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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:49:57 +0000
From: "Carolyn Kotlas" <kotlas_at_email.unc.edu>
Subject: TL Infobits -- February 2007
TL INFOBITS February 2007 No. 8 ISSN: Not Yet Assigned
About INFOBITS
INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill ITS Teaching and Learning division. Each month the
ITS-TL's Information Resources Consultant 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.
NOTE: You can read the Web version of this issue at
http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/bitfeb07.php.
You can read all back issues of Infobits at
http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/.
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Sharable Course Content Website
New Journal on Information Literacy
Higher Education Copyright Blog Launched
Comic Book on Copyright Law
Technology and Lifelong Learning
University Press Statement on Open Access Scholarly Publishing
Infobits Tag Cloud
Recommended Reading
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SHARABLE COURSE CONTENT WEBSITE
Connexions is an "environment for collaboratively developing, freely
sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web."
Connexions was founded in 1999 by Richard Baraniuk, electrical and
computer engineering professor at Rice University. The website's
"Content Commons" contains materials that range in levels from K-12 to
college to professional. Topics are organized in small modules that can
be connected into larger courses. The majority of modules are in the
areas of science and technology, mathematics and statistics, and the
arts. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons
"attribution" license. You can access Connexions materials at
http://cnx.org/.
Connexions is just one of several sharable content collections
available on the Web. For links to others, such as MIT's OpenCourseWare
and MERLOT, go to http://cnx.org/aboutus/relatedsites/.
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NEW JOURNAL ON INFORMATION LITERACY
The first issue of the JOURNAL OF INFORMATION LITERACY (JIL) is online.
JIL is an international, peer-reviewed, academic e-journal that "aims
to investigate Information Literacy (IL) within a wide range of
settings. Papers on any topic related to the practical, technological
or philosophical issues raised by the attempt to increase information
literacy throughout society are encouraged."
Papers in the inaugural issue include:
"Transform your Training: Practical Approaches to Interactive
Information Literacy Teaching"
"Show Them How to Do It: Using Macromedia Captivate to Deliver Remote
Demonstrations"
"An Evaluation of an Information Literacy Training Initiative at the
University of Dar es Salaam"
The Journal of Information Literacy [ISSN 1750-5968] is published twice
a year by information professionals from several key UK organizations
actively involved in the field of information literacy. JIL is an open
access title and authors retain copyright for their articles. For more
information and to read issues, go to
http://www.informationliteracy.org.uk/JIL.aspx.
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HIGHER EDUCATION COPYRIGHT BLOG LAUNCHED
The Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital
Environment (CIP) at the University of Maryland University College
(UMUC) has launched "(c)ollectanea," a new blog portal to address the
cultural, political, and legal context of copyright issues and to
provide timely copyright resources for the education and library
communities. Each month entries are provided by a CIP "virtual scholar"
and guest bloggers who have expertise in intellectual property issues.
You can view and participate in the blog at
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/.
The UMUC CIP "provides resources and information for the higher
education community in the areas of intellectual property, copyright,
and the emerging digital environment." For more information see
http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/.
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COMIC BOOK ON COPYRIGHT LAW
Duke University Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain
has published a comic book to teach users copyright law basics,
including the distinctions between fair use and copyright infringement.
The book's format and content are especially relevant to college
students who are using and creating multimedia works. TALES FROM THE
PUBLIC DOMAIN: BOUND BY LAW? can be downloaded for free or purchased in
hardcopy; an educational discount is available for bulk purchases. For
more information go to http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/.
Founded in 2002, the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke
Law School is the first university center in the world devoted to this
side of intellectual property. Its mission is to "promote research and
scholarship on the contributions of the public domain to speech,
culture, science and innovation, to promote debate about the balance
needed in our intellectual property system and to translate academic
research into public policy solutions." For more information, see
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/.
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TECHNOLOGY AND LIFELONG LEARNING
SEMINAR.NET: MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY & LIFELONG LEARNING is an international,
refereed journal "dealing with research into theoretical or practical
aspects related to the learning of adolescents, adults, and elderly, in
formal or informal educational settings." Papers are available in both
English and Norwegian and in both text and video versions. Papers in
the current issue include:
"When Means Become Ends: Technology Producing Values" by Bjorn Hofmann,
University of Oslo and the University College of Gjovik
"Interactive and Face-to-Face Communication: A Perspective from
Philosophy of Mind and Language" by Halvor Nordby, Lillehammer
University College and the University of Oslo
"Do Students Profit from Feedback?" by Arild Raaheim, University of
Bergen
Seminar.net: Media, Technology & Lifelong Learning [ISSN 1504-4831] is
published twice a year by Lillehammer University College. Subscriptions
are free and current and back issues are available on the Web at
http://www.seminar.net/.
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UNIVERSITY PRESS STATEMENT ON OPEN ACCESS SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
"The increasing enthusiasm for open access as a model for scholarly
communication, which grew out of pressure to relieve the financial
burden on libraries of maintaining subscriptions to STM (Scientific,
Technical, and Medical) journals, presents new challenges and new
opportunities for university presses. In its pure form, open access
calls for an entirely new funding model, in which the costs of
publishing research articles in journals are paid for by authors or by
a funding agency, and readers can have access to these publications for
free."
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has issued the
"AAUP Statement on Open Access," which expresses concerns that these
new models of scholarly publishing could cause severe economic harm for
already-financially-strapped presses. The statement is online at
http://www.aaupnet.org/aboutup/issues/oa/statement.pdf.
See also:
"University Presses Take Their Stand"
By Scott Jaschik
INSIDE HIGHER ED, February 28, 2007
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/02/28/open
The article also includes reader comments.
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INFOBITS TAG CLOUD
Some Web 2.0 applications such as Google Earth and Google Maps have
exciting potential in education. And some applications are just fun to
experiment with. Recently, a colleague brought TagCrowd to my
attention. The tool lets you input text and create a tag cloud to
visualize word frequency in the text. The frequency a word appears in a
text is reflected in the font size that word is displayed in.
To test it out, I input the text of the combined 2006 issues of
Infobits. After a little refining to remove insignificant repeated
terms, I came up with results that give a viewer a quick sense of what
Infobits is about. The results can be viewed at
http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/2006cloud.php.
You can try out TagCrowd at http://tagcrowd.com/. Non-commercial users
can use it free of charge under a Creative Commons license.
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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.
"Envisioning the Whole Digital Person"
By Jonathan Follett
UXmatters, February 20, 2007
http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000171.php
"As a human society, we're quite possibly looking at the largest surge
of recorded information that has ever taken place, and at this point,
we have only the most rudimentary tools for managing all this
information--in part because we cannot predict what standards will be in
place in 10, 50, or 100 years."
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