New Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education November 20, 2008
Posted by mbolser in : bigmedia, copyright, fair use, publishing , add a commentThe Center for Social Media has just released a document that helps educators who use media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright
doctrine of fair use. The document was created during 10 meetings with more than 150 members of leading educational associations across the United States, and follows in the footsteps of the Documentary Filmmakers Association who created guiding practices for their industry 3 years ago.
In the murky waters of what legally constitutes a fair use and what doesn’t, courts of law generally look to common industry practices. In the absence of such guiding documents, the courts must look to other other industries’ interpretations of fair use, or prior case law, which often themselves aren’t relevant or comparable. Interestingly, The Center for Social Media reports that they “don’t know of any lawsuit brought by an American media company against an educator over the use of media in the educational process”.
The Center defines Media Literacy in Education:
Media literacy is the capacity to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate messages in a wide variety of forms. This expanded conceptualization of literacy responds to the demands of cultural participation in the twenty-first century. Like literacy in general, media literacy includes both receptive and productive dimensions, encompassing critical analysis and communication skills, particularly in relationship to mass media, popular culture, and digital media. Like literacy in general, media literacy is applied in a wide variety of contexts—when watching television or reading newspapers, for example, or when posting commentary to a blog. Indeed, media literacy is implicated everywhere one encounters information and entertainment content. And like literacy in general, media literacy can be taught and learned.
Head on over to their website and to read more and download the code.
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Excellent Examples of Course Blogs in Higher Ed October 30, 2008
Posted by mbolser in : blogs, learning communities, publishing, web20 , add a comment
The University of Mary Washington is certainly leading the way with UMW Blogs in showcasing what is possible in education with a blog publishing platform such as Wordpress MU. Other pioneers include Penn State, Harvard, and UMass Amherst, (and of course, The College Blogs at Suffolk University!)
For those who may not have realized the relevance and power of blogs as self-service publishing platforms in higher ed, some good places to start are to explore the Wordcamp conferences (included the just-passed Northeast one) and (UMW) Jim Groom’s blog bavatuesdays, or (Penn State) Cole Camplese’s Learning and Innovation.
Below are some great examples of course blogs from UMW and UMass Amherst. Poke around for admiration and inspiration!
University of Mary Washington Course Blogs:
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Art & Art History
- Professor JeanAnn Dabb’s Mosaics Exhibit
- Professor Marjorie Och’s Venice Seminar
- Professor Carole Garmon’s Sculpture I
- Prof. Rosemary Jesionowski’s Digital Approaches to Fine Art
Biology
- Professor Steve Gallik’s Online Laboratory and Digital Notebooks homepage for Cellular Biology
- Professor Michael Killian’s Biology 121 course blog
Chemistry
- Professor Kelli Slunt’s Freshman Seminar 100Bb: Kitchen Chemistry
- Professor Kelli Slunt’s Chemistry & Society
Classics, Philosophy, & Religion
- Professor Angela Gosetti’s FSEM 100B: The Journey to the Underworld in Greek Myth and Modern Film
- Professor Nina Mikhalevsky’s Ancient Greek Philosophy
Economics
- Professor Steve Greenlaw’s Economics 201
- Professor Steve Greenlaw’s Freshman Seminar: Globalization
- Professor Steve Greenlaw’s Economics 300
English, Linguistics, & Communication
- Professor Mara Scanlon’s Modern Poetry
- Professor Mara Scanlon’s Freshman Seminar: Ethics and Lit
- Professor John Morello’s Communication and the 2008 Presidential Campaign
- Professor Anand Rao’s Communication 205: Public Speaking
- Professor Anand Rao’s Communication 353: Visual Rhetoric
- Professor Tim O’Donnell’s Freshman Seminar: James Farmer and The Great Debaters
- Professor Tim O’Donnell’s Speech 209: Argumentation
- Professor Zachary Whalen The Virtual and the False
- Professor Zachary Whalen Forms of Narrative
- Professor Zachary Whalen Forms of Narrative
History & American Studies
- Prof. Sue Fernsebner’s Introduction to Historical Methods
- Professor Steve Harris’s Socialism: Theory and Practice
- Professor Steve Harris’s Stalin and Stalinism
- Prof. Jeff McClurken’s Freshman Seminar: Marching Home
- Professor Jeff McClurken’s U.S. History in Film
- Professor Krystyn Moon’s Consumerism Seminar
Modern Foreign Languages
- Professor Betsy Lewis’s Spanish Realism
- Professor Jeremy LaRochelle’s Ideas of Nature in Latin American Literature
- Professor Jeremy LaRochelle’s Spanish Composition and Spanish
- Professor Scott Power’s Contemporary France Seminar
- Professor Marcel Rotter’s German 399
Sociology
- Professor Kristin Marsh’s History of Social Theory
University of Massachusetts Amherst Course Blogs:
- Anthropology 104
http://blogs.umass.edu/anthro104-dk/
- Astronomy 101
http://blogs.umass.edu/astron101-schneide/
- Communication 397SS
http://blogs.umass.edu/comm397ss-jsaxe/
- Journalism 392W
http://blogs.umass.edu/journal392w-bjroche/
- Judaic Studies 390i
http://blogs.umass.edu/jud390i/
- Kinesiology 530
http://blogs.umass.edu/kin530/
- Physics 190E
http://blogs.umass.edu/physics190e-kastor/
- Resources Economics 112
http://blogs.umass.edu/resec112/
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The Future of the Book January 11, 2008
Posted by mbolser in : DRM, amazon, books, ebooks, publishing , 1 comment so far
As many of you undoubtedly know, Amazon released its new Kindle ebook reader this holiday season. It holds over 200 titles and can access Amazon’s online bookstore wirelessly, which boasts over 90,000 titles for instant downloading. The Kindle isn’t the first ebook reader and it won’t be the last, but it is evolutionary in many ways.
I love books in their printed form, and have always been somewhat of a bibliophile. Ever since I learned to read I have surrounded myself with books and can happily lose hours on end in any bookstore or library. Many who share my fondness for the traditional book can’t see a future where digital books are the primary format. I’ve heard all the objections: “I like to hold a book,” “I like bringing it with me,” “I don’t want to read a book on a computer screen,” “I like flipping the pages; I the feel of paper,” “I write in my books,” “I like the smell of books”.
While I can’t say I disagree with any of these statements, I also cherished my album collection: flipping through a stack of albums, spreading them out on the floor, looking at the various art on the jackets, pondering which one to put in the stereo next… these were all part of the experience. Yet, I changed with times (albeit slowly), and through the various technologies as well. Last year I finally threw out all my CD cases (clutter!) and decided that I would no longer buy CD’s. Digital music was the way to go: it’s easy (no trips to the store), more portable, it doesn’t break or scratch or get lost or worn, and it doesn’t clutter up my entertainment center. I am since very pleased with both my decision and my increasing digital music collection.
It is inevitable that the older formats we know and love will eventually take a backseat, and books, like our songs and albums, will be easily accessed, shared, and carried in our pockets. Along with these changes, multimedia such as images and video are more and more becoming part of our texts, and as our ability to create, distribute and share texts keeps expanding, authorship is transforming along with it. What will become of the printed book as digital innovation moves forward? The Institute for The Future of The Book, a think tank devoted to investigating the book’s future in a networked digital world, explores (more…)
