Category: intellectualproperty
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Create a Personal Publication Archive with Open Journal Systems (OJS)
A couple years ago I started looking for a free content management system I could use to archive and share publications I’ve written in my educational career. Since I’ve used WordPress extensively to publish content online, I was first drawn to “Annotum: an open-source, open-process, open-access scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress.” I…
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Small Museums, Libraries and Archives: Advocating to Preserve Community Heritage
Susan Feller is a friend who works with the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma Cultural Heritage Trust and the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. She alerted me that the Oklahoma Cultural Heritage Trust is hosting a free, face-to-face opportunity to attend an online webinar with others in downtown Oklahoma City on Wednesday, December…
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eBook Self-Publishing with Amazon, CreateSpace & iTunes Producer
This past Saturday (September 21, 2013) I shared a breakout session at the “Write Well, Sell Well Conference” for authors in Oklahoma City titled, “eBook Self-Publishing with Amazon, CreateSpace & iTunes Producer.” I recorded the session and synchronized that audio to my slides on SlideShare to create a SlideCast of my presentation. This means you…
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Academic Journal Paywalls are Educationally Counter-Productive and WRONG
The proliferation of “paywalls” for academic journals is educationally counter-productive and WRONG. Today, we accept as “normal” that academic journals charge fees for digital access. In an analog world, when publishers bore tangible costs for distributing paper-based copies of articles, this made more sense. In our increasingly digital world today, however, when the marginal cost…
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Parody Fest: Goodnight Goon, Dune, Forest Moon, iPad, Democracy & More
Our family members have been fans of “Goodnight Moon” (by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd) for many years. Prior to Christmas last year, I learned about David Milgrim’s clever “Goodnight iPad” book, which he wrote under the psyudonum “Ann Droyd.” There are several other creative parodies of “Goodnight Moon” available in print,…
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Google Play eBooks, Copyright, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
This afternoon our family made the 6 hour trek on I-27 and I-40 back to Oklahoma City from Lubbock, Texas, and my eight year old ran out of chapter books to read about halfway home. In this post, I’ll describe how we discovered a developmentally-appropriate, free eBook to download on an iPad and some of…
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Open Access Crimes
Academic research should be openly accessible to all. Many commercial publishers as well as professional organizations have hijacked academic publishing for corporate and organizational gain. These practices must end. These practices constitute open access crimes. The Max Planck Society offers a helpful definition of “open access” in this context: In the scientific sphere, the term…
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iBooks Not Working on Jailbroken iPhones: Here’s the Fix
This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus. If you have a jailbroken iPhone or other iOS device, you may have noticed the iBooks application was “broken” with the latest 5.0.1 jailbreak software. Other bloggers have noted this isn’t new: Apple intentionally broke iBooks for jailbreakers using the 4.2.1 exploit in 2011. Before you say,…
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Save and Transfer YouTube Videos to an iPad
(Cross-posted from iPadWithWes.com) Sometimes, to teach a class, its can be helpful to save a local, temporary copy of a YouTube video to your computer and transfer it to an iPad. Then the iPad can play the video from its “Photo Roll” without being connected to the Internet. This is especially helpful in places where…
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Can You Do That? Legal Issues in Tech Administration #otaem12
These are my notes from Colin Webb (Noble Public Schools) and Glen Hammonds’ (State Attorney General’s Office) presentation at the February 7, 2012 Oklahoma Technology Association / Encycl-Media Conference titled, “Can You Do That? Legal Issues in Tech Administration.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. First from hearing from Colin Webb: today we’ll…