Wcel_Team

"Coffeecourses can be done at your own pace at any time that suits you... Each course is made up of quick (~10 minutes) tasks that can be completed whenever you have time, sitting down with a good cup of coffee..." Nice idea! Application for digital literacy?

"Late Friday, the federal district court in Nevada issued a declaratory judgment that makes is harder for copyright holders to file lawsuits over excerpts of material and burden online forums and their users with nuisance lawsuits." The judgment - part of the nuisance lawsuit avalanche started by copyright troll Righthaven - found that Democratic Underground did not infringe the copyright in a Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper article when a user of the online political forum posted a five-sentence excerpt, with a link back to the newspaper's website. 

Interesting piece on data, privacy, Google and changing times.

Interview with Ray Henderson and Lou Pugliese about Blackboard buying its way into open source.

Analytics and Recommendations block uses charts and tables which are colour coded so students can quickly see they participation. Students can see single analytics about their participation in the course. Teachers can see single, comparative analytics and global analytics (all students together) too. Morover, the block shows recommendations for students about what activities they should work to improve their final grade. It shows too a estimate final grade according with a reference course.

The project blog for a JISC project on visual plagiarism "This blog is written by the Spot the Difference project team, who are researching the meaning, nature, and issues surrounding the concept of 'visual plagiarism', as well as the potential uses of visual search technology in this complex area."

"Sarah believes that in the present, education is at something of a turning point in its relationship with technology, so here she sketches out some predictions for the future to help you stay ahead"

Instructure on the LMS mess and why you should just go with Canvas!

Interesting chart showing the negative effect "in copyright" has on book sales. Also talk by Prof Paul Heald explaining the effect.

Tools, methods, resources, activities related to learning design.  Some useful stuff.

The LMS is (not) dead?

The invulnerable Mac falls prey to a Flash lookalike.

We know mosty of these hints but still some useful new ones. Need to print lots of docs at once? Download all as a zip and print that.

A site supporting the use of eportfolios at a school where they are using Google Sites and Apps.

In the 70's phone companies were worried about you pirating their lines for free...

Negroponte responds to the OLPC criticism by the Economist.

Slideshare suggesting an institutional PLE (personal learning environment) and linking that to digital literacy

Leigh critiques the idea of resources driving open education.

RT @NLNZ: Emerson contemplates the proposed #Library Licence idea, on the blog: http://t.co/O1M3CppB #copyright

"...exploring how universities and colleges can help teaching staff, researchers, support and administrative staff to develop their digital literacies"