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Subject: 1/12/2005 - The Chronicle's Wired Campus Newsletter
THE WIRED CAMPUS
A daily glance at education-technology headlines
for Wednesday, January 12.
A service of The Chronicle of Higher Education

FROM THE CHRONICLE:

"College Textbooks and Lab Equipment Arrive in Baghdad"
More than $5.5-million in donated textbooks and laboratory
equipment have arrived in Baghdad for distribution at more than
a dozen Iraqi colleges.
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i19/19a03302.htm>


"Penn State Hopes to Decrease Plagiarizing From Internet"
Administrators at Pennsylvania State University at University
Park have asked student-government leaders to help spread
information about how to avoid unintentionally plagiarizing
information from the Internet.
(The Daily Collegian)
<http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2005/01/01-12-05tdc/01-12-05dnews-03.asp>

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CATCHING DIGITAL CHEATERS
Learn how to write proper quotations, citations, and bibliographies.
Find website sources that are used by cheaters and find the website
sources that are use to fight digital cheating.
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/plagiarism.html>
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"Free Opera for Higher Education"
The upstart browser company Opera hopes to take a bite out of
Microsoft's Internet Explorer by offering free site licenses to
colleges. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology have already taken the company up on its offer.
(Silicon.com)
<http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39127008,00.htm>

"Videos Quick, Easy, and Automatic"
Campus downloaders may have a new tool, and movie studios a new
nemesis: Videora, designed by a student at Carleton University,
in Canada, combines file-sharing and RSS technology to help
Internet users automatically find and download video files.
(Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,66231,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3>

"IT Company Sues University for Loss of Business"
A software company has sued Victoria University of Technology,
in Australia, for $36.5-million (U.S.) in a dispute over
intellectual property that the business owners developed while
teaching at the institution.
(The Australian)
<http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11924356%255E421,00.html>

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Who owns the IP in Education?
Corporate work-for-hire Concept (how it works now)
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