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ELI Featured and General Sessions Archives and LIVE links

Created by Catherine Yang (EDUCAUSE) on January 29, 2008

ELI Annual Conference Featured and General Sessions are now available through the Sonic Foundry ELI Annual Conference web page.

 

URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Pending Illegal File Sharing Legislation Harmful to Higher Education

Created by Catherine Yang (EDUCAUSE) on November 10, 2007

Leaders of the House Committee on Education and Labor have just introduced legislation to control illegal file sharing in higher education as part of the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007. The higher education community opposes a provision that requires campuses to develop new institutional plans for addressing infringement activities on their networks.

Please call (do not write or email) the offices of the House Committee on Education and Labor. Time is short. Markup is this coming Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 9:00 AM.

For specific details please see our talking points.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

1. Coordinate your response to this challenge with your institutional executives and federal relations officers.

2. Call, do not write or email, as many of the Committee Members as possible, and express your strong opposition to this proposal. You can find a list of all the Committee members and their phone numbers.

Google's New Map Service

Created by Catherine Yang (EDUCAUSE) on February 08, 2005

Google has a new Map Service in beta...the results appear to be much cleaner than Mapquest, although I have not yet tested the accuracy of the maps/directions...

http://maps.google.com


Google's New Video Search

Created by Catherine Yang (EDUCAUSE) on February 04, 2005
Google's new video search, found at http://video.google.com is an ingenious implementation. They're using the text from the closed captioning to index the site...