If we represented truly the worst-case scenario, then copyright infringement can’t be a really big problem, because we don’t have that much via chronicle.com I think the lesson here is that fair use practice in education has to lead legislation, not be driven by it. MIT has led the OER movement. As a pioneer and … Continue reading @Downes calls attention to MIT Tops List of College Copyright Violators
Is the book dead? Well, yes and no: Booking the future | open Democracy News Analysis
Is the book dead? Can the Six Sisters of publishing rescue books? Will publishers find a new profit model? Can bookstores survive the internet? Can writers make a living? What about e-books? Is Kindle the beginning and end of the revolution? Will Google Books be literature's savior or executioner? Where does Scribd.com fit in? via … Continue reading Is the book dead? Well, yes and no: Booking the future | open Democracy News Analysis
Another reason to drop EndNote? EndNote sues Zotero & loses @Downes
A Virginia Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit this morning against George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media. Thomson Reuters Inc. had sued the university in a Virginia court in September for at least $10-million in damages, claiming that Zotero, a free software tool created by the university, made improper use of the … Continue reading Another reason to drop EndNote? EndNote sues Zotero & loses @Downes
I have not often blogged about my research but I finished my data collection today
... and, spent the afternoon knocking my head against several walls trying to figure out how in the heck any of it relates to my research questions. Life is rich and complex, horrific and happy. Posted via email from George's posterous
Dave Pollard slates corporate inter and intra net sites and the attitudes that drive them
the vast majority of the groupware/'community' content, just like most of your Intranet content, is unused and possibly obsolete (and hence dangerous). And you'll probably find that the vast majority of the CoPs are more or less dormant, or defunct. via blogs.salon.com Dave Pollard's "practical guide to implementing Web 2.0..." is more a how-not-to than … Continue reading Dave Pollard slates corporate inter and intra net sites and the attitudes that drive them
Reading Beth Kanter’s v useful conceptualisations on sociology of social networking
via beth.typepad.com Essentially a repost via Downes OLD, but I found this article a very useful introduction to the sociology of social networking. Kanter provides tools and illustrations on their use which can help to understand, and to implement directed social networking strategies. (Note to self: can a strategy ever not be directed?) Posted via … Continue reading Reading Beth Kanter’s v useful conceptualisations on sociology of social networking
I am daily impressed at what an excellent reference manager Zotero is
Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/) deserves a much longer pean than I am going to give it here. A web-native application, it knocks the spots off EndNote. It is developed by researchers for researchers at the Center for History and New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) at George Mason University and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute of … Continue reading I am daily impressed at what an excellent reference manager Zotero is
Looking forward to a week of study leave
Next week I am on leave to try to crack my analytical framework and to structure what ever it is I may have found. Last week was discouraging. It has been really hard doing this part-time. Picking it up and putting it down: three steps forward two steps back. I have to reinvent myself as … Continue reading Looking forward to a week of study leave
Flourish: PebblePad Technology for professional development #HEAtpd
Sarah Chesney discusses the aims, ethos, key activities and the PS portfolio developed under the Flourish project. Evaluating the use of an eportfolio for CPD for admin and academic staff. Used to ease the admin burden and provide personal learning system (PLE?), within which is an eportfolio. Academic model practice before students. Over reliance on … Continue reading Flourish: PebblePad Technology for professional development #HEAtpd
Developing the SSBR Platform
It has been a fraught three days working on the new JISC-ssbr platform. After a long time of indecision we are pushed to cement something in place and live with it. I am writing this as much to check that feeds into the various blog components work.
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