flyer: magna_webinar_april_30_2013 :: Copyright & Distance Education
Join Us for a Free Online Seminar sponsored by the CUNY Office of Library Services; Presented by Magna Online Seminars
“How Recent Copyright Court Cases Affect Distance Education: What Educators Need to Know About Copyright”
Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 2pm-4pm
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Lloyd Sealy Library Classroom, 899 10th Ave.
Presenter Linda Enghagen, University of Massachusetts at Amherst is the author of Fair Use Guidelines for Educators. Professor Enghagen will guide us through a review of best practices in fair use, including distribution of course material and assignment design. The webinar will show you how to establish and implement policies to assure copyright compliance. Continue reading “Copyright and Distance Ed. Webinar for Classroom Faculty”
A Video Version of the Periodic Table
[from the Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus, 8/22/08]
A Video Version of the Periodic Table
The University of Nottingham, in England, has put a high-tech twist on the periodic table, creating a clickable version that points to short YouTube clips about each element.
The Periodic Table of Videos, as their creation is called, features 118 videos, each about 2 minutes long. Scientists perform experiments with the elements or describe unusual properties of each one. In the clip about Beryllium, for instance, a researcher refuses to open a jar holding a sample of the element, explaining that exposure to it can cause a rare and deadly disease. (Another researcher interviewed in the video explains that the element is used in the processing of medical X-rays.)
The “most watched” elemental video, according to the site, is the one for Sodium. If you drop sodium into water, the reaction is explosive, as researchers demonstrate. —Jeffrey R. Young
PubMed Now Indexes Videos of Experiments and Protocols in Life Sciences
For faculty who teach in the life sciences and use visual online resources to enhance learning, this will be of interest:
(from the Chronicle of Higher Ed. Wired Campus) PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s online database, is now indexing videos from The Journal of Visualized Experiments. According to the publication’s official blog, JoVE is “the first video-journal to ever be accepted for publication in PubMed.”
The online, open-access journal publishes videos of experiments and protocols in the biological and life sciences and offers its video-articles to science bloggers to illustrate their posts. <full article>
