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School / Work Affiliation: Folsom Lake College, Los Rios Community College District

Skype Account: zack.dowell

Twitter / Plurk / Other Account: zackdowell

About Me: Educational technologist, circuit bender, teacher, organic gardener, musician, diy/open source/oer/copyleft enthusiast

I am a faculty member at Folsom Lake College.

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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

Posted on May 18, 2009 at 2:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Some interesting examples here.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

Educational Uses of Back Channels for Conferences, Museums, and Informal Learning Spaces

Posted on May 12, 2009 at 2:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Blog post from Museum 2.0

http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2009/03/educational-uses-of-back-channels-for.html

The key lessons at the bottom are fantastic and thought provoking.

Illegal Email - LOL WUT?

Posted on May 8, 2009 at 3:02pm 2 Comments 0 Likes

Santa Rosa Junior College claims that student/faculty private emails at Google, Yahoo, etc. containing the acronym sjrc are "illegal"

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090507/ARTICLES/905079854/1350

So much for the Singing Railroad Jamboree Club I was going to start.... Maybe I'm safe because I don't work there?

Dumb.

Churches ask: WWJD (in 140 Characters or Less)

Posted on May 5, 2009 at 2:10pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

US churches use Twitter to reach a wider audience

"Pastors in Westwinds Community Church in Michigan spent two weeks teaching their congregation about Twitter, which allows users to send messages to each other which are no longer than 140 characters. Of the church's 900 adult members, 150 are now tweeting."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5274071/US-churches-use-Twitter-to-reach-a-wider-audience.html

Haptic History - Humanistic Fabrication

Posted on May 1, 2009 at 5:30pm 1 Comment 0 Likes

Friday afternoon mindblow - exciting and visceral ideas about experiencing/interacting with/interpreting history:

http://digitalhistoryhacks.blogspot.com/2008/11/few-arguments-for-humanistic.html

Turkel, William J. Digital History Hacks: Methodology for the Infinite Archive (2005-08). [Weblog.]

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At 5:32pm on May 18, 2009, Mark Cruthers said…: Hi Zack,

Thought you might find this upcoming online public class on Learning in a Virtual Class interesting.

Learning in Virtual Classroom by Nellie Deutsch

Get your own Virtual Classroom

At 10:11pm on May 12, 2009, Donelle said…: Hi! Please fill out Alice Mercer's Google Doc regarding setting up future meetings in Sac. It will just take a minute. Thanks for your feedback. :)

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cjA5MEN3djVhY3ROSEc0WUotNkhSNXc6MA

At 10:00pm on May 10, 2009, Donelle said…: Hi Zack. I just read that my high school students have been invited to attend an event at Folsom Lake College for prospective students to “Get Connected”. Are you helping with that event?

At 7:32pm on April 26, 2009, Donelle said…: If you go to this link you can comment about future follow up meetings like the one we had yesterday. http://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/followup-to-sacarmento-cr-20