Another day when nothing much is being
reported. Perhaps everyone is off rolling Easter eggs?
Sometimes, police work is easy...
Police:
Janitor stole laptop, then called for tech support
A Far South Side janitorial worker
charged with stealing a laptop from the U.S. EPA’s field office in
Chicago was busted after allegedly calling the computer maker’s
help line for assistance when he couldn’t get it to work.
Alan Baker, 35, of the 13000 block of
South Houston Avenue, was on a temporary assignment at the EPA office
at the time a laptop and two smartphones were stolen in December,
according to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office.
Investigators figured
out Baker had the laptop when he contacted the
manufacturer’s help line for assistance, the sheriff’s office
said.
Imagine being the bad guy who stole
this card and facing one of “the Band of
Brothers-who-are-also-Judges” Can you say, “99 years!” (Maybe
now he would be willing to speak at one of the Privacy Foundation
Seminars?)
Chief
Justice John Roberts a victim of credit-card fraud
Anyone can fall victim to credit-card
fraud - even Chief Justice John Roberts.
A Supreme Court spokeswoman said
someone got hold of one of Roberts' credit card account numbers. No
further details were given.
However, the Washington Post reports
that Roberts told a Starbucks cashier in suburban Maryland that he
had to use cash for his morning coffee because he had canceled his
credit card after discovering someone had the number.
Could be useful...
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Open Educational Resources: From Khan to MIT
#1: MIT
OpenCourseWare
The MIT
OpenCourseWare website launched in 2002, and by 2007 MIT
put its entire curriculum online, free of charge.
#2: Connexions
Rice University's
Connexions is an OER
repository organized into independent modules that students can
access independently
#3 OpenStax
College
Another Rice
University project, OpenStax
College, aims to create complete, authoritative university
textbooks for subjects starting with physics, sociology and biology.
Basic downloads of these texts are free, and print-on-demand versions
can be purchased inexpensively.
#4 Khan Academy
Although the first
Khan Academy
videos targeted math education at the K-12 level,
#5: AMSER
AMSER
(the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of
educational resources and services aimed at community and technical
colleges but free for anyone to use.
#6: Center For
Open Educational Resources And Language Learning
The Center
for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning at the
University of Texas at Austin focuses on foreign language learning
#7: OER Commons
OER
Commons describes its mission as "curating best in class
learning materials from around the world since 2007." It covers
primary, secondary and post-secondary education
#8: Blended
Learning Toolkit
Blended
Learning Toolkit from the University of Central Florida is an
example of an open resource for building your own online curriculum.
Download one of its sample courses, such as this one on College
Algebra, and you get a set of Web templates you can load onto your
own server and use as the basis for an online course
#9: OER University
OER
University is a project of several higher education institutions
#10: MERLOT
MERLOT,
the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching,
is a repository and community website dedicated to OERs for higher
education,
#11: The Saylor
Foundation
Saylor.org
is yet another nonprofit site dedicated to organizing the best OERs
for higher education.
#12: Boundless
One of the things
that makes Boundless interesting (and controversial) is the way it
remixes OER materials into "alignments" with popular
textbooks from commercial publishers. Rather than simply downloading
an OER textbook, students can have it rearranged in such a fashion
that they can download and use it in place of the more expensive text
their professor actually assigned, knowing that it covers
approximately the same material.
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