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5 Things You Should Read about Copyright and Sharing Instructional Materials
The ACRL Instruction Session is adopting the Educause “7 things you should know about…” model with a new series entitled Five Things You Should Read About… The first publication is 5 Things You Should Read about Copyright and Sharing Instructional Materials (PDF) and was brought to my attention because it mentions the ANTS (Animated Tutorial…
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Gale’s new eCatalog
Received an email about Gale’s new eCatalog which I almost deleted, but then decided to take a look at. I thought they did a good job in the email selling it as a green alternative, but was curious to see how useful it’d prove. It’s actually pretty nifty – you can link to a specific…
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Call for Chapters: Using Emerging Technologies in Distance Education
You are invited to submit a chapter for a new publication on using emerging technologies in distance education. Details and submission guidelines are below. “Using Emerging Technologies in Distance Education” – edited by George Veletsianos Part of the “Issues in Distance Education” series – edited by Terry Anderson – planned publication online and in paper…
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University of Calgary Funds Open Access Authors Fund
There was a great announcement yesterday here at the U of C. The text below differs a little from the official press release. Thomas Hickerson, Vice Provost for Libraries and Cultural Resources and University Librarian, announced today the establishment of an annual $100,000 Authors Fund to provide University of Calgary faculty and graduate students with…
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TeamViewer for Desktop Sharing
Haven’t had a chance to try this, but TeamViewer, free for non-commercial use, offers desktop sharing for both Windows and Mac. They claim 10 million users – wonder if they were known as something else before?