Open Education Resources-My Summary of Learning

Here is a video summary of what I’ve learned about open educational resources and my reflections on what I’ve learned.
The linear thinker in me chose to present my learning as a progression of the 6 weeks of the OLTD 505 course along a timeline and  I settled on a tool called timetoast that allows links to other media including my blog postings, and it’s where you can view the details of my summary. 
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Is not wanting to share and share alike a bad thing?

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Photo Credit: Clint Lalonde via Compfight cc
​No one is happy to find that something they have shared freely, whether it’s a photo, a song, a story, or an idea, is being used by someone else for commercial gain without giving them any credit in words or dollars.
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Inviting Others to Join My Mapping Project

,Sooooo, the next time I opened the map all the photos were gone. I spent a lot of time figuring out how to get a URL that would work and stay working and it was in the Google Maps Help Forum that I got an answer that gave a link to a site that would convert the temporary URL into a stable one.
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Could the photographer be sued for posting this photo-card on Flickr?

Photo by Helen Haden CC BY-NC 2.0

I watched Vi Hart’s supremely articulated YouTube presentation, Happy “Happy Birthday” Day, with exasperation at how law devised to protect rights is used to infringe on them and exploit them for gain beyond the scope of its intention.

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Flickr.com

I’ve used photos I found on Flickr for some of my OLTD assignments and in my Weebly website and I’ve always given credit to the photographer in the form that was noted with the photograph, but I haven’t investigated the attribution feature.
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My Baynes Sound Shellfish Map is Growing

Yeah! This week I figured out how to get the map coordinates from a photo sent from a smart phone, and it began with a Google search of course. This will be important if the map I build doesn’t allow public input and all viewer photo submissions must pass through me or the website manager.
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From Underwater Cables to Undersea Current Power

​This story on The Weather Network surprised and amazed me. Apparently Microsoft and Facebook have teamed put a cable under the Atlantic Ocean from the US to Spain to deliver high speed internet access to Europe. And Google did the same thing under the Pacific Ocean in 2014 in association with some Asian companies.
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The case of a semi-open-access academic journal

I began reading Dana Boyd’s article “open-access is the future: boycott locked-down academic journals” with skepticism because I couldn’t imagine how a journal could be published freely considering the cost of editing and printing. I knew most of the reviewing was carried out voluntarily by people working in or retired from the field but I hadn’t realized that so much of the editing was also done by volunteers.
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Week 3: Maps, Maps, and More Maps

​I began my third week of learning about GIS mapping by finding that when I forwarded a photo from my phone to me email account I lost the map coordinates noted in the details, so I went back to the internet to find an app that would allow my phone to act as a GPS and I found one called GPS Coordinates by Woozilli available through the Google Play function on my Google Nexus phone.
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