UPFRONT - Copyright and Fair Use - at the Top of Many Agendas

FOCUS - "The Ever Changing Nature of Copyright and Fair Use: Where Are We Today?" by Lisa Livingston, UW-Madison

LINES - February News Highlights

UW NEWS - GWETC A2P Deadline Extended, UW-Platteville Offers New Online Courses, Wisconsin WebFair, TTT

VC 'ICEBREAKER' REQUEST - Subscribers Respond to Videoconferencing Question

ED - Breaking Even with Online Education, Degrees Behind Bars, New Ed Sec Likes Ed Tech, New Administration Proposes to Shift Responsibility for K-12 Teacher Training Programs to the States, "New Media" Careers on the Horizon?

BIZ/GOV/ED - Media Lab Expands to India, Profit for Some For-Profits, eLearning in Harder Economic Times

COPYRIGHT - Copyright/DE Concerns

TECH/TOOLS - Software for Concept Mapping, Snacks and ImageBlender, eLearning Survey Results, Virtual World is Taking Shape in Research Labs

READS/RESOURCES - EDEN Publication, New Free Online Newsletter, F-Light, Models for Learning Technologies

ISSUES/CHALLENGES - Web site for the Blind, Report Claims Digital Divide May be Shrinking, Programs to Help Digital Divide May Be Cut Back, LAAP Award of $1.8 Million for Open Access Standards, Colleges Focus on Making Web Sites Work for People With Disabilities

NEW ON THE LIST - Welcome to New Subscribers

FYI - News, Conferences, Events

ENDNOTE - The Epoch of the Nanosecond - from Faster by James Gleick
According to James Gleick, the author of Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, "We have reached the epoch of the nanosecond. This is the heyday of speed. 'Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man,' laments Czech novelist Milan Kundra, "suggesting by ecstasy a state of simultaneous freedom and imprisonment." '(Man) is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time outside time...' "That is our condition, a culmination of millennia of evolution in human societies, technologies and habits of mind." Gleick says that we are reckless if we close our eyes to the acceleration of our world. From Gleick's perspective, we need to "struggle to perceive the process of change even as we ourselves are changing." Not an easy task.

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