Wired Campus: Clicker Devices Flunk Test by Giving Perfect�Scores - Chronicle.com
Hmm. Guess we don't want to use clickers for the November elections! :-)
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Wired Campus: A YouTube for�Documents? - Chronicle.com
Wired Campus: A YouTube for�Documents? - Chronicle.com
Scribd is a site that I'll have to ponder a bit more. It's a document sharing social site complete with categories, most viewed, most popular, most commented, tag clouds, etc.
A few preliminary thoughts:
*Another place to check for plagiarized papers...sigh.
*Class notes generated by professors at other institutions might be good study tools.
*It's going to have the same battle with copyrighted information.
*I'll be interested to see if substantial focused collections begin to surface in the stream of documents.
You might have trouble getting in right now - servers seem to be overloaded.
Scribd is a site that I'll have to ponder a bit more. It's a document sharing social site complete with categories, most viewed, most popular, most commented, tag clouds, etc.
A few preliminary thoughts:
*Another place to check for plagiarized papers...sigh.
*Class notes generated by professors at other institutions might be good study tools.
*It's going to have the same battle with copyrighted information.
*I'll be interested to see if substantial focused collections begin to surface in the stream of documents.
You might have trouble getting in right now - servers seem to be overloaded.
Digital archiving and future journals
One of the dilemas for archiving journals is the valued-added content that appears on the journal web pages. Portico and various indexes mostly ignore it.
I've subscribed to BBC Music Magazine for years. Recently they've started issuing a monthly digital version. Here's an example:
http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1G47ab243fb1c0d012.cde
(Flip back a few pages and look for "click to listen" and video frames...)
It's a pipsqueak compared to the longer print magazine, but it foreshadows what the full journal could become in the future.
Imagine getting your favorite magazine on a lightweight ebook reader with embedded video, audio, links to web pages, etc. on every page.
Wow.
Vickie
I've subscribed to BBC Music Magazine for years. Recently they've started issuing a monthly digital version. Here's an example:
http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1G47ab243fb1c0d012.cde
(Flip back a few pages and look for "click to listen" and video frames...)
It's a pipsqueak compared to the longer print magazine, but it foreshadows what the full journal could become in the future.
Imagine getting your favorite magazine on a lightweight ebook reader with embedded video, audio, links to web pages, etc. on every page.
Wow.
Vickie
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Visual Search Startup Takes a Whack at Copyright Issue
Visual Search Startup Takes a Whack at Copyright Issue
eWeek writes about Eyealike, a new visual search engine that will allow companies to search for uses of images and video that are violating copyright.
Given the number of student who erroneously assume that copyright only protects text - a development with scary implications.
eWeek writes about Eyealike, a new visual search engine that will allow companies to search for uses of images and video that are violating copyright.
Given the number of student who erroneously assume that copyright only protects text - a development with scary implications.
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