Another copyright experiment: U Maine's teaching commons

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Scholarship, teaching, new media, and
copyright conference

Scholarship, teaching, new media, and
copyright conference 06/17/2004 11:28 AM

The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania is holding a conference this weekend on the growing copyright problems facing scholars using digital media. "Knowledge Held Hostage: Scholarly Versus Corporate Rights in the Digital Age" examines the overlap of creative use of technology with (often inadvertent) copyright infringement.

Questions to be addressed include the following:

What justifies fair use in a scholarly context?

Is there a viable alternative to fair use in the academic environment?
What are the fair use issues and needs raised by different scholarly media (for example, print, film, digital media, databases)?

Do different kinds of institutional arrangements (large vs. small school vs. professional society, classroom vs. library) raise different fair use issues and needs?

The event is also sponsored by Rice University 's Connexions project .

Cal-Maine's Pot Cools

Cal-Maine's Pot Cools 12/28/2004 01:13 PM
The egg producer was perfectly positioned for the low-carb craze, but that's over now.

Science Commons | Creative Commons

Science Commons | Creative Commons 12/31/2004 05:09 PM
Creative Commons announces the Science Commons project .. patents and scientific publishing .. scientific CC license

science.creativecommons.org
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Canadian Copyright Board allows
downloads, copyright levies

Canadian Copyright Board allows
downloads, copyright levies 12/14/2003 12:27 PM

The Copyright Board of Canada issued a ruling on " private copying ", largely via peer-to-peer computing, with several components. First, downloading is acceptable, but uploading is not (presumably to target hyperpirates). Second, new mechanisms for levies were described, freezing current ones, allowing new charges.

the Copyright Board said uploading or distributing copyrighted works online appeared to be prohibited under current Canadian law. However, the country's copyright law does allow making a copy for personal use and does not address the source of that copy or whether the original has to be an authorized or noninfringing version, the board said.

Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go

Teaching CSS: there's a long way to go 11/19/2003 01:41 AM

This email to the css-discuss mailing list does a great job of describing the confusion and frustration that still confronts traditional web developers who are only just starting out on the road to mastering CSS. When you've "got it", it's easy to forget how much of a paradigm shift it is away from old school table methods. Here's an extract:

Step Eight.

Just when you think you're settling down into a slow and steady learning curve, this is about when you start getting emails from everyone who uses your site describing all kinds of variations on your layout as it has been interpreted by their varying browsers and platforms. This stage is the most important of all, the one where you realize that CSS support is far, far more random than any HTML workarounds that you've been dealing with for the (insert personal experience here) years you've been making web pages.

(Excerpt from an email from a user of one of my sites: "the new color and stuff on the homepage looks good, except on my computor [sic] some of the pages are cut off at the bottom and have big gaps in them")

Maybe a good analogy to make here is one with Linux: both are great in principle, but if you aren't comfortable with what you are doing you can run in to a whole bunch of problems. I wouldn't recommend anyone who is still on the CSS learning curve to move a big commercial project to pure CSS, just as I wouldn't suggest a Linux newbie start hosting their own internet facing server.

At any rate, it's obvious that we as a community still have a long way to go in creating useful resources for people who want to make the switch to CSS.

Unorthodox Teaching Aid

Unorthodox Teaching Aid 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

Blogpoly: From Monopoly to Blogpoly

“It is just a game. It is fun to use the board to lay out the Blogosphere Ecosystem. It helps me to think and learn about blogging culture by transforming the original game into this version. I had to think about which company and enterprise to choose and set up first on the board. The space is limited, so I picked well known names in blogging industry. Besides the private properties, there are two public utilities--the water works and the electric company. Then I thought of ‘Wikipedia’ and ‘Creative Commons’, and then a few more, making ‘criminal’ into ‘spammer’, ‘free parking’ into ‘free hosting’. ‘Chance’ and ‘community chest’ become ‘comment’ and ‘trackback’. Fun -- yes? There is not much difference for me transforming the game than writing a poem, using similes, metaphors and symbols.” [littleoslo, via Boing Boing]

This is a nice, visual representation of bloggy and social sites/services. It could serve as an interesting conversation piece in training classes, especially tech CE events.

Neural Network Teaching Aid

Neural Network Teaching Aid 05/25/2004 02:44 PM
Initiation

Teaching the Test in Texas

Teaching the Test in Texas 12/03/2003 12:14 PM
Teach ing the Test
As a student at Jefferson Davis High here, Rosa Arevelo seemed the "Texas miracle" in motion. After years of classroom drills, she passed the high school exam required for graduation on her first try. A program of college prep courses earned her the designation "Texas scholar." At the University of Houston, though, Ms. Arevelo discovered the distance between what Texas public schools called success and what she needed to know. Trained to write five-paragraph "persuasive essays" for the state exam, she was stumped by her first writing assignment. She failed the college entrance exam in math twice, even with a year of remedial algebra. At 19, she gave up and went to trade school.

This doesn't look good for our new, unfunded, "Leave No Child Behind" education bill. Smells like another bait and switch to me.

A Guide for Teaching Mathematics

A Guide for Teaching Mathematics 11/18/2003 06:59 AM

georgetown.edu/faculty/ap85/teachmath.html
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Teaching Kids How to Invest

Teaching Kids How to Invest 06/28/2004 09:44 AM
Your kids have time on their side, so give them a head start in investing.

Teaching union gives BNP warning

Teaching union gives BNP warning 04/12/2004 01:03 AM
The largest teaching union is accusing the British National Party of stirring up fear and hatred in schools.

Teaching Nanotech to Swim

Teaching Nanotech to Swim 07/24/2004 11:09 PM

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“One of the cultural icons of nanotechnology is the image of the surgical team from the 1966 science fiction movie, Fantastic Voyage, motoring along through the bloodstream of scientist Jan Benes. Everyone knows the image is about as closely related to real-life nanotechnology as Jurassic Park is to genomics-still, it’s hard to shake. The scene, and others like it have inspired a generation of researchers to pursue technologies that may one day deliver cancer-fighting drugs…

Teaching History With Videogames

Teaching History With Videogames 08/08/2004 07:05 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 8 2004 11:07AM GMT

'Big improvement' in ICT teaching

'Big improvement' in ICT teaching 05/14/2004 04:50 AM
BBC May 14 2004 9:03AM GMT

New: Teaching Music with Reason

New: Teaching Music with Reason 05/06/2004 10:07 AM
Propellerhead Software's Teaching Music with Reason combines a specially adapted version of its Reason music application with lesson-based materials for teaching music creation.

Teaching an Old Walkman Some New Steps

Teaching an Old Walkman Some New Steps 04/19/2004 01:29 AM
New York Times Apr 19 2004 5:53AM GMT

Teaching an old Walkman new steps

Teaching an old Walkman new steps 04/19/2004 09:37 AM
CNET Apr 19 2004 2:15PM GMT

Teaching Music Traders a Lesson

Teaching Music Traders a Lesson 11/12/2003 01:22 PM
The Berklee College of Music is encouraging anyone to grab and trade clips of the school's music lessons on P2P networks. The school also wants to stimulate debate about the future of the music industry in the digital world. By Katie Dean.

Teaching union head dies

Teaching union head dies 05/22/2004 02:18 PM
The general secretary of the country's second-largest teaching union, Eamonn O'Kane, dies in London.

Teaching net straddles Pacific islands

Teaching net straddles Pacific islands 07/19/2004 04:27 AM
Lessons via satellite are helping students keep up with their education in the island nations of the South Pacific.

mod_perl 2 summer teaching tour

mod_perl 2 summer teaching tour 04/19/2005 08:48 AM
stas writes "While planning vacation and teaching engagements I've discovered that I'm going to do a trip around the world in about 80 days :) During the trip I'd like to offer free mod_perl tutorials/talks to Perl monger groups in the areas I'll be in....

Moreh - Jewish Teaching Software

Moreh - Jewish Teaching Software 09/06/2004 01:59 AM
Project team forming

Teaching educators about free software

Teaching educators about free software 12/17/2003 10:45 AM
I was shocked when the middle school principal told me he could not accept free software for his journalism program; that all he was allowed to use was fresh-from-the-box commercial software. "It's school district policy," he said. "We can't even bring software from home now. It's because of the licensing. There are big fines for using unlicensed software. We can't risk it." This was an educated man, a fine teacher and administrator, but he knew nothing about the licensing terms under which Linux, OpenOffice, and many other fine programs are distributed. Neither, apparently, did his superiors in the school district administration. We need to teach them.

Home teaching 'needs more checks'

Home teaching 'needs more checks' 07/29/2004 11:34 AM
Children taught by their parents should be subject to greater scrutiny, a union has heard.

Women & Macs Part III: Teaching

Women & Macs Part III: Teaching 03/13/2003 10:20 AM
As part of the celebration of International Women's Day, our friends at faq-mac.com have published an interview with Reyyan Ayfer, a teacher of Computer Science at the Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), who talks about teaching, opportunities for women at the university, and the hardware and software used...

Maria, the Virtual Teaching Assistant?

Maria, the Virtual Teaching Assistant? 02/01/2005 10:05 PM
Maria is an assistant teacher in Statistical Interference at the University of Auckland according to a new press release from the University. It also describes some of the unique attributes of Maria. First of all, it claims she's a virtual, artificial intelligence entity "with a vocabulary of 203,000 words, a repertoire of 106,000 grammatical rules and 118,000 rules of logical interference, Maria is capable of conversation at quite a complex level." Whe she's not teaching, Maria apparently hangs out on the Internet with her other virtual friends phishing for credit card numbers. Feel free to visit them and have a chat. I decided to interview Maria and find out if she's really as smart as the story claims.

Cory teaching Clarion in 2005

Cory teaching Clarion in 2005 07/28/2004 05:48 AM
In 1992, I graduated from the Clarion Writers' Workshop at Michigan State University, the famed six-week "boot-camp for science-fiction writers." It was an amazing experience: my instruction from the likes of Damon Knight, James Patrick Kelly, Lisa Goldstein, Nancy Kress and Kate Wilhelm forever changed me as a writer and a person.

Therefore, it is a stupendous honour to be able to announce that I will be returning to Clarion next year, as part of the 2005 roster of instructors. My co-instructors will be Joan Vinge, Charles Coleman Finlay, Gwyneth Jones, Walter John Williams and Leslie What.

Clarion is in transition this year, as funding cuts at MSU will require a change of venue. Here are some details:

Among the options being considered are moving the workshop to another university or becoming an independent non-profit organization, along the lines of Clarion West. In either event, Clarion is likely to leave its long-time home in East Lansing and is actively soliciting suggestions for new location(s) and offers from organizations or groups willing to host the workshop. “I think it’s past time for Clarion to make a transition to a new venue and a new structure,” said Board Member James Patrick Kelly. The Clarion Board is calling on alumni and friends of the workshop to volunteer to help with the transition. “We need to work on fundraising, communications, and administration,” said Kelly. “We’re encouraging people who believe in Clarion to get involved with everything from putting together our newsletter to helping choose the instructors and lots in between.” To that end, the Clarion Board of Directors, which currently consists of Matheson, Kelly, Kate Wilhelm, Maureen McHugh, Karen Joy Fowler, Tim Powers, and former Clarion director Tess Tavormina will be looking to reconstitute itself and expand its membership.

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Teaching Robots to Herd Cats

Teaching Robots to Herd Cats 04/21/2004 04:48 AM
Rescue crews would love to have dozens of tiny robots swarm disaster sites to aid in finding survivors. There's just one problem: The robots don't play well with each other. So researchers are programming teamwork into electronics. By Michelle Delio.

Experience Experiment

Experience Experiment 02/05/2005 09:57 PM
The Brand Experience Lab links cool technologies with cool companies.

"thought experiment"

"thought experiment" 01/16/2004 10:58 AM

The great experiment

The great experiment 07/26/2004 08:54 AM

I'd like to welcome both the new Technorati website design and Politics Coverage into the world. We're still working out some kinks and bugs, so don't be surprised if there's an occastional problem - please let us know and we'll fix things ASAP!

Here's the press release announcing the launch. I'd just like to reach out and give HUGE thanks to the Technorati team. I'm so lucky to be working with you. You guys rock.

More to post later when I get to the Fleet Center for the DNC coverage today. As soon as the CNN coverage launches, I'll post as well. I sure hope the Wifi confinues to work after they turn on those ISM wireless video cameras (they both run at 2.4GHz)!

Another Thought Experiment

Another Thought Experiment 01/16/2004 01:04 PM

Mark Pilgram expresses his concerns about how some aggregators plan to handle invalid Atom feeds. Mark believes that rejecting invalid XML on the client side is a bad idea, and proposes a thought experiment in which all web browsers use strict XML parsers and refuse to display XHTML that isn't well-formed.

This is a bit of a bait-and-switch, though. XHTML has the whole sordid history of HTML on its back, and since browsers have generally been forgiving of even the most convoluted HTML there's a substantial backwards-compatibility issue. The XML-based Atom, however, is brand-spanking new, so it doesn't have the same baggage as XHTML.

So, let's try another thought experiment. I've copied Mark's Atom newsfeed and made it invalid XML by adding a single & character, then uploaded it to my site:

http://www.bradsoft.c om/feeds/badatom.xml

Mark asks us to "imagine that all web browsers use strict XML parsers," but rather than use our imaginations, lets see what happens when we browse this feed in Internet Explorer:

Hmmm...IE appears to be doing client-side validation, and it shows an error instead of displaying the feed's contents. Okay, so let's try Mozilla:

Looks like Mozilla does the same thing. How about Opera?

So, the most popular Windows browsers all perform client-side validation, and fail to display the contents of the invalid Atom feed. There's nothing surprising here, of course - any validating XML parser will reject this feed.

Consumers of RSS feeds have had to code around all sorts of validation problems in order to be backwards-compatible with existing feeds. Atom, however, is new, so customers aren't already subscribed to hundreds of invalid Atom feeds. Being well-formed is a requirement of XML, and Atom is defined as an XML format, so why not expect Atom feeds to be well-formed? Let's get it right this time.

Thought experiment

Thought experiment 01/16/2004 11:05 AM
The client is the wrong place to enforce data integrity. It's just the wrong place. If you want to do it, of course I can't stop you. But think about who it will hurt. (1116 words)

The climateprediction.net Experiment

The climateprediction.net Experiment 06/02/2004 05:29 AM
The climateprediction.net Experiment
http://www.climateprediction.n et

The climateprediction.net experiment has been developed to allow a state-of-the-art climate prediction model to be run on home/ school/ work computers. By getting data from thousands of climate models, we will generate the world's largest climate prediction experiment.

MT Comments Experiment

MT Comments Experiment 04/27/2004 03:59 PM
Okay, everybody out there in blogland, here's an open invitation to post whatever the hell you want in the comments thread of *THIS* particular entry. The ONLY requirement is that you post as ME. So, use *MY* name (Chris Pirillo), *MY* e-mail address (chris@pirillo.com), and *MY* blog address (which, in case you're too to have noticed, is http://chris.pirillo.com/). At the end of the day, everybody has to guess who the *REAL* Chris Pirillo is. So, go ahead - post as "me," and then guess who "I" am. All non-me comments will be deleted and banned permanently, so play by the rules or GTFO. This experiment is only valid for this entry....

Teaching High School Biology from
TeachersDomain.org

Teaching High School Biology from
TeachersDomain.org 02/01/2005 08:51 PM
Teachers' Domain Professional Development introduces Teaching High School Biology at www.teachersdomain.org/courses, an online course designed to provide new strategies for teachers to excite students about science and facilitate students' learning using multimedia and other interactive technologies.

Teaching union head O'Kane dies

Teaching union head O'Kane dies 05/22/2004 04:53 PM
The general secretary of the country's second-largest teaching union, Eamonn O'Kane, dies in London.

"Teaching Darwin splits Pennsylvania
town "

"Teaching Darwin splits Pennsylvania
town " 03/30/2005 03:21 AM

Teaching History In Schools With Video
Games

Teaching History In Schools With Video
Games 05/27/2004 12:11 PM

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