For the last couple of weeks I’ve been playing with the Fridge I blogged about the other day.
I was feeling pretty please with myself until I got a DM for Eric earlier this (UK) evening. He noticed that the dolch list on the screenshot of the webpage I had made was pretty much the same one he had used on an activity he had made and blogged about: Control Alt Achieve: Wintertime Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings.…
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The weeks are flying by. I was hoping to backtrack on a few things this week but Week Six. Copyright, OERs and Creative Commons – 23 Things popped into my inbox and thing 11 is quite timely.
I’ve blogged here about copyright quite a bit, but it is a constantly interesting subject.…
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…Top / Featured Image: A mashup of many random Monopoly game parts found on The Google (images search). Most were not openly licensed, and I freely admit taking them to remix into something new and commercially unviable. I am so guilty of theft.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...As part of the week 1 of P2PU Why Open? course participants were invited to join David Wiley on a google hangout (Why Open session with David Wiley). I could not make the live stream so have just finished watching the archive.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...My friend @robwall sent me this tweet a couple of days ago:
@courosa Does the pic in this article look familiar? (Buy I didn't see any attribution) http://t.co/NUrWFHVeu3
— Rob Wall (@robwall) August 31, 2013
The image that (currently) previews in that tweet isn’t the original photo that was posted to this Ars Technica article.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I have a confession to make. I’m … a Millennial. I grew up with the internet, I learned how to use AOL as a kid, I have had private email since I was ten years old, and I can maintain 4-5 separate chats like a boss.…
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I must say it got my princess hormones all a flutter.
But then I started wondering…would it perform the same way? What if it was impossible to clean? Would people visit my kitchen just to see it?…
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While I am absolutely loving my experience with ETMOOC, I am about to try my first run at an xMOOC. Tomorrow, I will begin a HarvardX course, HLS1x: Copyright. I am excited.
Copyright is a topic that I have been chasing on my own for a few years now and one where I think that educators must have greater command.…
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Our monthly “Key Instructional Contact” meeting had a guest speaker this month. Nancy Sims, from the University of Minnesota Library System spoke on Copyright in the K-12 Classroom. Group Meeting Notes can be found here.
Sims is a lawyer and Librarian.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve been discussing memes such as Gangnam Style in my recent presentations. I’m particularly interested in memes as an emerging information literacy and their study is important for comprehending the way in which information flows through systems. Dae Ryun Chang wrote that one of reasons why Gangnam Style has taken off is that “the song intentionally lacked a copyright so that people would be encouraged to create their own online parodies, in essence their own ‘XYZ Style’”.…
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