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November 2005
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Biometric USBs
In some ways this seems like a bit of a kludge, but I’m interested to hear if anyone is seriously investigating using biometric USBs on their campus as a combined way of providing authentication to network resources, secure data storage for personal files, and customized ‘thicker’ clients for end users. Given how low some of [...]
ELGG vs. Moodle – defusing a false dichotomy
http://www.unisa.edu.au/odlaaconference/ PPDF2s/13%20odlaa%20-%20Anderson.pdf I’ve had a few people come up to me at conferences recently and ask me to compare ELGG and Moodle, and choose between them as if they were somehow mutually exclusive. Indeed, even within the Moodle community itself there seems to be a bit of dismissiveness about what ELGG does, and the notion [...]
The good thing about bad presentations, or how I came to love social software
So my last rant reflected my unhappiness at being inundated with crappy powerpointings, but that’s not the only dissatisfaction I’ve had with presentations I’ve sat through in conferences over the last few weeks. In addition to the dull quality of the ‘lecture’ experience, I’ve been really disappointed with the vision of learning that’s been in [...]
LORNet Conference Day 2 and a modest proposal
Today’s my last day at the LORNet conference in Vancouver, as I have to miss the Friday sessions to attend the fall session of the BC Ed Tech Users Group workshops. I’ve enjoyed meeting the people at the conference and seeing their work at the poster sessions, but I have really not been enjoying the [...]
LORNet Conference – Pre-Conference Workshops
Note to self: The start of November is a bad time to launch a new system if you also want to attend conferences So while I have no time to be away right now, I am lucky to be spending this week in downtown Vancouver with a good portion of the academic world’s best minds [...]
Connexions 'Rhaptos' Software Released
http://rhaptos.org/ The folks at Connexions have released the software that powers that site as open source code, so presumably you can now run your own instance if you wanted. Connexions is neat in that it shows a working example of learning content as XML being re-aggregated and re-skinned. For me the challenge with its particular [...]
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