On Intellectual Property Rights, Access to Medicines and Vaccine Imperialism – TWAILR
Amaka Vanni reflects on the role of international trade and investment law in the creation of intellectual property rights that sacrifice the life and health of the poor and racialised at the altar of corporate profitability.
Refreshyourcache.com - The Guide to Clear your Browser Cache!
Your browser has a folder in which certain items that have been downloaded are stored for future use. Graphic images (such as buttons and icons), photo's, and even entire web pages are examples of items which are saved or cached. When visiting a webpage your browser checks if a copy of the files on the page is in its cache already. If so, it will save the visitor some downloading and make webpages load faster.
99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (2005) is a seriously playful exploration of the possibilities and potential of comics and storytelling. It was inspired by the French author Raymond Queneau’s 1947 book Exercises in Style (Fr Eng), itself inspired by Bach’s Art of the Fugue. The book is based on a simple one-page anecdote which I re-draw and re-tell 99 times in different genres and drawing styles, in the form of homages and parodies, and in formal experiments that test the boundaries of the medium of comics.
This is a COMPLETE account of EVERYTHING we did in my Making Comics class S2021 – online on Zoom. I do a ton of collaborative activities in in-person classes. That had to be adapted somewhat for the online environment – passing papers from student to student wasn’t particularly practical – so I modified and came up with a lot of new in-class activities using constraints as a way of self-collaboration.
Getting started with open educational resources (OER) can be daunting. With so much material on the subject, newcomers may not know where to look for guidance. We recently asked the OER community on Twitter to recommend some resources for introducing people to OER, open education, and open pedagogy.
Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities is a curated collection of reusable and re-mixable resources for teaching and research. Organized by keyword, the annotated artifacts can be saved in collections for future reference or sharing. Each keyword includes a curatorial statement and ten artifacts that exemplify that keyword. You can read the keywords comprehensively, as you would a printed collection. You can browse artifacts, exploring certain types or subject matter. You can also use the platform to curate your own collections of these digital resources. In addition to a curatorial note, each artifact includes descriptive information including a link to the original, a link to a copy of the artifact in the CORE repository (if available), information about the creators, and tags that can be used to find other artifacts.
Student Selection of Content Licenses in OER-enabled Pedagogy | Journal of Copyright in Education & Librarianship
Students acting as content creators is an emergent trend in the field of open educational practice. As more faculty turn towards the use of open pedagogy or OER-enabled Pedagogy, they must be prepared to address concerns related to intellectual property rights of student work. This article addresses student concerns related to intellectual property rights, specifically related to Creative Commons licensing as well as faculty awareness of use of Creative Commons licensing. Research was conducted at a small, liberal arts college in the Appalachian Region of the United States. All first-year students engaged in an OER-enabled Pedagogy project where they collaboratively created a reader for the First Year Studies seminar course. Following class, students and faculty were interviewed regarding how dynamics of intellectual property and Creative Commons licensing impacted the educational process. Results indicate students are open to sharing their works with credit, and value helping others. Faculty tend to be unfamiliar with Creative Commons licensing and must balance the desire to help students understand licensing and prescribing their own preferences when asked about licensing selection.
Choose Your Own Adventure: Gamified Course Design in History of Science | International Journal of Designs for Learning
To combat high dropout rates and low motivation for online courses, we gamified a history of science course. To do so, we used an online educational program called 3DGameLab to convert what had been a well-liked face-to-face lecture and discussion course to an online format, for the purposes of long-distance teaching and learning. Within 3DGameLab, we prepared approximately three times as much content as would be taught in a face-to-face class. Clear tasks and immediate rewards in the form of experience points (XP) contributed to a transparent motivational system as compared to traditional grading. In this course, students completed their assignments asynchronously. Sustaining engagement is challenging in this format due to student self-management, but, with the game mode, students could repeat their attempts to pass a quest (a lesson) until they succeed (submit a passable response). The feedback cycle was short, and we found that students tend to persevere in the face of failure when they get rapid feedback, rather than quit. To test the adaptability of the asynchronous, gamified format, we also designed this course as a hybrid course. Students remained engaged when the feedback was quick, and the tasks were clearly set. We did not perform a quantitative study; the purpose of this article is to share a design study of our methods and subsequent experience with these modalities.
My name is Brett Gaylor. I am a filmmaker, a producer of interactive documentaries, a writer, and an imposter. Everything I’ve ever made took a lot of faking to get done. It would be easier if I did the same thing more than once. Instead, I’ve been making cross platform/new media/immersive/interactive works for the Internet, TV and digital devices while they’ve been in the process of being invented over the last two decades. It requires a lot of improvisation; figuring out the rules and making up new ones.
ResearchSpace - connect, communicate and represent knowledge with context
"Connect, communicate and represent knowledge with context" ResearchSpace provides a range of semantic tools to create, manipulate, analyse and visualise data, that can be searched contextually and continually expanded by new knowledge.
This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education.
Helping our Peers Create Better eLearning Content & Learning Experiences #IDIODC is a weekly live eLearning videocast & podcast hosted by Brent Schlenker and Chris Van Wingerden
Building a settings import and export feature - Pippins Plugins
A feature you will often see large plugins provide is the ability to import and export their settings, making it much easier to migrate sites or to simply replicate the same setup across multiple sites. I have written a sample plugin for you that has a complete settings import and export system to help illustrate how it works, and I’m going to walk you through the process below. The sample plugin does nothing more than register a settings page with a few options on it, and gives an option to both export and import the settings
Speech to Text API | Speech Recognition Service - Rev.ai
Rev.ai's suite of speech-to-text APIs allows businesses to build powerful downstream applications. We train our speech engine on 50,000+ hours of human-transcribed content from a wide range of topics, industries, and accents. The result? You get access to the most accurate speech recognition products on the market.
Creating gBooks, er, eBooks Just Got Easier • TechNotes Blog
Creating ebooks just got easier with the addition of new tools. If you haven’t kept up to date, you’ll want to read this blog entry. We will demystify key elements such as locating ebooks, ebook formats, converting eBooks, three fun approaches to creating ebooks, and copyright-friendly media. Ready to get started? If so, let’s begin!
The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap was developed by Christina Riehman-Murphy and Bryan McGeary as part of their capstone for the SPARC Open Educational Leadership Fellows program. The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap is licensed CC-BY-NC. You can access the complete set of Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap worksheets in Google Drive where you can make a copy and then complete or edit them
The Internet Archive on the future of the web - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
The internet's first librarian likes to reminisce. The early internet is like a fantasy for the founder of the Internet Archive, a place he returns to over and over again in conversation when questions about the present turn dark or depressing. Brewster Kahle might know more about the early years of the web than anyone else. He has occasion to talk about the Archive's beginnings perhaps more than he should these days. Discussing its future can at times be grim, or, at the very least, uncertain. The glories of the Wayback Machine, the petabytes of data capturing every day of human existence online in warehouses scattered across the world, the smooth system of crawlers marching from my Twitter to the homepage for the Russian government to Clubhouse in China — in the grand scheme of history, all of this could be an ephemeral golden age. The so-called balkanization of the internet isn't just a theoretical problem for the Internet Archive. If internet firewalls stay up in China, Iran and Russia, new content continues to move mostly behind paywalls and passwords, and U.S. political leaders decide it's finally time for Section 230 to go, the crawlers whose simple formulas have preserved the last few decades for future historians might not do the same for more than the next few decades. "There are more and more walled gardens where you can't go. We just have crawlers going at a crazy scale, and they can get blocked just like anybody can get blocked," said Jefferson Bailey, the Archive's director of web archiving and data services. But even still, until someone or something fundamentally changes the rules of the web, the Internet Archive will keep doing what it's been doing since 1996: preserving every fragment of text you or I are ever likely to read. Tech's walled gardens might make it harder to get a perfect picture, but the small team of librarians, digital archivists and software engineers at the Internet Archive plan to keep bringing the world the Wayback Machine, the Open Library, the Software Archive, etc., until the end of time. Literally.
Discovery Center - Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry - UMBC
The Chemistry Discovery Center provides a team-based, student-centered supplement to UMBC’s traditional introductory chemistry lecture courses. In weekly two-hour Discovery Learning sessions, students work in teams to solve problems designed to promote teamwork, develop good study skills and practice critical-thinking. Over the course of the semester, students rotate through four different roles within the team, training in supervision, record keeping, data collection/treatment, and result dissemination. These skills are essential to success in life and all future endeavors.
I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that. As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening
Using email as a course delivery tool with Sarah Mercier
Organizations often treat learning as an event rather than a process. As an industry we know that eLearning, videos, and instructor-led training are only the beginning. To be effective, we need ways to support our workforce over time, building competence through multiple approaches. In this episode of IDIODC, Sarah Mercier joined us to discuss a budget-friendly trend used in digital marketing that can be easily applied to workplace learning: email for continual learning and support. Sarah shared some pro tips for designing email courses and shared a variety of real-use cases. We explored how email can be used effectively for spaced learning and performance support.
25 Modern Internet Videos That Have Defined the Form
They say good editing goes unnoticed. Online, it goes viral. It’s clear in the best internet videos: Editing defines the aesthetic, humor, and power of online storytelling. None of the genre’s inherent absurdity would click into place without an editor’s eye for a perfectly devastating zoom, a video cut short a millisecond too early, or a freeze-frame right at the moment of climax, with text overlaid to really underline the point. And yet, the internet video has long lacked definition as a discrete genre, with its own tropes, techniques, and history. Like any art form, this one has been shaped in part by the technology available at the time. In compiling this list of influential video edits, we began in the last days of YouTube’s monopoly, shortly before the birth of the now-deceased app Vine. The online video has, of course, existed for decades, but it was the smartphone — and the proliferation of apps to come out of it — that made editing more sophisticated and more accessible to creators than it had ever been. Suddenly, anybody could shoot and edit a video, building the vocabulary of what that could look like: transition videos, lip syncs, and green-screen-driven storytelling began to cohere as distinct subgenres. That’s only accelerated in the age of TikTok, an app that offers more and easier editing tools for users than any that came before it. Online video is an inherently communal form; it’s defined by thousands of people iterating on the same idea. Every once in a while, though, there’s a leap forward. Every video on this list represents an evolution in the form or exemplifies a particularly influential editing style — whether the creator was one of the first to attempt it, or just pulled off a jaw-dropping editing feat all their own.
Flat explores how to make it easy to work with data in git and GitHub. It builds on the “git scraping” approach pioneered by Simon Willison to offer a simple pattern for bringing working datasets into your repositories and versioning them, because developing against local datasets is faster and easier than working with data over the wire.
