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Excellent post on fair use, its flaws and the danger of copyright accusation without trial.  This is an example of remix and appropriation of an image where the author could not afford to go to court and potentially lose (multiple times $150,000) and so settled out of court at $32500.

Linux article on a contentious keynote where Bruce Perens argues that the Open Source momenent has failed itself

Interesting service being developed to allow you to mirror your flickr images on your own server / domain. Where is Yahoo going after Delicious. You might want to look at this and other solutions to make sure you aren't burned if Flickr does a Magnolia.

Marketing but some good stuff in the final 'Nutshell' section where it makes the connection to people.

"The "7 Things You Should Know About..." series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. Use these briefs for a no-jargon, quick overview of a topic and share them with time-pressed colleagues."

"I personally believe that the greatest role you [libraries] play is around the documentary national identity. People come to you to find out about their ancestors, to find out what life was like, to critically evaluate and understand the past."

Short post linking to reports on Moocs and where they might lead.

You can read it for free - but only if you read it where we say. The nitty gritty of copyright stoush's.

"Today, Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller is in Sydney, Australia, where she has just signed agreements with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Western Australia (UWA). These top institutions join the University of Melbourne as our second and third Australian university partners, bringing our total number of university and educational institution partners to 86. "

Not sure where these sit. Grad outcomes which are done as separate and optional courses with a certificate.

"In preparing for a Moodle workshop--where the Moodle Glossary is prominently featured--I ran across some wonderful ideas for using Moodle Glossary as a part of one's virtual classroom."

Imagine being in a college class where the instructor challenges students with questions and comments that ellicit active discussion by a majority of students.

Crisca the visiting academic from The University of Michigan pointed to their use of this system as an alternative to clickers

"I was surprised to find while doing some research for a client that there is no single source where one can go to compare different quality standards for e-learning. So I'm starting a list here..."

"Another market where eBooks have a lot of potential is education... Surprisingly though, it's not iPad and eReaders that are driving the eTextbook market - but PCs and netbooks." *Be sure to read the comments too.*

Jon Beasley-Murray posting a little about the impact of the  "Murder, Madness, and Mayhem" project where his students created featured articles on Latin American literature.

"what is required is a radical re-conceptualizing of the teaching and learning process, where the goal becomes "helping students learn" rather than 'teaching.'"

PIVOTE is a virtual learning authoring system for virtual worlds. It was developed as part of the JISC funded PREVIEW project, where it was used to develop training material for Paramedic students at St George's Hospital and Kingston University. Although based on the Medbiquitous Virtual Patient standard the feeling of all involved in the project was that the system could be used for any sort of structured learning in virtual worlds. The result was that JISC have funded the creation of PIVOTE - this open source project.

Short presentation on web2 and elearning

John Beasley-Murray's user page on Wikipedia where he describes creating a writing assignment for his students and the ups and downs of the exercise.

BBC 10 min piece on where ebooks fit into the library world - but is it the publishers that are controlling the game?