Author: Robert

Exploring the ADA and IDEA

Elevator Speech The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects the civil rights of individuals with disabilities comparable to other protected classes. Discrimination against persons with disabilities is prohibited by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Title II prohibits discrimination by disability by public entities, whether or not they receive federal…


Collection III: IP, Etc.

IP, Friend or Foe? Making Sense of Copyright Collaborate (a Little) Fair(ish) Use The (Creative) Commons Discourse, Together Double Dipping — Work Together (20-30 pts) Weave It (20 pts) Wing It (The Engagement Edition)! (20 pts)


The (Creative) Commons

So, I hit the Creative Commons website and followed the links to the “Choose a License” page. I read it through and then circled back to Chris’s assignment. He indicated that I needed to select something that I made for this course. I thought about the audio’s I had published on SoundCloud. Interestingly, SoundCloud plays…


Fair(ish) Use

My understanding of Fair Use comes from years and years of work as a Reserve Technician (job titles, who writes that noise) processing reserves for faculty at a small elite liberal-arts college in an academic library.  Fair Use was my life-blood. A lot of time was spent on educating faculty, and feeling annoyed when librarians…


Collaborate (a Little)

Collaboration (A Little) Heather Marie, Kevin, and Bob I reached out to these two on Slack to form this group.  We took Digital Storytelling together the last term. I am a bitter vet when it comes to group work in graduate classes so I am fully intentional in selecting collaborators.  Happily, this team gelled immediately…


Making Sense of Copyright

I recall cassette machines and tapes as a kid. My step-father was a techy and a music aficionado. He set up a multi-cassette recording station and used it to copy the preacher’s Sunday sermon. I guess the idea was that lots of folks would want to hear, or buy the sermon at another time (sardonically…


IP, Friend or Foe?

Bobby Munson: You know my rule: no bud before 9AM. Jax: I don’t have that rule. In drafting this essay, I want to return to my intellectual roots and to think about intellectual property from an outlaw perspective. In the following, I aim to explore thinking about indigenous intellectual property rights. Of course, from an emic…


Collection II

Theme: Digital Citizenship, Digital Literacy, Life Online, Oh My! Where Are You Now? Exploring Digital Citizenship Essential Elements of Digital Literacy: I Essential Elements of Digital Literacy: II Gearing Up for Annotation Web Literacy Your Choice Assignments Bling your Blog Who to Follow


Who to Follow

Tara Hunt She not only talks the talk of building community online, she also walks the walk. She is a LinkedIN Influencer, followed by over 110,000 people. Her Slideshare presentations have been viewed over 1.7 million times. She is in the top 5% of Twitter users worldwide with over 51,000 followers. I first discovered Tara…


Bling your Blog

I have been working with WordPress sites since 2009. So, I initially shied away from this extra-credit assignment.  However, I never really liked the orange of my previous theme. I selected it to go with the header picture of fall in Maine. I could have picked a complementary color instead, blue to the orange foliage,…