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Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:27:59 +0100
From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu>
Subject: CIT Infobits -- April 2006
CIT INFOBITS April 2006 No. 92 ISSN 1521-9275
About INFOBITS
INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning's Center for Instructional
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monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional
technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes
for electronic dissemination to educators.
You can read this issue on the Web at
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitapr06.html.
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Podcasting Legal Guide
Introduction to Screencasting
Worldwide Digital Trends
Resources for Reshaping Scholarly Communication
Working Smarter with Mobile Devices
Recommended Reading
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PODCASTING LEGAL GUIDE
Podcasting is a tool that allows instructors to give students access to
audio or video files on their iPods or computers. As podcasting
activity increases, so do the questions of legal rights and
liabilities. Creative Commons has just released "Podcasting Legal
Guide: Rules for the Revolution," "a general roadmap of some of the
legal issues specific to podcasting." The guide covers copyright,
publicity rights, and trademark issues related to content that you
acquire or create. Information is also provided on licensing your
podcast. The guide is available online at
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide.
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that offers flexible
copyright licenses for creative works. For more information go to
http://creativecommons.org/.
Other related resources:
Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Legal Guide for Bloggers"
http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/
"New Campus Copyright Guide"
CIT Infobits, March 2006
http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/bitmar06.html#1
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INTRODUCTION TO SCREENCASTING
The latest entry in the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's "7 Things You
Should Know About . . ." series covers screencasting. "Screencasts can
be thought of as video podcasts. They provide a simple means to extend
rich course content to anyone who might benefit from the material but
cannot attend a presentation." The paper answers such questions as
"What is it?" "Who is doing it?" "How does it work?" and "What are the
implications for teaching and learning?" To read "7 Things You Should
Know About . . . Screencasting" go to
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI7012.
The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) publishes the "7 Things You
Should Know About . . ." series on a variety of emerging learning
practices and technologies. Previous topics covered in the series
include blogs, wikis, remote instrumentation, grid computing, and
virtual meetings. To read other papers in the series, go to
http://www.educause.edu/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutSeries/7495.
"ELI is a strategic initiative of EDUCAUSE. While EDUCAUSE serves those
interested in advancing higher education through technology, ELI
specifically explores innovative technologies and practices that
advance learning." For more information, go to
http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?Section_ID=86.
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher
education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
The current membership comprises more than 1,900 colleges,
universities, and educational organizations, including 200
corporations, with 15,000 active members. EDUCAUSE has offices in
Boulder, CO and Washington, DC. Learn more about EDUCAUSE at
http://www.educause.edu.
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WORLDWIDE DIGITAL TRENDS
"Truly a World Wide Web: Globe Going Digital 2005 Pew Global Attitudes
Survey" is the latest in Pew's reports on "a series of worldwide public
opinion surveys that encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from
people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the
current state of the world and important issues of the day." The report
compares data collected in 2002 and 2005 from thirteen countries.
Dramatic increases in computer usage were seen in Great Britain,
Turkey, Russia, India, and Poland. In many countries the increase was
greatest among people over 50 years old. There is still a gender
disparity in computer usage: "men use computers more than women in 14
of 16 countries surveyed; only in Canada and Lebanon do the genders
share the same amount of computer activity." In all countries,
increased computer usage is related to higher education and income
levels. The complete report is available online at
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=251.
The Pew Global Attitudes Project is directed by the Pew Research
Center, "a nonpartisan 'fact tank' that provides information on the
issues, attitudes, and trends shaping America and the world." For more
information, contact Pew Research Center, 1615 L Street, N.W., Suite
700, Washington, DC 20036 USA; tel: 202-419-4350; fax: 202-419-4399;
Web: http://pewresearch.org/.
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RESOURCES FOR RESHAPING SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
". . . the crisis in the scholarly communication system not only
threatens the well being of libraries, but also it threatens our
academic faculty's ability to do world-class research. With current
technologies, we now have, for the first time in history, the tools
necessary to effect change ourselves. We must do everything in our
power to change the current scholarly communication system and promote
open access to scholarly articles."
Paul G. Haschak's webliography provides resources to help effect this
change. "Reshaping the World of Scholarly Communication -- Open Access
and the Free Online Scholarship Movement: Open Access Statements,
Proposals, Declarations, Principles, Strategies, Organizations,
Projects, Campaigns, Initiatives, and Related Items -- A Webliography"
(E-JASL, vol. 7, no. 1, spring 2006) is available online at
http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v07n01/haschak_p01.htm.
E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship
[ISSN 1704-8532] is an independent, professional, refereed electronic
journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and research in the areas of
academic and special librarianship. E-JASL is published by the
Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP),
Athabasca, Canada. For more information, contact: Paul Haschak,
Executive Editor, Board President, and Founder, Linus A. Sims Memorial
Library, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA USA; email:
phaschak@selu.edu; Web: http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/.
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WORKING SMARTER WITH MOBILE DEVICES
"Many scholars are suspicious of the use of mobile ICT [information and
communication technology] as encroachments on individuals' lives and
autonomy. Some worry, for instance, about the degree to which mobile
phones have forced their way into public spaces where privacy and
silence were once the norm." The authors of "The New Mobile Scholar and
the Effective Use of Information and Communication Technology" (by
David B. Bills et al., FIRST MONDAY, vol. 11, no. 4, April 2006) "see
little to be gained by the failure or refusal of social scientists to
take full advantage of these emerging tools. . . . [Their] view is that
technology should be as invisible and unobtrusive as possible, and that
it should be a means to an end (doing better work) rather than an end
in itself." The paper provides a brief primer on wireless technology,
along with discussion of USB technology, PDAs, handheld scanning
devices, and other mobile tools. The goal is to explain to scholars how
to seamlessly integrate all these devices so that they can concentrate
on research and scholarship and not be overwhelmed by the individual
technology pieces. The paper is available online at
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_4/bills/index.html.
First Monday [ISSN 1396-0466] is an online, peer-reviewed journal whose
aim is to publish original articles about the Internet and the global
information infrastructure. It is published in cooperation with the
University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago. For more
information, contact: First Monday, c/o Edward Valauskas, Chief Editor,
PO Box 87636, Chicago IL 60680-0636 USA; email: ejv_at_uic.edu; Web:
http://firstmonday.dk/.
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RECOMMENDED READING
"Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or
that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or
useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits
subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas_at_unc.edu for
possible inclusion in this column.
"The Effect of Communication Medium on Research Participation
Decisions"
by Thomas Chesney
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION, vol. 11, no. 3, 2006
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/chesney.html
Abstract
"Students are often used in research as research subjects or to
validate/pilot questionnaires. It is known that response rates to
requests to participate in research projects vary as a function of a
number of factors. This research brief examines the effect of the
communication medium on response rate by comparing an oral request for
participation with an email request. Email and oral communication,
specifically public oral communication, are the two easiest and
presumably most common approaches faculty members have to access
students to request their participation in research. Results show that
an impersonal email to a mailing list is the worst way researchers can
approach students to request participation, with there being no
difference between making the request by personalized email or orally."
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