This is Helen. If you have yet to meet Helen who works out of the FLS office at CIT Southside, then you may also need to update your knowledge and awareness about Toolboxes!

The audio below is a short discussion between myself (Marg) and Helen at a recent Framework Toolboxes national meeting held in Melbourne, where all Champs across the country got together for two days of workshops, talk and sharing.

Helen ACT Toolbox Champ (MP3, 2.45mins, 2MB)

You can contact Helen via email (Helen.Lynch[at]cit.act.edu.au) or give her a ring on 6207 4031 to discuss Toolboxes and find out about the new Series 9 Toolboxes which have just been released. They include Interactive Ochre, Public Safety, Food Auditing, Metals Fabrication, and many others.

Images from Australian Flexible Learning Framework Toolboxes website.

http://www.library.act.gov.au/find/ebooks

 
This is a really interesting development in the ACT public libraries. They have a range of about 400 audio books and who knows how many e-books which can be downloaded from the library website.

The files have a little DRM on them which means that they self-delete (or something) after 21 days and need to be played with a particular player (Overdrive). They are all WMAs as well.

Still, it’s pretty interesting to see what’s available.

Over the next few weeks I’ll start updating you to the changes brought about by the latest copyright laws change. Please remember there a lot of changes, but in the blogs I’ll do topic specific ones, so a bit at a time.

 Today podcasts and vodcasts of broadcast content.

This change relates specifically to material that was originally broadcast on commercial or pay TV, and then was put onto a website for you to download as a podcast etc. We can now download and use this material even if the site says “for private and home use only”. You can download the material and use it in the classroom or in your online classroom. This will be done via the Screenrights licence, so all the conditions that apply to ‘off-air’ recordings apply to these pod or vod casts. As CIT is on a sampling method, all you need to do it put the copyright notice near the file, and record details of when you acquired it, just like an ‘off-air’ recording. Then next time we are being sampled you will need to record details of the podcast or vodcast just like you did with the recordings.

Please note – this does not apply to material you obtained via a creative commons licence, for that material you need to follow the terms of the licence, and remember to keep the CC logo with the material.

If you need help applying these changes to your own area, please give me a call on ext. 73158 or via email.

Vanessa