Chesklist for online facilitators

This checklist for online facilitators http://www.humboldt.edu/~aof/aof.htm just became available. It is from CATS, the Community of Academic Technology Staff:http://cats.cdl.edu/

Free online textbooks may have a future

Free online textbooks http://collegeopentextbooks.org/businessbooks.html The Community College Open Textbook Collaborative* (CCOTC), funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is a collection of colleges, governmental agencies, educational nonprofits, and other education-related organizations is working to develop online textbooks for community college students.
NC State gives students access to free online textbooks http://chronicle.com/blogPost/North-Carolina-State-U-Gives/21238/
It looks like the era of free online textbooks is approaching. Some older students may print out the content, but I bet the younger students will be reading online.

Online-teacher-mentor-roles: Criticism and Fair Use

Online-teacher-mentor-roles: Criticism and Fair Use
http://blogs.geniocity.com/friedman/2010/02/archers-daniel-midland-abuses-copyright-law-to-censor-criticism/
I, too, had always thought that criticism was fair use. Obviously, this is not true if the criticism comes in the form of a video.