PIDT: Day One

So here I am blogging during a session at PIDT in the absolutely fabulous YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, CO. I love attending these meetings because I keep either meeting or reconnecting with fabulous people. Today’s examples: “Trey Martindale”:http://www.soe.ecu.edu/ltdi/martindale/default.htm, who has a wicked three point shot, and perhaps my favorite colleague on the planet, “Janette Hill”:http://it.coe.uga.edu/~janette/. While leading a session titled something like “Where is the learning?” earlier this morning, it became clear that many of the people here don’t know what blogs or wikis are. So now tomorrow I’m doing an ad hoc intro to the topics, and will be updating my getting started guide accordingly…

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Copyright and Education

There’s a great introduction to the DMCA and TEACH Act over at the “LIBRES Journal”:http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres13n1/index.htm Thanks to Henk at “In Between”:http://eepi.ubib.eur.nl/iliit/archives/2003_05.html#000143 for the link. Utah State University has just formed a committee to put policy in place ensuring our compliance with the TEACH Act. A committee I’m actually excited to be on!

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Journals, News, and Discourse

Due to poor planning (ask me later) I’ve received a “new faculty grant” to start a free access, online, peer-reviewed, instructional technology “journal.” Of course, my inclination is to lean it toward learning objects / reusable media / online communities / blogs / open content / etc. for the topic or niche. But the point of the grant is to explore new publishing models, and there are a whole bunch of other exploratory things that could be done. (This of course all ties back into the recent lamenting about the sorry state of academic discourse in inst tech blog circles…)
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