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Guides to Copyright for Faculty and Students

Statues on the Cathedral, Venice, ItalyThese links can help faculty and students to understand some of the issues related to copyright and fair use. Both is these are very nicely done. The first covers copyright and fair-use issues in a straightforward,  factual manner. It is easy to understand. The second  one has the added benefit of presenting an interactive question/answer guide to determining whether a multimedia object can be used in the classroom or on a password-protected sight such as Blackboard.

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2009 06 26 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-06-18

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Open courseware, academic podcasts, iPod for learning

Locarno, SwitzerlandWhile doing some research for an upcoming book I took a look at some resources dealing with open courseware and multimedia sites that can be used for learning. I admit that I was impressed with the richness of the resources available. The ‘free U’ is available. This is so much better than educational TV I knew in the past as both a learner and a teacher.

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2009 06 13 ernie Interesting Web Sites
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Revisiting the Free University

Water trees and Shadows When I was a graduate student at a large university in the east in the early 1970’s, Thinking we were reinventing the world we had the experience of starting food co-ops, going to a free store – take or leave what you want with no charge, and developing or participating in the free university. The later was a new concept to me. An organized offering of courses – mostly ones that met for one or a few times, available to anyone who registered or signed up for the courses. Registration was necessary to enforce a limit on the number of people who attended and to develop a database of information about the participants.

As I was doing some research on open courseware podcasts,  recollections of the  free university returned.  Open courseware seems to be a natural development of the freedom we want and the technology now available. MIT OpenCourseWare being the premier example of the notion of free courses supported by the technology for distribution.

There’s lots more to say, but that’s it for now.

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2009 06 12 ernie Commentary
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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-06-12

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  • The Quietus | News | More Additions For Christmas ATP
    Five more acts have been added to this year’s already-rather-tasty looking ATP Nightmare Before Christmas event.

    A Place To Bury Strangers, Witch, The Pastels, Lilys and J Mascis & The Fog have all been confirmed to play the do, which takes place at Butlins Minehead between December 4th and 6th of this year.

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  • Live Review: Caverns Video Release Party feat. A Place to Bury Strangers, True Womanhood @ Rock and Roll Hotel (2009.06.05) | Aural States
    , more and more people started dancing in front of the stage with happy abandon, demonstrating that the quality of the crowd matters just as much as the quantity. A few people sang along with Oliver Ackermann on occasional songs like “To Fix the Gash In Your Head,” but his low-pitched drone tends to get lost in the wall of sound created by his loud guitar work and effects pedals so the crowd was more inclined to either throw their arms around or stand slackjawed. The latter seemed to be the movement of choice at the end of the set when they went into a five minute instrumental feedback session that rivaled a Sonic Youth set closing…except with a little more melody and volume.
    (tags: aptbs dc reveiew)
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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-06-07

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Landscaping with bottles and caring for Peonies; Gardening links for 2009-06-02

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While in Brooklyn in earlier May we came upon a garden along a sidewalk near the Gowanus Canal. Whoever put it together used bottles as a border in one part to provide some height differential. it was very effective visually and structurally. A link to instructions for such a project is below along with a link for information about caring for peonies.

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-05-31

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  • Vox Populi » Concert Calendar: Forensics, X, A Place To Bury Strangers
    A Place To Bury Strangers were always somewhat of an enigmatic band to me. They play a really weird mash up of noises that I don’t even want to call music, but that would be too critical of me.
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  • A Place To Bury Strangers – Missing You / Track Reviews / This Is Fake DIY
    Opening with what sounds like distorted feedback, a looping melody is faded in, the shimmering reverb effect placed upon it creating a mildly disorientating effect. The verse is led by the harsh, pounding drumbeat, so regimented, dragging the rest of the instruments along with it. Oliver Ackermanns barely decipherable, emotionless vocals murmuring ‘you didn’t have to try, to fall in love’ while the bass rumbles through the verse, as controlled and measured as the vocals. This is before a chorus that could well signal the end of the world blasts through the speakers. The sheer noise created is evidence of their reputation as ‘the worlds loudest band’. It’s sublime.
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  • We Like Truckin’: More bands for Truck 12 / Music News // Drowned In Sound
    Elsewhere, The Joy Formidable, Vieux Farka Toure, Hjaltalin and A Place To Bury Strangers all join in on the fun, whilst Damo Suzuki will play a 90-minute improvised set at the Oxfordshire indie festival.
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  • Radio Flyer Review: Live: Holy Fuck and A Place To Bury Strangers
    One of the things that makes APTBS so great is that the three musicians seem to come from very different places. Instead of meeting in middle stylistically, they each maintain their identity, crashing into each other at full force. This unusual interplay guarantees the band’s unique sound. Drummer Jay Space plays relentless 16th-note-based heavy dance rhythms, while Jono Mofo’s measured bass lines open up the sound, while deepening it into the lowest registers. This odd couple of a rhythm section make it pretty much impossible to say whether what you’re hearing is fast or slow. Meanwhile, Ackermann’s noise guitar buries heavy chords under squeals and roars while his vocals fight through the sonic combat zone undeterred.
    (tags: aptbs review ny)
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Software to Manage a Website; 2009-05-29

Norhtern Peninsula, NewFoundland, CA A collection of links that include tools for managing a Web site. There are many very good sources and these are a few that have recently come into view.

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2009 05 29 ernie Interesting Web Sites
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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-05-29

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