As I began reading James Boyle’s book, it was his title that initially intrigued me, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. What did he mean by juxtaposing the public domain with “enclosing the commons of the mind?” The public domain, those resources that all of us can use freely and without permission, is a researcher’s ultimate playground – no worries here about infringing on someone’s copyright or tracking down a photographer now living in Timbuktu before you can use an image. These are the materials that make my job as an archivist easy, allowing me to provide immediate and full access to primary materials.
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We’re pleased to announce titles and times for the plenary presentations and workshops by guest presenters Laura Blankenship and Cole Camplese:
Wednesday, May 13, 2:00-3:15
Engaging the New Classroom Conversation (Plenary Presentation)
Cole Camplese
Wednesday, May 13, 3:30-4:45
Creating a Personal Learning Network for Yourself and for Your Students (Interactive Workshop)
Laura Blankenship
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Thursday, May 14, 9:00-10:15
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Written on April 27, 2009 | Posted in
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In this hands-on workshop, Cole Camplese will lead participants through a conversation about using emerging technologies for course redesign. He will focus in particular on using lightweight, easily accessible tools like Twitter, grassroots video, and blogging in small doses to impact problems of practice. Examples from the PSU and UMW will be shown [...]
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During this talk we will investigate key trends impacting educators in their overall design of learning. Focusing on the emergence of user-created content, social spaces, and mobile devices we will take an integrated look at how we can better utilize technology within these areas to meet the needs of our students. We will [...]
A Personal Learning Network or Personal Learning Environment is a term used to describe a way of organizing and accessing information that helps you do your work. It’s usually applied to those people who work in an information-rich environment where it’s important to keep up with the latest research and where one might be contributing [...]
The title of my talk is one phrasing of the general strategy employed by many faculty (and increasingly, students) when it comes to approaching material on the open web. Faculty not only discourage, but often outright forbid the use of blogs, wikis, or other online resources that are not peer-reviewed. Doing so does [...]
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve extended the registration and proposal deadlines for Faculty Academy. Registrations will now be accepted through May 8th. You may submit proposals through May 4th.
We had hoped to move these deadlines up a bit this year so that we could provide the conference program earlier than ususal. However, in the [...]
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We’re pleased to announce that the title and abstract for Dr. Boye’s keynote address are now available.
The address, Cultural Agoraphobia: What Universities Need to Know About Our Bias Against Openness, will be held at 11:00 am on May 13th at UMW’s College of Graduate and Professional Studies. You can find out more about Dr. Boyle [...]
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