Monday, 28 May 2007
Fair(y) use tale
Fantastic video using some familiar animated characters from film 'snippets' to explain the concepts of copyright and fair use. Cleverly done, part of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School so comes with a certain amount of authority, and should help to put across the notion of 'Get a grip'!
Friday, 25 May 2007
Practical solutions to using copyright digital content
The Perth College Library Webspots blog highlights a really useful online interactive copyright activity launched by JISC Collections recently. The tool uses common scenarios with related questions to introduce the legal issues, and gives some helpful pointers on how to carry on with the business of education within the bounds of the law.
Monday, 21 May 2007
Sharing the educational process
As guest contributor to Penn State's Open Source Software in Education Series, James Dalziel has posted a fascinating discussion about Learning Design and what he calls Open Source Teaching - the use of Open licences such as Creative Commons to share codified descriptions of educational processes.
Some interesting points are raised about the use of licensing; attitudes to commercial/non-commercial conditions of use, incentives such as attribution and reputation, and ironing out any misconceptions about 'ideas' being copyrightable. The overall effect is to dispell myths that create barriers to sharing, and give the message that the value of Learning Designs is enhanced through reuse.
Well worth reading the full post and responses.
Some interesting points are raised about the use of licensing; attitudes to commercial/non-commercial conditions of use, incentives such as attribution and reputation, and ironing out any misconceptions about 'ideas' being copyrightable. The overall effect is to dispell myths that create barriers to sharing, and give the message that the value of Learning Designs is enhanced through reuse.
Well worth reading the full post and responses.
Friday, 4 May 2007
And the winner is...
SNP - sort of.
Finally decided at 5.30pm with the very last list result, the party with the most seats in the Scottish elections is the SNP. Almost managed to forget the complete shambles of the vote in the excitement! Now the reality sets in while everyone tries to work out who their friends are.
Brian Taylor's blog gives a brief and to the point commentary on proceedings.
(I'm pretty sure the people who designed the ballot papers hadn't read The design of everyday things or they wouldn't have created something that required instructions)
Good luck to Alex 3-jobs Salmond and his team!!
Finally decided at 5.30pm with the very last list result, the party with the most seats in the Scottish elections is the SNP. Almost managed to forget the complete shambles of the vote in the excitement! Now the reality sets in while everyone tries to work out who their friends are.
Brian Taylor's blog gives a brief and to the point commentary on proceedings.
(I'm pretty sure the people who designed the ballot papers hadn't read The design of everyday things or they wouldn't have created something that required instructions)
Good luck to Alex 3-jobs Salmond and his team!!
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