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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Food…Glorious Food!
Last week’s post on copyright & Creative Commons was a little heavy, so let’s lighten it up this week on Learning for Life Online! It’s fall in New England, the time of year when the scent of wood smoke, crisp … Continue reading
Posted in Resources, This Week on LLO
Tagged allrecipes.com, america's test kitchen, apps, blogs, cook's illustrated, cookstr, epicurious, everyday things, food network, fun, how to cook everything, joy of cooking, mobile devices, online resources, recipe source, recipes, rodale, simply recipes, surprisingly useful tools, whole foods app
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Copyright vs. Creative Commons licenses
This week on Learning for Life Online, we’ll take a quick look at the idea of copyright, and how the idea of protecting your creative work has been changed by the internet. What is Copyright? In the United States, copyright … Continue reading
Posted in This Week on LLO, Tips for Living Life Online
Tagged ala copyright tools, archive.org, copyright, creative commons, finding stuff online, flickr, images, library of congress, life online, mashups, online citizenship, open courseware, open library, openphoto.net, photos, public domain, publicdomainpictures.net, scoop.it, seraching, tumblr, videos
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eBooks – Where to find them
In our last ebook post, let’s look at the many places to find ebooks online. Across the web, you can find ebooks for free and for pay, major bestsellers and independent works. Some authors give away ebooks and entice you … Continue reading
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Tagged aldiko, apps, archive.org, baen books, boston public library, copyright, creative commons, ebooks, ebooks.com, ereader, ereaders, google books, ibooks, kindle, kobo, lulu, mit press, nook, open library, overdrive, powells books, project gutenberg, public domain, scribd, smashwords, stanza, wikibooks
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The Only Constant is Change
We’ll be taking a short break from ebooks this week to talk about one of the skills necessary for living life online: being comfortable with change. “Nothing but change endures.” Whether we know this quote from Heraclitus or Isaac Asimov, … Continue reading