Academe Links May 23, 2007

Does Pearson's purchase of eCollege give it the muscle to compete with Blackboard?

http://fm.schmoller.net/2007/05/pearson_buys_ec.html

Crowd sourcing against perpetual copyright http://everydayliteracies.blogspot.com/2007/05/crowd-sourcing-against-perpetual.html

Got Term Papers for Sale? Google Won't Help You Advertise It http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/05/2007052305n.htm?rss

New AERA SIG: Applied Research for Virtual Environments for Learning http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=ARVEL

Tool: Tangler

http://www.tangler.com/

Call for papers: Teaching Writing with Technology http://kairosnews.org/call-for-papers

How to Prepare New Courses While Keeping Your Sanity http://amps-tools.mit.edu/tomprofblog/archives/2007/05/800_how_to_prep.html#more

Forrester’s survey of professors would’ve been better if… http://www.ikiw.org/2007/05/22/forresters-survey-of-professors-wouldve-been-better-if/

Proposed Legislation Would Make Attempted Copyright Infringement a Crime http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/ippa-20070514.pdf

But is Wikipedia the Answer? (Critique this Post) http://www.traffick.com/2007/05/but-is-wikipedia-answer-critique-this.asp

Resource/Tool: DailyLit

http://www.dailylit.com/

Resource: American Sign Museum

http://www.signmuseum.com/

Tool: New Exalead Video Search Launched (Beta) http://blog.exalead.com/2007/05/new_exalead_vid.html

The New Google Homepage in Perspective

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-23-n45.html

Tool: RadiusIM

http://www.radiusim.com/

Resource: Copyright in the Digital Age Teleconference

http://www.dupagepress.com/COD/index.php?id=1281

Tool: Gapminder

http://dltj.org/2007/05/data-visualization/

R. C. Rybnikar

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