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Teaching the Ethics of Online Copyright Issues

It’s been awhile since the astronomical fees levied by the music industry on people who had illegally downloaded popular songs made international headlines. Last week, however, we got a reminder of the risks of pirating copyrighted content.
Voltage Pictures, the production company that produced the Oscar winning film The Hurt Locker, announced that they plan to [...]

A Teaching Moment: This is Twepardy!

I spend Sunday afternoons putting together my lessons for the coming week. On Tuesday I had a lecture and class discussion on microblogging scheduled. About halfway through creating my PowerPoints I realized how incredibly boring a lecture on microblogging would be.
I scrapped the lecture idea and instead spent the next five hours developing Twepardy – [...]