HigherEdBlogCon

Elizabeth Townsend Gard and I will be panelists in the HigherEdBlogCon from April 3-7, 2006. We will be discussing legal aspects of podcasting in teaching and higher eduction. It will be done via a screencast. I've never screencasted before, so, in addition to getting to work with Elizabeth and also deal directly with people inovlved in the HigherEd group, I'm looking forward to trying out this technology.

Here's a brief summary of our 2-part presentation.

Colette Vogele and Elizabeth Townsend Gard will explore the legal aspects of podcasting in teaching and higher education. Colette is the author of the new Podcasting Legal Guide (soon to be available at Creative Commons and the Center for Internet and Society) and Elizabeth focuses her research on copyright in an academic environment. Colette will explain legal basics surrounding podcasting, and Elizabeth will focus on the higher education environment, particularly podcasting the traditional classroom. The presentation will address copyright, trademark, and right of publicity/privacy questions that arise in the context of podcasting in the teaching scenario. Copyright questions have to do primarily with third-party materials that are used in the podcast, and the rights under which the podcasting teacher wishes to distribute her content. Traditional licensing, Creative Commons licensing, and public domain dedications would be addressed. Questions about ownership of the podcast content (e.g., the institution vs. the teacher?) would also be discussed. Elizabeth will focus the second part on "What questions should we ask when we podcast the traditional classroom?" This will look at at the specifics of Section 110 of the Copyright Act , which includes both exceptions to using copyrighted materials in the traditional face-to-face classroom teaching and the additional recent exceptions added with the TEACH Act. How does podcasting change classroom choices? What choices do podcasters have when podcasting the classroom? This part will also look at the additional issues of ownership of the podcasted lecture and student work that is podcasted.

I just learned we only have a half of an hour for this presentation, so we may need to be brief on all these topics!