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Found this good natural example of PLE by searching FlickrCC.
http://www.bathurst-tafe.nsw.edu.au/%7Epeter/flickrcc/index.php

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I still can’t post a comment to Alex’s  blog, so I navigate to his page and use the (Word) PressIT
tool to post to mine and reference his specific post.  Here is my comment on one part of his post:

Good post Alex! You have a lot of points to make. For blogging (and in our discussions), you should probably try to break them up into several shorter posts. I’ll work my way through the points I can and see
what others might say too.

You say that it is “unfathomable that PCs can be dropped” in favor of another solution.  There is a lot of talk about a Web OS (operating system) comprised of Web 2.0 tools and services (which we will start to discuss and explore the rest of the class) that could replace PC OSs.  The thinking is:  Why do we need Microsoft tools when we can use Open Office, Google Docs, blogs, wikis, rss readers, etc.?  There for the PC becomes a kind of dumb terminal (again).

Good while paper here on WebOS that I probably I couldn’t work into the course:  http://innovationcreators.com/wp/?p=115

But you can Google Web OS for quicker grasp of what it is.

Late breaking news: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_gears_browser_boost.php
Google is working with browsers to enable off line access to its tools.

-rick

I’ll address the first 2 parts of your question this time:

Where do you draw the line between appropriate information sharing and copyright infringement, say when using pieces of textbooks or otherwise access-restricted journal articles that you as an instructor have the ability to see and want to share with your student population?

You don’t draw the line at all; it is drawn for you by copyright law and faculty and students need to know how restrictive it is.  Fair Use laws permit educators specific degrees of temporary or portions use of materials for educational/noncommercial purposes. The material I have for this class on eReserves is <10% of the total pages of the book that I am able to provide under FairUse guidelines – these can be fuzzy to understand for some. Creative Commons.org is a recent licensing approach that provides authors with more flexible licenses for their work.  CC-licensed learning materials are proliferating and you can typically use them as much as you want with only attribution required.  Everything I do is CC-licensed.   Check out their website. Also, so a search on Open Content movement.  I have many good resources on this.
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As an extension–what is appropriate to ask students to publish online using tools such as wikis and blogs?

I’m a little less sure in this area as an adjunct fac, but I know it can get tricky.  I assume students are aware that their work is public and will exercise the appropriate carefulness in what they say but otherwise that your work/ideas are yours.  This course doesn’t tend to get into controversial topics that require more security.  This is a tougher sell in K-12 environment.  Search for Will Richardson who has been evangelizing social software tools for K-12.  His book is on my recommend list.  I have a couple of his podcasts that I will use or share during the course.

Rick Reo
rreo@gmu.edu

This article helps make the point that the term Web 2.0 tends to emphasize the technology aspect of this wave of socially-oriented software movement, and instructional technologists should be as  concerned with  new social behaviors that are played down or lost in the hype?

Interesting taxonomy of user’s participation behaviors!