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Beth Kantner tellsa tale of having her CC image reused and having an 'All rights reserved' label put on it. She gathers the comments that were made with some interesting takes on it.

Image of scaffolding but with description that mentions education and has a good example of scaffolding environmental regeneration.

"Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the world. Its more than 17,000 learning objects or modules in its repository and over 1000 collections (textbooks, journal articles, etc.) are used by over 2 million people per month. Its content services the educational needs of learners of all ages, in nearly every discipline, from math and science to history and English to psychology and sociology. Connexions delivers content for free over the Internet for schools, educators, students, and parents to access 24/7/365. Materials are easily downloadable to almost any mobile device for use anywhere, anytime. Schools can also order low cost hard copy sets of the materials (textbooks)."

Excellent article from Australia on why people pirate and why it's often the copyright owners (big business, not the creators) to blame.

Commercial video for class tool.

An account of using the LibraryBox.

Hey all, this could be of interest. A huge bunch of eBooks shared in an MSDN post this week so is legit. A lot of them are product specific rather than technology focused but still a good looking resource

Recording of a York & Southampton research seminar looking at the role of SoMe in research. Audio could be better.

Video tool designed to give students feedback on eg their speaking, presentations, performance, etc. Designed At Baruch College NY this is now open source and has been well refined through 5 years of use,