Archive for December 2008


Web 2.0:copyright and IPR

December 25th, 2008 — 6:19pm

The Web2Rights project offers a free online diagostic tool that aims to help teachers and students identify any potential problems with copyright or other Intellectual Property Rights. You also can see the animation: Intellectual Property Rights in the Web 2.0 .  In addition, I advise you to read the article Copyright deconstructed in the Guardian.co.uk.

The Web2Rights is a project is funded by The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

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Social Media Classroom

December 21st, 2008 — 2:59pm

Howard Rheingold starded a new project named Social Media Classroom (SMC), a free online educational platform with forum, blog, microblog,  social bookmarking and so on. “The end goal of the service is to move education away from being a unidirectional delivery of knowledge to become a more collaborative learning process”.

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Free business courses online

December 14th, 2008 — 1:25pm

The EduChoices has published the article “12 Universities Offering Free Business Courses Online“, in which indicates a bunch of free business courses online provided by some of top-ranked universities like MIT, Carnegie Mellon and Berkeley.

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The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

December 12th, 2008 — 5:53am

The Center for Social Media has released  “The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education“. This is an important guide that will help teachers and students to develop media literacy more confident and conscious.

“This code is a step-by-step guide to fair use in an academic setting that enables teachers and students who use popular culture to know when their uses are legal.”

“Media literacy is the capacity to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate messages in a wide variety of forms”

“Media literacy education helps people of all ages to be critical thinkers, effective communicators, and active citizens.”

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