Category: intellectualproperty
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Balancing Open and Closed Web Publishing
As educators we should be advocates for “open web publishing.” Open web publishing is sharing content on the Internet’s World Wide Web which does NOT require a login or password to access. “Closed web publishing” is sharing digital content online which is password protected. There are good reasons to interactively share content on the closed…
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Voices of #iste11 – Copyright Advice for Teachers from Kristin Hokansen
Equipped as a storychaser with my iPad2, a $60 iRig mic, and the help of friends (as well as some bystanders) willing to be short-term videographers, I’ve recorded a series of interviews this week here in Philadelphia for the 2011 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. This third episode is an interview with…
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Open Educational Resources: Share, Remix, Learn #iste11
These are my notes from Karen Fasimpaur’s session, “Open Educational Resources: Share, Remix, Learn” at the 2011 ISTE conference. Resources from Karen’s session are on http://www.k12opened.com/wiki/index.php/Iste2011. Open Educational Resources: Share, Remix, Learn (v4) View more presentations from Karen F Creative Commons has had a HUGE impact on the work I do, helping teachers accomplish their…
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The iTunes Album Which Was Lost Is Found!
In the fall of 2007 I traveled to Muskogee, Oklahoma, to share one of ten seminars around our state about the E-Rate program for my employer at the time, AT&T. While staying at my hotel, I purchased and downloaded Juan Luis Guerra‘s album, “La Llave de me Corazon” directly to my iPhone over local wifi.…
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YouTube Now Supports Creative Commons BY Video Licensing #playingwithmedia
Today when I uploaded a new screencast to YouTube, I noticed a new menu option for YouTube video sharers: Creative Commons BY (attribution-only) licensing! This is great news, since it will open the door to more opportunities for legal remixing of YouTube video content and more chances to play with media! If you are not…
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Using Copyright-friendly Images Effectively in Presentations
Yesterday on April 25, 2011, I shared a workshop for faculty and staff at Western Oklahoma State College in Altus titled, “Using Copyright-friendly Images Effectively in Presentations.” The recorded audio from this workshop is available in two parts on my secondary “Fuel for Educational Change Agents” podcast channel. (part 1 and part 2) Referenced resources…
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Terms of Service Agreements Users Don’t Read
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- Support Open Access Publishing!
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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Creative Commons licensed images in blog posts
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,…