Tag Archives: copyright

Web2.0 and authorship: suggested reading

Posted on behalf of Dr Celia Thompson (Languages and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts):
Given the Information Futures Commission’s focus on teaching and learning in the Digital Age, I would like to propose that the Project Team include the paper entitled “Web 2.0 authorship: Issues of referencing and citation for academic integrity” as a recommended resource for […]

Learning new information literacy skills

Henry Jenkins (MIT) and Howard Gardner (Harvard) are each leading projects investigating how to teach information literacy skills to the current generation of university students.
The New Media Literacies project at MIT takes what we might call an ‘embedded’ approach to teaching information literacy:
“How does digital copying relate to legacy notions of property? What do […]

Play, pause, rewind

The Western New Year is a scant six weeks old, Chinese New Year has only just started, and already the University community has been treated to two Information Futures Forum lectures by international guest speakers.
Missed the forums? No worries — you can ‘attend’ online instead. Videos of both the forums are now available on the […]