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In a recent email announcement, Educause provides links to collections of IP-related resources:

• Intellectual Property
  • Copyright
  • Fair Use

(Tune In Feb. 1: Copyright Fair Use and the Economy,

January 24, 2008, 21:45:16 JST)

This is a quick post to save today’s finds until I reassemble IP resources on a wiki. For previous posts on IP issues, I suggest browsing the LTD Project Blog category “IntellectualProperty”. You may find the links to the same resource collections in an earlier post.

In a brief review for the June 2007 issue of TESOL’s Essential Teacher (Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 42), Susan Kelly expresses preference for SurveyMonkey as a tool for custom-designed assessments that help her optimize teaching practices before standard semester-final evaluations, which she asserts “occur too late and feature questions that don’t fit my [her] needs.” She finds that free SurveyMonkey services (registration required) suit her needs, and suggests that intuitive site design enables advanced EFL students to create their own surveys, though only premium services (19.95 USD/mo.) allow direct exports of survey results to spreadsheets for presentation and reporting purposes.

BROG Shirt
Originally uploaded by p373.

Interesting list of brog papers to check out here. Thanks to Rick for pointing this out!

That’s: http://www.blogninja.com/

An announcement of a live Educause event February 15 reminds me to follow up on some older intellectual property (IP) related resources. Here are a few more gleaned through the announcement – two out of three with a U.S. bent:

Educause. (2007). Federal copyright law [online resource collection]. Retrieved February 7, 2007, from http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=252

Educause. (2007). Scholarly communication [online resource collection]. Retrieved February 7, 2007, from http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=428

Public Knowledge. (2007). Policy blog: intellectual property. Retrieved February 7, 2007, from http://www.publicknowledge.org/articles/49

• “Public Knowledge is a Washington DC based advocacy group working to defend your rights in the emerging digital culture” (Public Knowledge, 2007).
• Gigi Sohn, President & Founder of Public Knowledge, is to be a special guest at that live Educause event: “The Information Commons and the Future of Innovation, Scholarship, and Creativity.”

If you’re interested in exploring intellectual property rights in some breadth, if not depth, below are a few more pointers to round out those in a previous post about Aussie copyright concerns. These are from three collections:

1. A working bibliography on disk (entries lacking annotations, for resources currently accessible):

Downes, Stephen. (2003). Copyright, ethics and theft. Journal of the United States Distance Learning Association 17(2), 51-62. Retrieved January 31, 2007, from http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/ED_APR03.pdf

Downes, Stephen. (2006). A Patent Dilemma. Innovate 3(2). Retrieved January 31, 2007, from http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=399

Lessig, Lawrence. (2002). Free culture [Flash media recording]. Retrieved January 31, 2007, from http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/free.html

2. Bookmarks on del.icio.us (not necessarily annotated, either):

http://del.icio.us/pab/copyright

3. Another place I’d look, Educause.

If you discover any articles at Educause (or elsewhere) that you find particularly easy to understand and applicable to our work (educational blogging), please don’t hesitate to say which and why in a comment related to each.