SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, invites faculty to help students showcase their views on the value of openly sharing information. Make a two-minute video, post it on the Internet with a Creative Commons license and enter the contest to win $1,000. The Internet gives us ways to discover, collaborate and create in unprecedented ways, the SPARC invitation states, and the free exchange of information is a tool for addressing world problems. Applications for the contest are due Dec. 2, 2007.

SPARC is an alliance supported and funded by hundreds of academic libraries and research institutions.

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Date: September 6, 2007
Time: 2:00pm Eastern
To register: http://www.1105info.com/igdkfde_xzebraw.html

From a Campus Technology email: “Social networking expert Howard Rheingold and Boston College’s Jerry Kane share strategies for using wikis and other Web2.0 technologies to stimulate discussion, capture and share knowledge, and better support students and improve their academic performance. In this free, one-hour webinar moderated by Campus Technology’s Matt Villano and sponsored by Socialtext, you will learn from your peers in education how to:

* Create online communities that extend learning beyond the traditional classroom
* Generate rich, interactive and up-to-date course curriculum
* Reduce email traffic, while better capturing and sharing knowledge
* Provide flexible, collaboration tools for student, faculty and staff”

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