Friends/
I am pleased to announce the publication of my abstract for
my planned
presentation at the forthcoming 3rd International
Plagiarism Conference
/
" Transforming Practice for an Authentic Future" /
23 - 25 June 2008 /
City Campus East / Northumbria University /
Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK.
/Gerry
Day 2 / Wednesday / 25th June 2008
2.00 pm - 3.00 pm
Keynote 4
Gerry McKiernan
Iowa State University, US.
_Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come:
(Re)Use / (Re)Mix
/ (Re)New_
Hadrian's Wall is a stone and turf fortification built by
the Roman
Empire across the width of modern-day England. ... [It was]
117
kilometres long, ... [I]ts width and height [were] dependent
on the
construction materials [that] ... were available nearby. ...
[T]he wall
in the east follow[ed] the outcrop of a hard, resistant
igneous diabase
rock escarpment. ... Local limestone was used in the
construction,
except for ... section[s] in the west ... where turf was
used instead
... . The Broad Wall was initially built with a clay-bonded
rubble core
and mortared dressed rubble facing stones, but this seems to
have made
it vulnerable to collapse, and repair with a mortared core
was sometimes
necessary.... [I]n time ... [Hadrian's] Wall was abandoned
and fell into
ruin. Over the centuries and even into the twentieth century
a large
proportion of the stone was reused in other local
buildings.
Throughout history, humans have (re)used local resources to
create not
only buildings and fortifications, but monuments, roads, and
a wide
variety of other structures. For countless generations,
artists,
composers, and writers have freely incorporated elements
from local and
distant cultures to create new visual, musical, and textual
forms.
In The Web 2.0 World, the open (re)combination of multiple
media has
become commonplace in many venues, practices that Lawrence
Lessig,
founder of Creative Commons, and others, would characterize
as
emblematic of a 'Remix ' or 'Read/Write' culture. Indeed,
from his point
of view, *the health, progress, and wealth creation of a
culture is
fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process.*
In the recently-released Horizon Report 2008 - a joint
publication of
the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning
Initiative
(ELI), six emerging information technologies and practices
that are
expected to significantly impact educational organizations
are profiled:
Grassroots Video, Collaborative Webs, Mobile Broadband, Data
Mashups,
Collaborative Intelligence, and Social Operating Systems
In this presentation, we will review the Read/Write
Traditions of the
Arts, Humanities, and Sciences; analyze key Past / Present /
Future
Participatory Technologies; and explore the potential of Web
2.0 for
creating/fostering Disruptive Learning / Scholarship /
Teaching in the
21st century.
Access To The Full Programme Of Excellent Presentation Topic
Abstracts
(With Links To Keynote And Guest Speaker Bios ) AND Links
Within My
Abstract Is Available At:
[
http://scholarship20.blogsp
ot.com/2008/04/disruptive-scholarship-idea-whose-time.html
]
OR
[ http://tinyurl.com/47gwc9 ]
I would appreciate Any/All Feedback on the theme of my
presentation (as
you will read, it's is open to wide interpretation) and/or
relevant
cites/sites.
***Please Make Recommendations As Comments on The Blog
Entry***
Thanks A Million!
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck iastate.edu
There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has
Come
Victor Hugo
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ttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ]
Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind
Blows
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ternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]
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