John LeMasney

What follows is the Google Docs Presentation and Archive.org audio MP3 of a presentation to new faculty at Rider University concerning what’s available to them from Rider’s OIT. Enjoy!

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The New Jersey Ubuntu Local Community’s Summer 2008 Barbecue and LAN Party

Saturday, 23 August 2008 in Cherry Hill, Southern NJ and Butler, Northern NJ

At Both Locations: The Party starts at 14:00 (2PM) Barbecue starts at 17:00 (5PM) The Party ends at 02:00 (2AM) Sunday

Cost: $5

Burgers, ‘Dogs, and other essentials provided Bring your own drinks, sides, and desserts

http://nj.ubuntu-us.org/LAN

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I’m a student, and I’m out there. I’m on FriendFeed, YouTube, and lots of other services, sharing stuff, putting out ideas, and being generally socially open. Suppose I’m a student who’s not doing all of that, and isn’t necessarily very open. Then, put me in a class where I’m asked to do an assignment where I have to record a video as the main crux of the assignment, and immediately post it on YouTube.

Is there a conflict of interest between my want to get a good grade and my want to protect my privacy?

There’s lots of solutions for this issue: alternative ways to complete the assignment, such as an animated short with voiceover, the ability to make the video private, the ability to do a video slideshow of related photos, the ability to submit the video via a private website, etc.

However, in the scenario provided, what would eliminate a potential conflict of interest? Would a waiver do it? Could a student sign away their right to own their likeness? Should the student be allowed to opt out? Suppose the student feels pressured into signing the waiver or opting in in order to appear as an active participant in classwork?

From a teacher standpoint, enabling privacy in YouTube can be a major hassle, and once the video has been accessed, it can be downloaded and manipulated, of course, adding another whole layer of student privacy endangerment. A student could unknowingly become the next StarWarsKid.

Does anyone have any experience with this issue? Have you used YouTube in assignments or been asked to use YouTube to complete an assignment where your likeness was used? How were these issues dealt with or not? Thanks in advance and looking forward to comments!

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Here’s some photos I took at Art All Night in Trenton - it was a great time for sure.

John.

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Janie Hermann of Princeton Public Library graciously invited me and others to participate in a Pecha Kucha night at PPL this coming Tuesday, June 3rd. I had such a great time!! Thanks, Janie, Pete, Romina, Julie, and Bob - I had a blast.

Pecha Kucha Night

Pecha Kucha, the Japanese phrase for “the sound of conversation”, is a phenomenon that is spreading across the globe in a variety venues. Join the PPL Tech Team and several invited guests for an evening of fast-paced presentations in the “20×20 format: where each panelist has exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds along with 20 images to cover a current technology trend or topic of their choosing. See if they can do it and then join in the conversation about Web 2.0 and technology. Confirmed panelists for the evening include Peter Bromberg, Nicole Engard, Romina Gutierrez, Janie Hermann, Bob Keith, John LeMasney, and Julie Strange. To learn more about Pecha Kucha visit http://www.pecha-kucha.org/

Tuesday June 3, Community Room, 7 pm

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After beginning his approach on Wednesday evening, May 14th at about 6pm, David Thomas LeMasney was born in Princeton, NJ on Friday, May 16th, 2008 at 6:38 pm. We just were able to come home today, Tuesday May 20th, 2008, so please forgive the delay. For those of you who heard through the grapevine or got the preview email, please forgive the duplicate information.

He was born weighing 9 pounds, 6 ounces, was 21 inches long, and is absolutely beautiful.

Congratulations and thanks to Dawn, who is simply amazing, and recovering very well. Special thanks to Penny Bussel Stansfield, all in practice at Princeton Midwifery, Miss Sara, Grandma, and Aunt Agnes. Your teamwork was something to behold.

Thanks to all who wished us well, delivered dinner, and thought of us.

Pictures and video to appear at http://lemasney.com and more will be coming soon.

John (Dawn, David and Jack) LeMasney.

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Dawn’s water broke tonight about 6 pm - nothing yet, but won’t be long now. C’mon, boy!

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http://poetsonline.org/archive/arch_protest.html holds my most recent poem (Thanks, again, Ken!):

IN PROTEST

When you shake your head
while I’m speaking
what I know is the truth
I suppress a scream.

I can feel a protest rising in my throat
but I’ve learned to smother it
with a pillow
and slowly push in a knife
to quiet my convictions
to avoid a follow up sit down
written out reprimand.

I think back to times
when I said to myself
“I love what I’m doing
I’d do this for free
I’ll do this
for the rest of my life”

When we speak at each other
sometimes in gently increasing volume
and a sharpened tone,
raising our fingers
to note we’d like a chance to speak again
we’re not listening.

We’re just speaking.

We’re not in a dialogue
but two monologues.

You remind us very often
that this is not a democracy
and that if we don’t fit in here
we should leave
and my chest tightens when I hear it.

Having to leave would mean
starting over with
devils I don’t know,
demons I don’t care about,
daemons I don’t run
anymore.

You removed them from my care,
and it was of the greatest valence to me
in this work of service and bits.
And I have always felt
calm in this place,
until recently.

John LeMasney

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I was graciously invited to read some of my poetry on the 2008 edition of the Princeton Public Library’s Poetry Podcast, which allows poets to share their work visually and verbally in podcast form. It’s a fantastic way to share this kind of information using technology (one of my favorites, WordPress) but also a very fitting and poignant way to celebrate National Poetry Month.

Check out what happened at:
http://pplpoetpodcast2008.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/john-lemasney/

Thanks again to the kind, brilliant, hard working folks at Princeton Public Library for making this possible.

John.

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