Angus Ferguson

I would like to share this course that I found on the MERLOT II, open educational resource platform. It is a course created originally by Prof. Thomas Herring of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It contains lecture notes, assignments and course materials for a course in Celestial Navigation. It is available through a Creative Commons attribution-non commercial - share alike licence. 12.215 Modern Navigation : This course introduces the concepts and applications of navigation techniques using celestial bodies and satellite positioning systems such as the Glo

To complete this 'Thing' I completed  the Wikipedia  adventure and explored Wikimedia. I have a much better  understanding  of what Wikipedia  is and how it works. Before  completing this task I was highly sceptical of the reliability of the content. I would need more time before I would feel  confident about editing or adding content. Wikipedia has been  very  useful to me sourcing content to use in material that doesn't infringe copyright

Despite having to prepare presentations and create materials for students I have to confess it is only fairly recently that I have taken a real interest in the area of copyright. Despite this in the past I have spent too much time trawling the internet for the best possible image or trying to create my own material which is very time consuming. I am currently writing a course on Celestial Navigation and use of a sextant. Using http://search.creativecommons.org/  link I quickly found two images which could easily be incorporated. The first was an image of a sextant published on Wikimedia Commons and created by Joaquim Alves Gaspar, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marine_sextant.svg The second was also on Wikimedia Commons and this shows the Celestial Sphere   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARa_and_dec_on_celestial_sphere.png  By Tfr000 (talk) 15:34, 15 June 2012 (UTC) (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 ) or GFDL ( http:/