Posts tagged “CC v3.0 licences

IN/OUTPUTS for 28 November to 4 December

Posted on 28 November 2011

In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that’s passed through my feeds this week DEEDI and QPS websites licensed under CC BY The use of Creative Commons by Government agencies in Australia is huge. The number of Australian government licence users dwarfs (almost) every other jurisdiction, and today that number ticked just a little higher. The ccAustralia blog published an entry about two Queensland Government departments that have applied Creative Commons to their online content: the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) and the Queensland Police Service (QPS).agencies have adopted the Australian Creative Commons Attribution licence (3.0 and 2.5 respectively). Please welcome DEEDI and QPS to the Commons! ♺ Cheryl Foong on Commons News (Australia), 28 November 2011.  Still hungry? Grab the In/outputs RSS feed for…

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IN/OUTPUTS for 14 to 20 November

Posted on 14 November 2011

In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that’s gone through my feeds this week Could Checking Facebook in Class Help Students Focus? Another link from GOOD, this time from the Education section. It shouldn’t come as a shock that technology is being blamed for why children can’t focus for more than about three minutes. That’s why Professor Larry Rosen, professor of psychology at the College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences at California State University, Dominguez Hills, is calling for tech breaks during teaching. While Rosen is not overjoyed about the idea, allowing students to check their phones to see who SMSed them or what’s been posted on Facebook helps them refocus. Although, like Liz Dwyer, I just don’t see schools and universities making time in the schedule for this to happen.…

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