Chris selected as K12OnlineConference keynote speaker Each year the K12OnlineConference provides tremendous professional development for free, and entirely online. This year, they have selected me as one of their keynote speakers. I am thrilled to have been chosen and look forward to participating in the conversation. Read the full post announcing all the keynote speakers here.
Two quick links on Cognitive Load Theory I've been fielding lots of questions lately about Cognitive Load Theory. Here are two quick links that may be useful. First is an article talking about the practical implications of CLT on the design of learning. The second are some "recent" (as of 2003) developments regarding CLT. Happy reading! Update: I clarified the second...
Practical advice on kids and Android app development After hearing about my students' success developing an Android app, I've gotten several emails asking for more details as to how I practically worked with my kids. Here are some pointers that I offered to the first person that emailed me, perhaps they are of some use to you. Please note that your mileage may vary. It's ok to not be...
Publishing an App Inventor app to the Android Market As I mentioned earlier, my students and I published an Android app to the Android Market. See those links for more information on the background. This post is decidedly technical. First, once we finished the coding process, we packaged the app for to download to the computer. This is an option in App Inventor. This downloaded an .apk file....
Designing and publishing an Android app with kids This post is designed to provide some context around how/why we decided to build this app. The more technical details of the code and how we published it will come in a future post. My students and I recently completed and published an Android app, and here's how we did it. First, the genesis for this goes back to a question I asked...
Mar
09
Category : Feeds
This is disconcerting. For the last few posts, I’ve gotten a pingback from a blog called http://opencontent.info/ (intentionally not linked) and I think they might be boosting my feed.
Weak.
Am I wrong, do you know about these folks?
What do I do? I am posting this before really thinking about it, so I might be missing something obvious here…
Update: I added opencontent.info to Spam Karma 2′s Domain Blacklist, so maybe that will fix it.
This sounds like theie SEO attempts. If they duplicate your items, contact/report them. Good luck!
I agree with Roy. It sounds like SEO attempts. Of course, they could be SEO attempts that bring traffic to their site or simply use trackback pings. Strange! I checked out their site, but I didn’t see a duplication of your blog only some messed up script. Maybe, that was your stuff? If so, your addition to Spam Karma 2 is working great. Sorry, I couldn’t really help.
The site isn’t coming up for me, but you do use a Creative Commons license, the whole point of which is to allow reuse of your work within certain limitations. Are they violating the terms of your license?
I would say so, given that I am using the fairly standard Attribution, Non-Commerical, ShareAlike license.
They violate this in a number of ways…
1. They don’t attribute me. Should I care? Not sure.
2. They looked to be trying to make money. Site seems to be gone now, though.
3. They don’t license their content under anything, let alone cc.
It seems moot, though, since the site seems gone. Sorry I didn’t articulate this earlier.
Chris
It’s not quite a moot point, as the number of these Dupli-blogs have been increasing lately. I see quite a few that pick up on my teaching blog and just recently ran across a pingback on a blog that was just setup a couple of months ago. It all depends on how much traffic a particular post and/or site is getting.
Tom’s right, a CC lisence will usually encourage more people to copy your feed (at one point I used to be syndicated on the Blog Juice for Education site), but if they’re making money from their site, then that’s not cool. I have noticed that most of my posts that are being duplicated also contain a link with my name and a short setence that says originally posted by, so I really can’t complain, but I still share concerns that someone may try to pass off my own thoughts as their own.
However, being in education, heck, just being on the web, means that theft or “borrowing” in general is usually encouraged. How many great ideas and tips for your classroom have been “borrowed” from other educators, how many quotes have been used by others, sometimes without remembering the original contributor. At the very least, it’s an interesting development that would make for a great discussion of the new era of copyright infringement.