been an all or nothing approach in the past (either it has strict “all rights reserved” or its open for public consumption). The Creative Commons approach allows users to still gain access to more information and share it (without worrying about the copyright lawes that go along with it) while protecting most importantly, protecting the ideas of the original person who wanted to share their thoughts.  In this digital age, anyone can find almost anything online and the thought of privacy is almost gone.  Allowing users to gain access with the Creative Commons approach, still protects those original thinkers because the user will find a way to gather the information, legally or illegally.