Then, on October 19, 1980, Andrews, just 44, suffered a fatal heart attack. Tom Wilson’s Ziggy and Cathy Guisewite’s Cathy as well as columns by Mary McGrory and William F. While Andrews focused on content and McMeel on sales, what was first christened Universal Press Syndicate brought readers in 1970 the rebellious comic strip Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau and the trenchant analysis of columnist Garry Wills. To hear John reminisce about the early days of the company that became Andrews McMeel Universal, you might have thought he and his partner, James Andrews ’61, were operating on a wing and a prayer - with more prayer than wing. McMeel, who passed away July 7 at 85, will go down in American media history as one of the founders and ambassadors of a new, more risk-taking brand of communication: newspaper funny pages with a satiric edge, opinion columns with deeper bite. “Deals” might have been John McMeel’s nickname in later life, but when he returned to Notre Dame he’d remind anyone within earshot that during his undergraduate days in the 1950s he was called “Wheels.” Son of a South Bend physician - a team doctor for Knute Rockne’s squads - McMeel ’57 had access to a forbidden conveyance: a car. The first part of this project involves locating resources in OER commons, and the second part of the project involves reflecting on the copyright and fair use rules you might establish for your students.If given the chance, he could have sold sandbags in the Sahara Desert, window air conditioners at the North Pole or bouquets of shamrocks in his beloved Ireland. The best single source to locate these resources is currently the OER commons.
CALVIN AND HOBBES CONVEYANCE FOR FREE
What are the rules defining what can and can't be uploaded and shared on your site? This project is designed to help you better understand the types of resources you can access legally and for free (Open Education Resources), and better understand the rules teachers need to follow in order to comply with federal copyright and fair use regulations guiding how any media (not just OER) can be used for instructional purposes.īefore you reflect on copyright and fair use issues, you need to learn more about the types of resources that are being made available to teachers that include licenses to use the resources for free.
In this course, you have completed a number of projects that present resources for instructional purposes that other people have created. You can read the specific Calvin & Hobbes copyright restrictions for educators on the publisher's website. The reason I could display the Calvin and Hobbs comic in a classroom but not online is because specific copyright rules for digital media can be defined by the copyright holder(s). But did you know that I do have permission to put the comic on a PowerPoint slide and used it as part of an in-class presentation? I can do this because of fair use laws provided to educators, enabling them to have more rights to use various works in specific circumstances than non-educators. But the reason why I don't post the comic on my website anymore, and the reason why I needed to describe it to you above with words instead of just showing you the artful visual comic, is because I don't have permission. Of course, I used the comic to underscore many important messages throughout the course on the need for schools to change, and the different roles technology might have in helping to realize positive changes.
Calvin says "Boy, am I glad to see you Hobbes!" And Hobbes replies "Another typical school day?"
The comic ends with Calvin steering his wagon down a tree-filled hill with his tiger Hobbes sitting behind him.
CALVIN AND HOBBES CONVEYANCE SERIES
The colored comic strip depicts a series of seemingly unrelated pictures of Calvin, first running down a cattle shoot with some cows, then on a conveyor belt having his head filled up with green goo, followed by a mouse wheel, wearing prison stripes and working on a chain gang, as a wind-up robot, a squawking parrot, a graveyard zombie, a square peg being hammered into a round hole, and finally as a breaching fish gasping for air. I used to display one of my favorite Calvin & Hobbes comics on the front page of this online course.