CogBlogged from ‘April, 2004’

I should be working but… I cannot remember the last time I wore a tie. Somebody died or got married maybe 10 years ago. Another I used as a rag to clean a bike chain. But today for work, I was decked out in this spiffy, CDB official ware, courtesy of Mom. I doubt she gets around to reading the blog but hey Mom, here it is. it’s is more than a shirt, yes, just like a floor wax/desert topping combo, my shirt is also a recipe book. I might be cooking up some dog bones this weekend.

Last week, we gave our online students an activity on Copyright and Fair Use: Do the Right Thing, which I have also recently posted in the Maricopa Learning eXchange: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/slip.php?item=1264 The subject merits almost an entire course in itself, but we boiled it down to sending them to to excellent web tutorials: (1) Intellectual Property Law: Why Should I Care?- Carlos And Eddie in ‘Rock Machine’ is a nicely designed site geared for students based on the story of the antics of two cartoon drawn college students. (2) University of Texas Copyright Tutorial has a great wealth of information found inside the UT Crash Course on Copyright They were to review each site, take the simple online quiz from each, and post a discussion board message about their “scoires” and what they learned. Unfortunately, it seems we needed to spell out very specific questions for them to respond to besides [...]

The cogdog has been busy, and hopes to be back barking soon. As a reprieve of insane early heat and sun in Phoenix (97 in late March is a bit much, and early), we have enjoyed a rare outbreak of weather with a few days of major, very much needed rain. Up here in my mountain escape, we got more than 2 inches in 3 days, almost more than we have received since January 2004. But enough weather blab. I am in a bind getting three presentations lined up for the April 20-22 Teaching in the Community Colleges 2004 Online Conference. One is on using our simple web slide show template, the jClicker, for student art presentations, another on “photoblogging” (so in learning more I am having to bum colleague’s mobile phones that have picture taking capability), and a roundup of some Maricopa faculty to “share stories around the digital [...]