Science 2.0

Great article, “Science 2.0—Is Open Access Science the Future?”, from Scientific American about the move toward more open science from several different quarters. One example comes from scientists at MIT, who have created a wiki for sharing lab data and more at OpenWetWare.

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Psychology Research in Second Life

In the June APS Observer, Jillian Sherwin writes about research in the 3-D virtual world Second Life:
Peter Yellowlees, professor of psychiatry and director of academic information systems at the University of California, Davis, uses Second Life to simulate schizophrenic hallucinations. . . . Yellowlees interviewed three schizophrenic patients and recorded information about their specific hallucinations. [...]

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On Technology and Teaching: “A Brain and A Book”

James Lang, in a Chronicle of Higher Education column, “A Brain and a Book,” takes up Marc Prenksy’s “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants.”
Lang presents the premise on which Prensky’s conclusions are based:
The title pretty much says it all: Our students are digital natives who have grown up in the land of technology and know no other [...]

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A Fair(y) Use Tale

Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.

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A Lesson in Viral Video

Last Wednesday, Michael Wesch was one of thousands of Internet users to add material to the video-sharing site YouTube. He posted a five-minute clip, set to techno music, that helps explain Web 2.0 — the so-called second wave of Web-based services that enables people to network and aggregate information online.
Read more at Inside HigherEd.

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