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Collaborative Wiki Project

Posted on October 30, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Before I started class today, this article popped up in my aggregator.  Ironically, we had just finished an assignment that was closely related. Martha Groom presented “Using Wikipedia to Reenvision the Term Paper” at Educause last week (link includes her … Continue reading →

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Fair Use

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

There is an article in eSchool News today about fair use.  I think this topic is so misunderstood by teachers that I’ve decided to talk about it at next year’s tech conference. When a teacher doesn’t understand copyright and ‘fair … Continue reading →

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WIPO Does Copyright

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released its second “Children’s Guide” to copyright.  The title is Learn From the Past, Create the Future. The book is appropriate for a student reading at the nine to twelve year old reading level.  … Continue reading →

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Confusing Choices

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Word processing is about preparing a document for some sort of publication.  There are many parts to word processing, but the basics include formatting text, controlling page layout and inserting external objects such as graphics. When learning how to use … Continue reading →

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Copyright and Images

Posted on September 8, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Here’s an article in techLearning that talks about dealing with copyright.  The article mentions Google Images by name.  This service from Google takes advantage of all the pictures “found” by Google’s web crawler.  From the image search box, a picture … Continue reading →

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