PBWiki’s terms of use sparked some discussion during our sessions last week. I asked them for clarification on their forums. See below:

>>> PBWiki Response

Because you have the ability with PBwiki to have your wikis to be publicly viewable, we have to put in our TOS that we as the serving company have the right to serve your content.

Rest assured, we do not repackage content in any form or do anything with your content as a company.

Also if you have a private wiki we never look at your content or have any rights to do anything with your content. I can tell you that as a policy I (as an agent of PBwiki) cannot even look at your content on your private wiki.

Your content is your content. You can take it with you at any time and we do not do anything with your content in any form.

>>>> My Question

Hi,

Everything in the terms of service (http://pbwiki.com/content/termsofservice) looks great. It essentially says I own everything that’s added to my PBWiki. However, the following clause seems inconsistent with everything around it and makes me think I should pull everything off my site so that I won’t lose intellectual property on my wiki. Can someone please explain the purpose and meaning of this clause? If I have information in a private wiki, does this give the company ownership and/or the right to distribute this information? Should I explicitly copyright my wiki pages? Does this clause override that copyright?

I’m hesitant to continue with my subscription without clarification. Thanks. Here’s the clause:

“However, to enable Company to provide the pbwiki Service, you grant Company a worldwide and fully sub-licensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform, and publicly display your User Submissions (in whole or in part) in any format or medium now known or later developed.”

http://teachdigital.pbwiki.com/copyright

Here’s more info and a demo about the concept map tool we used to create the map below during the copyright discussion.

Ray Land (and co-authors) discuss this concept in their book Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge.  Land himself suggested we *not* buy this book (which lists for $160 on amazon) but rather investigate the more moderately-priced  Threshold Concepts in the Disciplines.

Links from this morning’s presentation on visual and video resources.

Images:

ARTstor

Digicenter Luna Insight

Flickr

flickrCC

Google Images

Video

MIT Open Courseware

You Tube

Hulu

Joost

From a recent Tomorrow’s Professor posting:

Most important, the Case-in-Point method enables the shift from positivist and heroic teaching to improvisational and artistic learning. Five elements-conscious conflict; pause; image or insight; repatterning; interpretation, testimony, and testing-form the core of both the artistic learning and leadership processes (Parks, 2005). Conscious conflict involves creating something new from what isn’t working. Pause stimulates deeper thinking when the active mind is forced to step back. Image or insight occur when “aha” moments emerge, facilitating the resolution of conflict and students’ abilities to interpret their own experiences. Repatterning results when previous assumptions are reconfigured in the light of new evidence. Bringing the new way seeing and thinking to another party or group for confirmation or contradiction gives rise to the interpretation, testimony and testing phase.

I was caught by the juxtaposition of “positivist and heroic teaching” and “artistic and improvisational learning”–and intrigued by the idea that the latter is closely associated with leadership. Thought there might be resonances here for our work throughout the week.

Here are some tools and ideas we used during the first day of our workshop:

Our very own tag cloud (Thanks for the photo, Jenny!):

Old School Tag Cloud

Tag cloud generators:

www.tagcrowd.com

www.wordle.net

www.del.icio.us.com

Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning

Information, Interviews, Ideas about Carol S. Dweck’s Mindset

Lloyd’s Tools and Tricks:

Research Library Search Engine

Batch Geo Code

This site offers a wealth of information from the 2008 Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at Penn State. Attendees and presenters discussed a wide range of topics related to ways of using technology in their teaching, learning, and research. The site includes a video of Lawrence Lessig’s keynote address, discussing  the dominant interpretation of copyright law for digital media, and how young people are using digital media to create new forms of expression.  The site also includes other videos and podcasts from the conference. Link to the home page here.

Click here to apply to be a participant in the 56 to 42 workshop, held June 16-20, 2008.

Furman University’s faculty are now facing the technological r/evolution in an unusually clear and focused way with our upcoming transition from the current 56 to a streamlined 42 class meetings per semester, as will be required by our change to a new academic calendar in Fall 2008. While many faculty experience the transition as a crisis of content coverage, it is also an opportunity to explore, with fresh eyes, the fertile relationship between learning goals and teaching methods and technologies. Asynchronous content delivery is but the point of departure for these explorations, which also encompass:

• Incorporating visual literacy and encouraging digital dialogue
• Using technologies to provide an ongoing, self-generating structure for courses
• Creating active learning environments using technologies

Accordingly, a series of collaborative learning events will be held, designed to promote course redesign by rethinking learning goals through technologies. Furman’s faculty, librarians, technologists, and staff will benefit from their collaboration during these programs as a result of their shared wisdom, their theoretical exploration of asynchronous content delivery, and their hands-on experiences in learning new technologies to support enhanced learning through outcomes-driven course design.

Additional information about the workshops will be posted soon. In the mean time, you can look at our grant.