March 5, 2009
Fact 1- The Fair Use part of the US Copyright Law says that in most cases you can allow your students to use copyrighted material such as songs, photos, and other media as long as the finished product is not going to be reproduced and distributed. Fact 2- In real life outside the classroom doing the same thing is illegal and a violation of copyright law punishable by fines and or jail time. Because of the latter I always recommend that teachers give their students the tools and information to complete projects using free, public domain alternatives. Say for example you assign your students to create a Power Point presentation on a specific topic. In the assignment you mandate that the presentation must include at least one graphic on each slide relevant to this topic. Rather than allowing the students to go out on the web and steal images from other sites, demonstrate how to find legal content during your initial presentation. Such...
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January 15, 2009
The purpose of a professional development plan is to provide for continuing improvement in teaching, in other student interactions, in the quality of scholarly activity and other service to the university and community. The purpose of evaluation is to provide faculty with new information which will contribute to their teaching abilities. The professional development plan is intended to be supportive of a faculty member s and their desire for continuing trained growth and academic excellence. This process contributes to various personnel activities and supports the interest of each faculty member to achieve continuing professional growth and to pursue the highest possible level of academic excellence. Project activities included reading and discussing pieces of fiction and history, developing an interdisciplinary humanities curriculum, and video-taping and viewing classroom instruction. It s helpful when knowledge is shared equally...
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December 4, 2008
Pay-per-call is one of the biggest trends in online marketing right now. In fact, pay-per-performance advertising, overall, is gaining ground as more and more businesses discover the high value proposition it provides. Different search engines are incorporating this type of marketing, including AOL search, InfoSpace, and Marchex, who have a combined total of 1.3 billion searches a month. A Quick Overview The concept of pay-per-call is simple: It s an auction for customer calls you bid what you re willing to pay for each call, and your ad appears in the search engine results. The more you bid per call, the higher your ad is ranked. You can see what similar businesses in your service area are bidding, which allows you to rationally price your services. Your ad gives information about your business and a unique phone number to contact you. Users can click on your text and read about your business at no cost to you. You pay if, and only if...
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