Four individuals - Amanda Ash, Emma Leering, Abi Wicks, and Sophie Turner - signed personal release forms granting permission to Rosie Allen and her production company Change Productions to photograph and record their voices, appearances, and likenesses for use in a promotional video called "Change maker promo video". The releases authorize unlimited distribution and exploitation of the video and protect the production company from any legal claims regarding the use of the individuals' likenesses.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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1. Release #1
PERSONAL RELEASE
Film Changemaker Promotional Video
Production Company Change Productions
Address 27 Agnes Road, Northampton, NN2 6EU
Date 20/3/18
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I, the undersigned, hereby grant permission to ROSIE ALLEN
(“Producer”) to photograph me and to record my voice, performances, poses, acts, plays and appearances, and use
my picture, photograph, silhouette and other reproductions of my physical likeness and sound as part of the
production tentatively entitled Change maker promo video
(the “Picture”) and the unlimited distribution, advertising,
promotion, exhibition and exploitation of the Picture by any method or device now known or hereafter devised in which
the same may be used, and/or incorporated and/or exhibited and/or exploited.
I agree that I will not assert or maintain against you, your successors, assigns and licensees, any claim, action, suit or
demand of any kind or nature whatsoever, including but not limited to, those grounded upon invasion of privacy, rights
of publicity or other civil rights, or for any other reason in connection with your authorized use of my physical likeness
and sound in the Picture as herein provided. I hereby release you, your successors, assigns and licensees, and each
of them, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, demands, actions, causes of action(s), costs and expenses
whatsoever, at law or in equity, known or unknown, anticipated or unanticipated, which I ever had, now have, or may,
or shall hereafter have by reason, matter, cause or thing arising out of your use as herein provided.
I affirm that neither I, nor anyone acting for me, gave or agreed to give anything of value to any of your employees or
any representative of any television network, motion picture studio or production entity for arranging my appearance
on the Picture.
I have read the foregoing and fully understand the meaning and effect thereof and, intending to be legally bound, I
have signed this release.
Dated 18/03/2018 AMANDA L ASH
Signature
If a minor, Guardian’s Signature
AMANDA ASH
Please Print Name
AGREED AND ACCEPTED TO
By Rosie Allen 07850895700
Phone Number
2. Release #1
PERSONAL RELEASE
Film Changemaker Promotional Video
Production Company Change Productions
Address 27 Agnes Road, Northampton, NN2 6EU
Date 28/3/18
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I, the undersigned, hereby grant permission to ROSIE ALLEN
(“Producer”) to photograph me and to record my voice, performances, poses, acts, plays and appearances, and use
my picture, photograph, silhouette and other reproductions of my physical likeness and sound as part of the
production tentatively entitled Change maker promo video
(the “Picture”) and the unlimited distribution, advertising,
promotion, exhibition and exploitation of the Picture by any method or device now known or hereafter devised in which
the same may be used, and/or incorporated and/or exhibited and/or exploited.
I agree that I will not assert or maintain against you, your successors, assigns and licensees, any claim, action, suit or
demand of any kind or nature whatsoever, including but not limited to, those grounded upon invasion of privacy, rights
of publicity or other civil rights, or for any other reason in connection with your authorized use of my physical likeness
and sound in the Picture as herein provided. I hereby release you, your successors, assigns and licensees, and each
of them, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, demands, actions, causes of action(s), costs and expenses
whatsoever, at law or in equity, known or unknown, anticipated or unanticipated, which I ever had, now have, or may,
or shall hereafter have by reason, matter, cause or thing arising out of your use as herein provided.
I affirm that neither I, nor anyone acting for me, gave or agreed to give anything of value to any of your employees or
any representative of any television network, motion picture studio or production entity for arranging my appearance
on the Picture.
I have read the foregoing and fully understand the meaning and effect thereof and, intending to be legally bound, I
have signed this release.
Dated 18/03/2018 EMMA LEERING
Signature
If a minor, Guardian’s Signature
EMMA LEERING
Please Print Name
AGREED AND ACCEPTED TO
By Rosie Allen 07850895700
Phone Number
3. Release #1
PERSONAL RELEASE
Film Changemaker Promotional Video
Production Company Change Productions
Address 27 Agnes Road, Northampton, NN2 6EU
Date 20/3/18
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I, the undersigned, hereby grant permission to ROSIE ALLEN
(“Producer”) to photograph me and to record my voice, performances, poses, acts, plays and appearances, and use
my picture, photograph, silhouette and other reproductions of my physical likeness and sound as part of the
production tentatively entitled Change maker promo video
(the “Picture”) and the unlimited distribution, advertising,
promotion, exhibition and exploitation of the Picture by any method or device now known or hereafter devised in which
the same may be used, and/or incorporated and/or exhibited and/or exploited.
I agree that I will not assert or maintain against you, your successors, assigns and licensees, any claim, action, suit or
demand of any kind or nature whatsoever, including but not limited to, those grounded upon invasion of privacy, rights
of publicity or other civil rights, or for any other reason in connection with your authorized use of my physical likeness
and sound in the Picture as herein provided. I hereby release you, your successors, assigns and licensees, and each
of them, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, demands, actions, causes of action(s), costs and expenses
whatsoever, at law or in equity, known or unknown, anticipated or unanticipated, which I ever had, now have, or may,
or shall hereafter have by reason, matter, cause or thing arising out of your use as herein provided.
I affirm that neither I, nor anyone acting for me, gave or agreed to give anything of value to any of your employees or
any representative of any television network, motion picture studio or production entity for arranging my appearance
on the Picture.
I have read the foregoing and fully understand the meaning and effect thereof and, intending to be legally bound, I
have signed this release.
Dated 18/03/2018 ABI WICKS
Signature
If a minor, Guardian’s Signature
ABI WICKS
Please Print Name
AGREED AND ACCEPTED TO
By Rosie Allen 07850895700
Phone Number
4. Release #1
PERSONAL RELEASE
Film Changemaker Promotional Video
Production Company Change Productions
Address 27 Agnes Road, Northampton, NN2 6EU
Date 20/3/18
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I, the undersigned, hereby grant permission to ROSIE ALLEN
(“Producer”) to photograph me and to record my voice, performances, poses, acts, plays and appearances, and use
my picture, photograph, silhouette and other reproductions of my physical likeness and sound as part of the
production tentatively entitled Change maker promo video
(the “Picture”) and the unlimited distribution, advertising,
promotion, exhibition and exploitation of the Picture by any method or device now known or hereafter devised in which
the same may be used, and/or incorporated and/or exhibited and/or exploited.
I agree that I will not assert or maintain against you, your successors, assigns and licensees, any claim, action, suit or
demand of any kind or nature whatsoever, including but not limited to, those grounded upon invasion of privacy, rights
of publicity or other civil rights, or for any other reason in connection with your authorized use of my physical likeness
and sound in the Picture as herein provided. I hereby release you, your successors, assigns and licensees, and each
of them, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, demands, actions, causes of action(s), costs and expenses
whatsoever, at law or in equity, known or unknown, anticipated or unanticipated, which I ever had, now have, or may,
or shall hereafter have by reason, matter, cause or thing arising out of your use as herein provided.
I affirm that neither I, nor anyone acting for me, gave or agreed to give anything of value to any of your employees or
any representative of any television network, motion picture studio or production entity for arranging my appearance
on the Picture.
I have read the foregoing and fully understand the meaning and effect thereof and, intending to be legally bound, I
have signed this release.
Dated 18/03/2018 SOPHIE H TURNER
Signature
If a minor, Guardian’s Signature
SOPHIE TURNER
Please Print Name
AGREED AND ACCEPTED TO
By Rosie Allen 07850895700
Phone Number
5. Release #1
PERSONAL RELEASE
Film Changemaker Promotional Video
Production Company Change Productions
Address 27 Agnes Road, Northampton, NN2 6EU
Date 20/3/18
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I, the undersigned, hereby grant permission to ROSIE ALLEN
(“Producer”) to photograph me and to record my voice, performances, poses, acts, plays and appearances, and use
my picture, photograph, silhouette and other reproductions of my physical likeness and sound as part of the
production tentatively entitled Change maker promo video
(the “Picture”) and the unlimited distribution, advertising,
promotion, exhibition and exploitation of the Picture by any method or device now known or hereafter devised in which
the same may be used, and/or incorporated and/or exhibited and/or exploited.
I agree that I will not assert or maintain against you, your successors, assigns and licensees, any claim, action, suit or
demand of any kind or nature whatsoever, including but not limited to, those grounded upon invasion of privacy, rights
of publicity or other civil rights, or for any other reason in connection with your authorized use of my physical likeness
and sound in the Picture as herein provided. I hereby release you, your successors, assigns and licensees, and each
of them, from and against any and all claims, liabilities, demands, actions, causes of action(s), costs and expenses
whatsoever, at law or in equity, known or unknown, anticipated or unanticipated, which I ever had, now have, or may,
or shall hereafter have by reason, matter, cause or thing arising out of your use as herein provided.
I affirm that neither I, nor anyone acting for me, gave or agreed to give anything of value to any of your employees or
any representative of any television network, motion picture studio or production entity for arranging my appearance
on the Picture.
I have read the foregoing and fully understand the meaning and effect thereof and, intending to be legally bound, I
have signed this release.
Dated 18/03/2018 LUCY ELIZA ROSE BLINCO
Signature
If a minor, Guardian’s Signature
LUCY BLINCO
Please Print Name
AGREED AND ACCEPTED TO
By Rosie Allen 07850895700
Phone Number