Author Archives: Alvin Trusty

Tyranny of Filtering

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

I managed to squeeze in an extra podcast this week. Teachers Teaching Teachers #95 dives into filtering first hand with the people that run the filters in an assortment of districts. The panelists ranged from a New York City department … Continue reading →

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Google Docs

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Google Docs is another one of those applications that everyone is clammering about as a Word replacement. It is a free web-based word processor that has incredible “sharing” features. Without installing software, you can create a document and then share … Continue reading →

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Lecture Copyright

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Here’s a gem from Techdirt about a professor that is suing someone for selling notes of his lecture. He is claiming he has a copyright on what he says in class and someone else can’t take his ideas, write them … Continue reading →

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News

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

I’m from Google and my wife is from Yahoo. Yet we both get the same headlines every day. Actually she has Yahoo as her start page while I use Protopage as mine. Her news is right there in Yahoo. Mine … Continue reading →

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Turnitin’s method is fair use

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Last year a group of students decided to fight back against the plagiarism tool being used by their school. Before submitting an assignment to Turnitin, one of the students submitted all the legal documents to register the original paper as a copyrighted … Continue reading →

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