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The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave
Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group. Because Wave is such a new product that's evolving quickly, this guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes. Read more about The Complete Guide to Google Wave.
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Free online OCR
Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this to perform OCR on any image you supply.
This service is free, no registration necessary. We also do not need your email address.
Just upload your image files. Free-OCR takes either PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF or BMP format.
The only restriction is that the images must not be larger than 2MB, no wider or higher than 5000 pixels and there is a limit of 10 image uploads per hour.
Should linking be illegal? | Dan Kennedy | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Should linking be illegal?
In a misguided attempt to aid newspapers, one of America's most influential judges is suggesting a new copyright law
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Those who wish to keep the internet free and open had best dust off their legal arguments. One of America's most influential conservative judges, Richard Posner, has proposed a ban on linking to online content without permission. The idea, he said in a blog post last week, is to prevent aggregators and bloggers from linking to newspaper websites without paying:
Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.
FolioSpaces - free opensource e-portfolio
ePortfolios have become increasingly popular during the last five years. Originally focused in the education sector ePortfolios are now widely used in business and by individuals. Foliospaces was established to allow users to maintain control of their hosting. If you move from one education institution to another, change employment, or have varied hobbies or interests, Foliospaces is your personal space. At the heart of Foliospaces is Mahara opensource software. First established in mid 2006, the Mahara project started as collaborative venture funded by New Zealand's Tertiary Education Commission's e-learning Collaborative Development Fund (eCDF), which involved Massey University, Auckland University of Technology, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and Victoria University of Wellington.
NCAM/Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
Version 2.0.2 (OS X) and 2.0.5 (Windows) are now available
Developers of Web- and CD-ROM-based multimedia need an authoring tool for making their materials accessible to persons with disabilities. The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) has developed two such tools, version 1.0 and 2.0.2 of the Media Access Generator (MAGpie), for creating captions and audio descriptions for rich media.
Free and legal music downloads - Jamendo
Free, creative commons licenced music available for download and unlimited reuse.
timeEdition - time management
timeEdition simplifies the work involved in entering your time data, while at the same time ensuring that incorrect time data cannot be input. For example, forgetting to stop recording when you stop performing the activity is not a problem: timeEdition stops recording automatically as per your setting for the freely definable period of user inactivity. This means that if there is no input via either the mouse or the keyboard for a specific period, timeEdition automatically stops recording.
A further core function of timeEdition is its close links to popular calendar applications. timeEdition works perfectly with Apple's iCal, Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar. The software lets you automatically transfer your time records into any one of these calendar applications. You retain an overview of work you have performed, even in retrospect.
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Here you will find FREE TO USE learning resources that you can use to supplement your own course materials or learning. Some of these are from BC-based projects while others are from Open Educational Resource projects from around the world.
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