Lots of folks are encouraged and stoked by the new DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) exemptions (aka “Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works”) recently released by the Library of Congress and announced in a press release. Over at Profhacker, Kathleen Fitzpatrick reports: The exemption on [...]
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Free the (Digital) Media
Posted in copyright, education, fair use, technology on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive
Posted in education on June 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yes, the title was a ploy to get your attention. It was People Magazine that named Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson the “Sexiest Astrophysicst Alive” (not sure who wins the Dead title), and that’s only one among many other, more prestigious, honors. But really we wanted to draw your attention to a very cool audio resource, [...]
An OA Journal for You
Posted in education, information landscape, open access, psychology, scholarly communication on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Open access journal publishing is one way that scholarship and research can be made available to the worldwide community, and a good place to find OA journals is the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Here are some examples from browsing the DOAJ subject lists: Under psychology in social sciences: Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy, [...]
Chaffee Method to Instructional Success
Posted in education, students on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Watch one of ANE’s terrific science teacher certification students, Rose Chaffee, talk about and demonstrate how to rock the classroom:
Beloit Mindset — Class of 2011
Posted in education on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Beloit College has released its Mindset List for the class of 2011, whose members are entering college this year and were born in 1989. Feeling old yet? If not, you may when you read the list. To give you a taste of the “mindset” of this cohort, here are the first ten items on the [...]
Can University Publishing Be Saved?
Posted in education, technology on August 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Inside Higher Ed has a story on Ithaka’s new report, University Publishing in a Digital Age. The report and its authors are suggesting that university presses focus less on the book form and consider a major collaborative effort to assume many of the technological and marketing functions that most presses cannot afford, and that universities [...]
Dialogue-Intensive Learning — Online
Posted in education, faculty, higher ed, online learning & teaching, students on July 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most of us have participated in a course—either as a student or instructor—that required online discussions. Just as can happen when classes meet face-to-face, some discussions take off and others fall flat. In eLearn Magazine, Richard Dool offers insight into ensuring that online course discussions are productive opportunities for learning. The “dialogue intensive” model is [...]
Scrotumgate, a Children’s Literature Controversy
Posted in education on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it, there was a some controversy in the library/elementary education/children’s literature world earlier this year. And it all revolved around the word scrotum. On the first page of the Newbery award winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky, you’ll find that word. According to a New York Times article, some librarians [...]
