Category: ED 654

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,…


Essential Elements of Digital Literacy: II

Essential Elements of Digital Literacy: II Storify by Bob Heath Tue, Jun 20 2017 01:51:23 Edit Essential Elements of Digital Literacy: II Rich Reflections Belshaw, D. (2014). The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies. Retrieved from <digitalliteraci.es> Chapter 6 Treating memes as a case study in digital literacy is a brilliant approach. Moreover, we can now…


Essential Elements of Digital Literacy: I

Please find my Wiki entry here: http://digitalliteraci.es/wiki/Reflections_by_Bob_Heath


Exploring Digital Citizenship

Given that I am six classes into the program I have encountered examples of online engagement that stand out for me.  I will be recasting two here and introducing a third.  John Seeley Brown is focused on the open, online, and passion centered learning that occurs in online affinity groups. I think this is worth…