Our system of law doesn’t acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren’t so tidy. They’re layered, they’re interwoven, they’re tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality… the system starts to fail.

It takes place on Tuesday 21st February 2012, so here are 10 great resources if you are planning to use the day in your teaching:

In 2008, Nick Rhead, 24, and Simon Jackson, 26, then medical students, volunteered to give young people training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in Liverpool. "We had 11 in the group, aged 11 to 17, some in school uniform," Nick says. "We asked who had seen a stabbing or had been stabbed. Every one of them put up their hands. Three had seen shootings. That's what gave us the idea."

The two, now junior doctors at Aintree hospital, worked with Steve Boote, the restorative justice co-ordinator for the Liverpool Young Offenders service, to establish the Liverpool Project. 

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People are talking about digital tech’s opportunity to improve the classroom. Much of the discussion has been focused on digital textbooks. Apple’s recent announcement of iBooks for education has caused a stir over whether texts delivered on an expensive and propriety device like the iPad are really feasible.

Meanwhile at the university level, many schools are dipping their toes in the promise of a digital future, and it’s not just about textbooks. The folks at OnlineUniversities.com have compiled the infographic below that explores the pros and cons of various platforms and technologies that have found their way into the halls of higher ed.

The words of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan – “Educating people is the most valuable investment” – are now being applied to social networks as well.

The universities in UAE have realized that if they want better interaction with their current or prospective students; they need to resort to social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr.

In the fast growing age of technology, universities are increasingly keen on utilizing the internet and social networking as a part of their education process

All goo.gl URLs and click analytics are public and can be shared by anyone.

We all know how frustrating junk emails can get. They clog up our email inbox and make us waste precious time cleaning them up. To make matter worse, these spam sometimes come with viruses or worms that make your system gohaywire. But all these meant little for the conned victims who actually believed in the fraudulent content and lost their money paying for ‘ransoms’ or ‘charity causes’.
Apart from a reliable spam filter software or plugin for your email client, there are still a few more things we should do to kill spam. 

British Pathe is one of the world’s oldest media companies. Their website has an amazing archive of some of the world’s oldest footage and programmes.

Many students dislike having to carry around piles of heavy books – in fact sometimes they dislike doing it so much they purposely leave them at home! Digital textbooks would make this a problem of the past. Students would only need to bring an iPad to school, something that many are doing anyway in some educational institutions.

Another big problem with textbooks, as we all know, is that they are often out of date as soon as they are printed but going digital would negate the need to constantly purchase the most up-to-date physical version of a text. With Apple's latest technology, textbooks can be revised via an update in iBooks. This has got to be a good thing.

On Friday 17 February 2012, JISC Advance will seek proposals to enhance or repurpose existing resources to be used in the FE and Skills sector across the UK. This £1.4 million project will both improve the learner experience and increase provider efficiencies, in line with sector policies throughout the UK.

This opportunity is two-fold and offers sector providers and agencies the chance to:

• apply existing resources (from JISC or elsewhere) to their work and adapt them for their needs
• identify gaps in these resources or current uses for technology leading to the development of additional resources for the sector.

An initial £450,000 will be available to adapt existing resources with a further £900,000 available for development projects to address any gaps.

When you copy and paste a message from another Skype conversation into the current chat window, the message will be quoted with its original sender and a time stamp. Many users may not like this feature, because their contacts will know that they are just copying messages from somewhere else. Luckily, it can be disabled by changing Skype settings.

Takeaway: The consumerization of IT is upon us — dragging numerous misconceptions in its wake. See how some recent reports have debunked a few common myths about BYOD.

With all the talk about the threat IT faces as the result of the ongoing consumerization of IT, this ought to surprise you: New data is out that shows the switch to consumerization is going more smoothly — and a lot more quickly — than most onlookers expected. Here are the top 10 myths of consumerization, debunked.

Takeaway: The rise of consumerisation and on-demand services means business relationship managers need to foster IT innovation, not stifle it.

The realisation that enterprise IT had to manage relationships actively with the business - a hateful term - was one of the main IT organisational consensus points of the past decade.

CIOs everywhere rushed to created CIO Mini-Me’s - business relationship managers acting as the interface between business units and IT. I know - I was one for several years.

In effect, these business relationship managers had three main functions.

The Alphabet in Film:

Animations that quiz your movie knowledge. How many titles can you name?