Digital Dissertations and Copyright At Kairos News, there's a summary of an article that appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education regarding fair use and the use of multimedia in dissertations. As I know some people around campus are interested in having their students produce multimedia documents (especially in Film Studies), you might be interested in both the summary and the article. The article is behind the subscription wall, but Bryn Mawr subscribes through the library.

I know I say this all the time, but we really have to pay attention to these issues before fair use goes away completely and we are unable to do the kind of research we need to do. ¶ 11:39 AM, posted by Laura  0 comments   

  Personal broadcasting, education and the remix culture Here's a version of the presentation I gave for the New Media Consortium yesterday. It's one of the many practice versions I did, so some things changed during the actual presentation. I highly recommend the NMC online conferences. Though I found being a disembodied presenter a little difficult, I really enjoyed watching the other presentations. Also, I wasn't able to attend the live presentations on Thursday, so I went back last night and listened to them--very cool.

mp3 version
screencast (flash) ¶ 4:33 PM, posted by Laura  0 comments   

  Podcasting and art history I'm participating in the New Media Consortium's Personal Broadcasting conference online and I just saw a wonderful presentation on using podcasting in art history classes. This is something I'd definitely like to see someone at Bryn Mawr try. Check out the Smart History blog to see some examples. ¶ 12:57 PM, posted by Laura  0 comments   

  Click and Double-Click: Summer Institute This episode we interview a couple of summer interns and talk about the iGeneration. ¶ 11:03 AM, posted by Laura  0 comments   

  Education blogging in the Wapo Today's Washington Post has a series of articles on blogging in education. The first article is a general overview of educational blogs. The second is a profile of Will Richardson, one of my personal favorite edubloggers. The third article is an interview with Alex Halavais of NYU's Informatics department focused on blogging in the classroom. Finally, there is the student viewpoint on all this blogging. ¶ 11:51 AM, posted by Laura  0 comments   

  Higher Ed BlogCon starts tomorrow Check out the action here. ¶ 11:03 PM, posted by Laura  0 comments   

  Credibility Commons The internet is full of great information, but can you trust it? The Credibility Commons is trying to use techniques used by librarians to help people (maybe students) figure out if a site is credible. They have set up a beta search site that is supposed to search "credible" sources, but I did a quick search for blogging and wasn't particularly impressed. A search for hurricane Katrina fared much better. Of course, they're just now getting off the ground. I'm sure the sources will improve.

via Ars Technica ¶ 9:03 AM, posted by Laura  0 comments