Educause 09 Roundup: Day 2/3

This entry is a bit late but will try and sum up the last two days of a well done Educause event.

Copywrite What? - Day two didn't really bring anything new to the table for me but Prof. Lessig (http://www.lessig.org/) changed that for me explaining more about copywrite laws. If you don't know, Prof. Lessig teaches at Stanford University and has written many books about copywrite laws and how they stand today. The way he presented his material about copywrite laws was very interesting to me and just makes me understand a little bit more about this monster we know as copywriting. He touched on some stories in his own life that has lead to copywrite misuse. He gave the history of the copywrite law and how it is being applied today. How the culture has changed and yet copywrite is still the same beast it was 30 years ago when the internet wasn't around and we were excited about computers printing out binary code. I do like the way he presents and if you ever want to see any of his presentations, check him out on youtube and you will see what I mean.

You get a Vendors, and You get a Vendor... - I have never seen so many vendors in my life talking, showing and presenting about their products. The only thing about this was so many companies are doing teaching and learning based products. It seems those are the money makers while management, storage and administration tools aren't high on the business' radar. I was walking and talking to many vendors but couldn't be a major contributer to the product as I have no say in teaching/learning products. I feel the converence is geared more so to teaching/learning and less on administration services.

The first day had a lot more informaiton I felt was important and the overall conference was exciting/fun. I would say anyone from the educational world should go to at least one in their educational career.