Where to put presentations and how to find info. about sources

On Feb 12, 2019, at 16:16, Paul Beaufait wrote:

Hi G...,

I was thinking of you earlier today, ....

... your questions about pres. storage and retrieval sites, and identifying copyright material in extant presentations, might be a bit wide of the PSG's self-circumscribed remit. You still might [want to] inquire of JALT CALL SIG folk. Nevertheless, here's my two-cents['] worth. 

You're right about LinkedIn's appeal outside academic circles. I opted for SlideShare years ago, for ease of use as I recall–probably before integration with LinkedIn. However, I've been unable to find any spec's for free storage space today. Once you've uploaded to Slideshare (PDFs were recommended), content becomes virtually static, i.e., un-collabor-able. That is, unless you consider deep-diving (threaded) discussions [in comments] collaborative, which they may well become in certain other venues. I don't recall ever encountering or engaging in discussions like that on Slideshare.

You didn't mention how many previous presentations you'd like to publicize. Since Dec. last year, however, I've been bouncing against the ceiling for free storage space on Google (all sorts of content counted together: Gmail, PDFs, photos, videos[,] ... – but not including Google-native Docs and Slides). That has been even though Google offers more space for free (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/01/google-hasnt-updated-gmail-drive-photos-storage-limit-in-5-years.html) than does MS OneDrive (https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-US/plans/).

Regarding possibly copyright or otherwise licensed material in ready-made presentations, if it's images you're concerned about, Google (or other) image searches might turn up original sources and contextual authorship/licensing details. On blogs or other websites, I've found, those details usually appear on top pages and in page footers. 

YouTube once unceremoniously removed sound from a video I'd mixed with a tune that had come pre-packaged in the Mac video software that I'd used to produce it. Rather than attempt to argue (or litigate) the point against YouTube's done-deal, I simply replaced the tune with similar licks from a free music source. [A similar tactic may serve for image or text mash-ups.]

Searches for text snippets you'd like to retrieve and acknowledge [the]... sources for might turn up periodicals (behind paywalls) or books (with sample pages visible on Amazon) as well. Covers and copyright pages of books (or previous citations with publication details) may be visible in or accessible via search results. Newsy articles may no longer be accessible at original URLS, if at all.

Rediscovering exact page numbers for reference citations can be time-consuming if not troublesome. Requesting full texts of periodical articles from authors (via Academia or ResearchGate) or sending inquiries to journal editors are options. Both such sources may be keen on planned or projected citations.

The best advice I can offer is forward-looking; collect all the details you think you may need–and more, when you first encounter suitable source material. 

If you do find primers covering those sorts of intellectual property rights re-discovery [emphasis added], please point them out to me! I'll be happy to add them to the PSG's Diigo Group bookmarks.

Warm regards,

PB

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WSBlog Bedtime + Best Biblio's and PFs

Eight years I plugged away at chronicling, filtering, modelling, showcasing, recycling, reflecting, and reviewing in posts for students on the Writing Studio Blog (WSBlog). During that time, I learned a lot about blogging with students, and there have been several satisfying advances in Blogger blog affordances as well, for example the advent of pages, and the threading of comments on posts.

Blogger renamed widgets gadgets, and baked many new ones in, which made them easy for casual bloggers such as English-as-an-additional-language learners to use. The link roll on the WSBlog has grown to almost a page in length, and the label cloud, to almost a page and a half (actual size). Embeddable external-source gadgetry like Cluster Maps and Flag Counter indicate[s] that the WSBlog had over 7,000 (perhaps not unique) visitors in the four years up till November 2014, and that there have been well over 18,000 page views since August 2010.

Though I'm relatively certain that those aren't the largest numbers in the blogosphere, they're large enough to reflect on with a certain degree of satisfaction. Regrettably, however, RSS services that colleagues and I had adopted to concatenate feeds of independent learner blog entries for inclusion in our teaching blogs went the way many free or inexpensive services do, and workarounds never quite made it back to the stage of single feeds to display posts from multiple blogs in now standard RSS gadgets–so much to do, and so little time to do it.

Before I put the WSBlog into suspended animation (from which it might snore itself awake from time to time), I'd like to do one more little bit of showcasing–this time not for students in successive cohorts, but rather for those in classes which finished meeting last month. They sat exams on January 28, 2015.

To wrap things up for now, I'd like to point out to class members and their near-peers a few of the best bibliographies–modified APA-style lists of books that individual students reviewed, and the most reflective portfolios (PFs) in pages that students added or linked to their blogs.

• Students, please remember that if you aren't logged in to your university accounts, Google documents and spreadsheets stored on the university site will be invisible. 

• Please also note that for the PFs themselves, the writing before, between and after the iframes was more important than the activities and progress represented within the iframes.

Without further adieu, ...

Best biblio's (book listings):

1. Takahiro's, 
2. Nana's, and
3. Rina's (includes a good first go at a movie listing, too); and 

Best PFs:

1. Misaki's
2. Miri's and Nana's (tie), and
3. Kazuyo's.

Many thanks to all!

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Grammar Resources - University of Chicago Writing Program

The Grammar Resources page on the University of Chicago Writing Program website introduces students to "grammar and writing resources from around the web" (¶1). In addition to main sections covering various grammar, usage and style guides, there are sections explaining and pointing out resources for scientific and technical writing as well as for non-native speakers of English (see the sidebar on the site for details).

I'm so impressed with that webpage that I've bookmarked it already for the WinK Core: Weblogging in Kumamoto group on Diigo, and will add it to the Course Links list in the Writing Studio Blog sidebar right away.

Reference

The University of Chicago Writing Program. (n.d.). Grammar resources [webpage]. Retrieved from http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/grammar.htm

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