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The Public Domain–James Boyle

Ok, so even if James Boyle does work at Duke, he still put out a great read on public domain, Copyright, patents, Fair Use, and Creative Commons.  Boyle, working for Duke’s Center for Public Domain, serves on the board of Creative Commons.  Much like Lawrence Lessig and Johnathan Zittrain, Boyle does not argue against the [...]

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K-12 Online Conference

With school in session, conference season will start ramping up again as well.  With the economy, fewer people attend conferences, but they still need the expertise and ideas they would find at a conference.  Right here is where the K-12 Online Conference (http://k12onlineconference.org/) can help.  We reviewed this conference last year (http://www.k12opensourceclassroom.org/?p=117), but basically, people [...]

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Evergreen–Open Source Media/Circulation

Part of my professional responsibilities as CTO include working with Media Coordinators in our district.  Over the past few years, we have seen the need to upgrade our ILS applications.  These applications serve each library.  They allow for the inventory of books and media, cataloging of said materials, and other features needed in libraries.  With [...]

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Joomla! Your Open Content Management System

I serve as CTO of a school systems with 15 schools.  Right now, our Public Information Officer handles the district website.  While he does an amazing job keeping it up to date, he would be the first to tell you he would like additional functionality like photo albums, an integrated calendar, and video posting.  He [...]

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FolioSpaces

With a focus on assessments, and especially those of the authentic variety, more and more we look at portfolios for student assessment.  These truly can assess a student’s knowledge over time.  The one shot test, no, not so much.  So in the 21st Century, we need a portfolio system that a school/school system can implement [...]

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