Lawsuit Claim: Students' Lecture Notes Infringe on Professor's Copyright | Threat Level from Wired.com

Lawsuit Claim: Students' Lecture Notes Infringe on Professor's Copyright | Threat Level from Wired.com

This is an interesting article about a copyright case. Think about how it relates to the whole open course / open content movement.

Do you think the professor has a worthwhile case? Or should the student be allowed to sell the lecture notes?

Would you feel differently if this were some sort of media derivative (which may or may not include directly media developed for the course by the instructor)?

Digital Avatars as Teachers

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting article:
(to read the whole article you'll need to be on the campus network or log in via the library's offsite access)

Why Digital Avatars Make the Best Teachers

By JEREMY BAILENSON

My virtual representation of me, commonly known as an avatar, can outperform me as a teacher any day. It can pay unwavering attention to every student in a class of 100 or more; show my most spectacular actions while concealing any lapse, like losing my cool; and detect the slightest movement, hint of confusion, and improvement...

Wired Campus: Grad Student Creates a Hot-or-Not�Bot - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: Grad Student Creates a Hot-or-Not�Bot - Chronicle.com

This one's for Forrest.

New Word Processing Options

Apparently google docs now has an offline option. See story.

Blog Post #12

Thinking ahead to your career, how do you anticipate being involved in the open source/open courseware movement? 

PS: Since I messed up and forgot to post the prompt for post #11, you don't have to do it!