Changes to Academic Publishing, NPG and Creative Commons and Licensing Images of People I keep coming across interesting articles on blogs and in the news and promising myself I’ll do a blog post on that soon. So here are few that I have stumbled across recently: Want to Change Academic Publishing? Just Say No This […]
Open Access week is the 22 – 28 October 2012. By art designer at PLoS (CC-BY-SA-3.0 ), via Wikimedia Commons Check out the official Open Access Week website here: http://www.openaccessweek.org/ CQ University have set up an Open Access Resources page here: http://www.cqu.edu.au/copyright-@-cquniversity/open-access-and-creative-commons And, in case you haven’t heard, on Thursday October 18, there’s a University […]
Mark Scott, Managing Director of the ABC gave a very interesting lecture last night at the University’s Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society. The lecture entitled Disruptions and Dividends: A Fast Broadband Australia looked at the implications of providing fast broadband to Australians. One of the key themes was the demand of Australians for immediate […]
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Desperately seeking…. Legitmate material (Part 3 – Sound Recordings)
Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Need a sound recording? Sound Station by Passetti (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) While you can play a commercial CD in class, if you want to make a sound recording available online for your students you can’t just make a track available for download because our music licence doesn’t cover that. So here are some options that […]
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Searching for an image? There’s a number of ways you can search for legitimate images online – Google, Flickr, Creative Commons, FreeDigitalPhotos.net, but the principles for checking if something is legitimate are largely the same – you should be able to find out everything you need to know to correctly acknowledge the material and the […]
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Beck – Wow – what can I say?! I haven’t got time to write a full post on this yet – but just read this Forbes article and you’ll understand why he is making old new again. Beck ‘Produces’ A Genius Innovation That Appeals To The User-Generated Generation Stunning.
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Often when I talk to people about using legitimate sources of material I get a lot of questions about how to find it, so I thought I’d dish out a few pointers to help you find what you’re looking for. So let’s say for example you want to find some footage of Simon Sheikh collapsing […]
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