Your “digital footprint” online can include many different kinds of digital activities. These can not only include updates to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, photos posted and “tagged” online, and websites authored by you, but also DOCUMENTS you author which are posted online. These documents can include hidden “evidence” you created a document,
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When lawyers create extensively long documents which can have a significant impact on the lives of others, yet the documents themselves are too complex and long for “regular folks” to read and understand, something is amiss. That was the case with the 2010 health care legislation in the United States, which was over 2000 pages
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Academic journals should not have paywalls. Academic publishing is done for many reasons, but high among those should be the desire to share ideas in the “commons” of information so others can both learn from and build on those ideas. Forcing others to PAY to simply read your ideas when they are formally published in
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Q: How can we find and use Creative Commons licensed images in our blog posts for class? A: I created a 4 minute screencast answering this question. The links I referenced are Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-Online Search, Wylio.com, Compfight.com, and TalkWithMedia.com’s Images page. Cross-posted to the T4T Course FAQ and TalkWithMedia.com. Technorati Tags: blog, images,
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If you ever have an opportunity to attend one of the conferences or workshops sponsored by The Martin Institute in Memphis, Tennessee, definitely go! This past September at their conference, educators in attendance won FIVE brand new Apple iPads along with several Flip Video cameras as door prizes. Now that’s what you call Christmas in
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If you or someone you know contributed a document to ERIC (the “Education Resources Information Center” sponsored by the US Department of Education) which is “currently available only in microfiche,” please complete or have that individual complete the contact form available on the “ERIC Microfiche Digitization Project” webpage. According to the site: ERIC has electronically
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Instead of sharing the longer, 6+ minute Creative Commons video “Get Creative” during my “Trends in Higher Education” presentation tomorrow at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma, I’m planning to share the 2.5 minute (180 second) video, “What is Creative Commons? Wanna Work Together RG Remix.” This video provides a great summary of Creative
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This podcast is a recording of an unconference session at the Learning 2.010 Conference in Shanghai, China, on September 18, 2010. The focus of our session was different techniques for saving online videos from websites like YouTube, Vimeo, etc. to your local computer’s hard drive. This skill is important for teachers and librarians wanting to
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Podcast357: Options for Saving and Trimming Online Video to Your Local Hard Drive [ 47:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1685)Nick Pittsinger, a “20-year-old aspiring music producer in Florida” (according to Damon Brown writing for CNN) has used software to slow down Justin Bieber’s single “U SMILE” eight times and republished his remix on Soundcloud as “U SMILE 800% SLOWER.” Pittsinger’s song version was highlighted on Gawker last week, and to date the song has
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Yesterday’s post, “Optimize iTunes import settings for audio book CDs,” addressed the technical aspects of importing audiobooks from CD to digital formats. Today we’ll briefly address some of the copyright and licensing issues which are raised by this importing / encoding / ripping process for audiobooks. photo credit: jc.westbrook It’s important to be aware copyright
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Limewire is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing program, often utilized to illegally download music and movies online. According to the English Wikipedia: LimeWire uses the gnutella network and also the BitTorrent protocol. A free software version and a purchasable “enhanced” version are available. The software is developed by Lime Wire LLC, which is a subsidiary
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Week 1 of the 2010 iConnect, iLearn Conference came to an end today in Colby, Kansas. Next week the conference moves to Salina, Kansas. These are the session resources from the morning’s keynote and two breakout sessions I shared. I did record audio for the keynote, and may share that later as a podcast and
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The video “A Fair(y) Use Tale” was created in 2007 by Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University to illustrate key concepts of U.S. copyright law, exclusively using short clips from copyrighted Disney movies. The full video is 10 minutes, 14 seconds long. This is a VERY clever as well as memorable way to encounter key
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Kent Brooks, the director of technology at Western Oklahoma State College (WOSC) out in Altus, wrote a great post on his Ning last week following an Adobe connect brainstorming session called, “Open Content, Peer Production and Creativity, STEM and School Culture Transformation in Oklahoma.” This built on the ideas in my post, “Let’s build openly
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This week I’ll be brainstorming with other Oklahoma educators working on a Race To The Top (RTTT) federal grant application. When it comes to technology integration and STEM, one of the best ideas I can suggest is providing opportunities for teachers to build digital curriculum together. If these online curriculum materials are published on the
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Earlier this week I was contacted by Dave Winter in Hamilton, New Zealand, via a Skype-forwarded voicemail. Dave wanted to visit about Google Sites and how we’ve used it to configure our project wiki for Celebrate Oklahoma Voices. This morning I got on Skype and was able to visit “live” with Dave briefly before he
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Controversy continues to brew over Apple’s ability to “gatekeep” applications which are or are not approved in the official App Store for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Writing for TechCrunch yesterday in the article, “Steve Jobs Reiterates: ‘Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone,’” MG Siegler cites an alleged email from Steve
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Open education, open educational resources, and open source software should be household names. I just finished watching David Wiley‘s TEDxNYED talk on YouTube via my iPad, and I am inspired as a result. I loved his image of the 2 year old having a tantrum, and comparing that to our tendency as educators and citizens
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The English WikiPedia defines “blog scraping” as: …the process of scanning through a large number of blogs, usually daily, searching for and copying content. This process is conducted through automated software. The software and the individuals who run the software are sometimes referred to as blog scrapers. Scraping is copying a blog that is not
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Let’s hear it for innovative ways to help students get more excited about reading… AND… the legal, transformative remixing of copyrighted works like the song, “I’ve Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas! The five minute YouTube video, “Gotta Keep Reading,” was created by students and staff at Ocoee Middle School, working with college students
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