Digital by Default Service Standard — Government Service Design Manual The Digital Service Standard has changed from 26 points to a more concise 18. From 1 June 2015 all transactional services will be assessed on the new 18 points. The Service Standard ensures digital teams build high quality government services. A transactional service must meet each criteria to pass the Government Digital Service assessment. Assisted digital support is an integral part of any service, helping users who can't complete the service on their own. Understand user needs.
Teaching Copyright in the Age of Computers and Mashups I wish I could say that teaching students about copyright is easy, because in a world where digital tools are making creating and sharing content easier than ever, understanding copyright is incredibly important. But intellectual property law is exceedingly complex, making even a nominal introduction to the ideas surrounding copyright -- copyright law, fair use, the public domain -- a challenge. Google tried its hand earlier this year, launching YouTube Copyright School, an effort to educate the video-sharing site's users about intellectual property law. Copyright School involves watching a 4-minute animation from Happy Tree Friends, then answering a series of multiple choice questions. But the popularity of Happy Tree Friends aside, 4 minutes is hardly long enough to teach the intricacies of copyright. "Contact a copyright attorney." This approach to intellectual property is something that the educational programming language Scratch has explored.
What is a Personal Learning Network? Wikipedia describes a personal learning network as an informal learning network that consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a personal learning environment . In a PLN, a person makes a connection with another person with the specific intent that some type of learning will occur because of that connection. A PLN is a reciprocal network that you create to learn from, connect with, gather information or resources, create with and finally share what you have learned. A PLN can occur in your school, face-to-face, online, at conferences or through reading, reflecting and sharing. Some more details: The Personal: Having a PLN is about making connections and building personal relationships with teachers, school administrators, university professors, and experts around the world. Source
Overview | Teaching Copyright As today's tech-savvy teens become increasingly involved with technology and the Internet for learning, work, civic engagement, and entertainment, it is vital to ensure that they understand their legal rights and responsibilities under copyright law and also how the law affects creativity and innovation. This curriculum is designed to give teachers a comprehensive set of tools to educate students about copyright while incorporating activities that exercise a variety of learning skills. Lesson topics include: the history of copyright law; the relationship between copyright and innovation; fair use and its relationship to remix culture; peer-to-peer file sharing; and the interests of the stakeholders that ultimately affect how copyright is interpreted by copyright owners, consumers, courts, lawmakers, and technology innovators. Unit Goals Educate students about copyright law, including the concepts of fair use, free speech, and the public domain. Objectives for Students Assessment
Why I had to unfollow you | Kirsty Marrins Today I unfollowed a charity on Twitter. I’m usually in the habit of following charities, not unfollowing them but it is the manner in which this charity tweets that compelled me to part ways with them. This time is was a case of ‘It’s not me, it is you’. I unfollowed them (and tweeted about it) and was just going to leave it at that. This was met with lots of agreement, from charity people and even charities themselves, as constructive criticism should help them improve. I’ve thought about it further though and these are the three cardinal Twitter sins this charity has committed: 1. 2. 3. As Leo Birch, Digital Marketing Coordinator at British Heart Foundation, so eloquently put it, this charity is committing “social media bad practice bingo!”. Any other examples you’d care to add that would compel you to unfollow an account? Like this: Like Loading... Digital Communications Consultant
Copyright | APRA AMCOS Australia Copyright is free and automatic That's right - you don’t have to do anything to ‘get’ copyright; it is there from the moment you write down the song. So as soon as you create a new song or piece of music, you have copyright in it. Here are some common misconceptions about what's needed to copyright your songs and compositions: Copyright law enables creators to make a living from their work. The Australian Copyright Act gives songwriters and composers the right to control how their music is used. We look after the performing, communication and mechanical copyright of songwriters, composers and music publishers in Australia. What is a performing right? Songwriters and composers own the right to have their original music performed in public. · play their songs/compositions live at a venue or an event · play a recording of their songs/compositions in a business, venue or workplace · have their songs/compositions used in a film or advertisement What is a communication right? APRA AMCOS vs.
20 Top Video Explanations to Help Teachers Become Tech Savvy Finally I finished reading The Art of Explanation: Making your Ideas, Products, and Services Easier to Understand , I am the kind of readers who love to read from cover to cover and I hate scanning and this is probably why it took me almost three weeks to finish it of course taking into account the time for my MAED studies and the time for my work. The Art of Explanation is a book written by the phenomenal Lefever in which he lays flat the secrets of making engaging video explanations. 1- Augmented reality explained 2- What are Apps ? 3-What is a Blog ? 4- What is BigTorrent ? 5- What is Big Data ? 6- Cloud Computing Explained 7- Computer Hardware explained 8- Computer Software explained 9- Computer viruses and threats 10- Crowdsourcing explained 11- Podcasting 12- Secure Passwords 13- Social Media 14- Social Bookmarking 15- Social Networking 16- Web Browsers 17- Web Search strategies 18- Website Cookies 19- World Wide Web
Music Communities Below is a list of exemplary music communities that utilize our tools, typically by enabling users to upload content under one of our free licenses. If there is a community we are missing, please add it to our wiki as this page is periodically updated. For more information, see our related page on Creative Commons Record Labels. SoundCloud Berlin, Germany Soundcloud is a music sharing community that allows artists to upload its works under the full suite of CC licenses. Free Music Archive Jersey City, NJ The Free Music Archive is a project from WFMU that focuses on aggregating and curating high quality, freely licensed content – the majority of which is CC-licensed. ccMixter San Francisco/San Diego, CA ccMixter is an online remix community focused on enabling derivative musical works on a large scale. Indaba Music New York City, NY Indaba Music is a hub for online collaboration between musicians. Bandcamp Jamendo OpSound Tribe of Noise Airborne restorm
Building a personal learning network | Teaching using web 2 Why building a personal learning network is important Lately I have been thinking a lot about personal learning networks and why they are important. Since writing a book with my class I have actively used my own personal network to promote the book and get attention. It has been great to have a vast and diverse list of educators as my Twitter and Facebook contacts. That has helped me and my students in the process of writing and then promoting the book after it was written and published online. PLN-3 (Photo credit: cbucky) A personal learning network is just like the network of teachers you work with at your school every day. Follow others as they follow you I’m letting you in on a secret here: some educators you follow will never follow you back. Extract from book, more to be found here: Like this: Like Loading... Categories: Did you know?
Music Rights Australia - Copyright FAQs What is copyright? Who owns the copyright in a piece of music? How do I know if a recording is still protected by copyright? Can I copy and distribute music even if I'm not making money out of it? What if I download music from a site from a different country than the one I'm in, where the law might be different? How do I know if the website I am using is legitimate? What are the penalties for breaching copyright? What is copyright? Copyright protects the expression of an idea by conferring exclusive rights on the owner; it encourages people to 'create'. In Australia, there is no need for copyright registration, nor is there a legal requirement to put a copyright notice on a piece of work. Who owns the copyright in a piece of music? In any given musical track, there is usually more than one copyright owner: The composer who wrote the music owns copyright in the musical works. Finally, the maker of the recording (typically a record company) owns copyright in the sound recording.