{"id":1734,"date":"2009-10-09T09:38:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T13:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2009-10-09T09:38:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T13:38:26","slug":"outside-cultural-studies-classes-love-boat-instructional-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Outside cultural studies classes, &#8220;Love Boat&#8221; != instructional material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wqow.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=11256759\">a University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor used state funds<\/a> to purchase DVDs of various television series, including <em>Love Boat<\/em>, <em>Family Ties<\/em>, and <em>Get Smart<\/em>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.margaretsoltan.com\/?p=18062\">Hat tip<\/a>.) The explanation was that he would use clips &#8220;to illustrate aspects of business and management.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Reality check: I use cartoons in lectures. I also buy the materials I use, whether it&#8217;s the complete <i>Far Side<\/i> collection, the huge book of <i>New Yorker<\/i> cartoons, or <i>Calvin and Hobbes<\/i> books. And then I rely on my judgment and educational fair use. But it&#8217;s my money that bought the materials, not the state of Florida. If my university buys instructional materials, it should be in the library or another collection for general use. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently a University of Wisconsin-Madison business professor used state funds to purchase DVDs of various television series, including Love Boat, Family Ties, and Get Smart. (Hat tip.) The explanation was that he would use clips &#8220;to illustrate aspects of business and management.&#8221; Reality check: I use cartoons in lectures. I also buy the materials I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","category-out-of-left-field-friday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-rY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}