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December 2005
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Happy Solstice
This is going to be my last entry for 2005 before I fly off to Wales tomorrow to join my family who have been over there for the last 10 days with our inlaws. Just wanted to send everyone sincere best wishes and hope for their joy and successes in the new year. I am [...]
OSS Watch – Documentation issues in open source
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/documentation.xml Bravo to the OSS Watch guys for tackling this hoary issue straight on – the best way to fight ‘fear uncertainty and doubt’ is by talking about the issues and showing how one can address them. Not that I know of any open source project that have this problem, ahem, but this short piece [...]
An Evaluation of Open Source CMS Stressing Adaptation Issues
http://moodle.org/other/icalt2005.pdf This paper looks at the ever expanding world of open source course management systems, but adds to the comparison the factors of “adaptability, personalization, extensibility and adaptivity” (this later meaning “automatic adaptation to the individual user�s needs”). The results; Moodle is judged to be the best in terms of its adaptation capabilities, though all [...]
Unicon provides Sakai 'Test Drive' sites
http://www.sakaitestdrive.com/ If you haven’t already had the chance, Unicon has made it even easier to have a look at Sakai 2.1 (just released on December 1, 2005) through their new “Test Drive” sites. The sites, available for free for 90 days, give you access to a demo course and worksite and allow you to change [...]
Why does 'Freesound' succeed when so many learning object repositories fail?
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ Bryan Alexander posted a link to The Freesound Project and it was interesting to me for a whole slew of reasons. It was interesting first off because I have been using the site myself for the last few months; I am getting more into making music with digital audio tools (yes, yes, I will [...]
Worthwhile Read – Scott Berkun's Project Mgmt and other wisdom
http://www.scottberkun.com/ I came across this blog via a post from Christopher Sessum (another worthwhile subscription, I’d add), who pointed to an essay titled ‘Why smart people defend bad ideas.’ It REALLY struck home (for better or worse I am more and more trying to be brutally honest in my personal assessments) and led me to [...]
Blogosphere Ghosts
http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/OE_text_chat.txt Really apropos of not very much, I stumbled across the above transcript during a google search on a pretty unrelated topic (unrelated except for the fact that it is me still thinking about it now, and I show up in this transcript almost 3 years ago when I first started thinking about it). This [...]
Paper – "Personal Publishing and Media Literacy"
http://infodesign.no/artikler/ personal_%20publishing_media_literacy.pdf Are the Norse known for being terse? The only reason I ask is that my one complaint about this paper from Jon Hoem and Ture Schwebs is that it is too short! (which to be honest, is usually not the problem with academic papers!) Even if you feel you’ve had your fill of [...]
Master's Thesis on "OS software evaluation model" focused on Course Management Systems
http://www.karinvandenberg.nl/Thesis.pdf This thesis by Karin van den Berg was part of her Master’s program at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. It does a nice job of boiling down many of the previous attempts at developing criteria for evaluating open source projects (see her references for the extensive list) and then uses as a case study [...]
Great post on "Educational Social Overlay Networks"
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2005/11/28/hello-world/ The only post so far in this new edublogs.org blog (oh the marvels of Technorati, like it or not here come your readers, Terry A. . Not so much a response to my posting on the false dichotomy that is being set up between Moodle and ELGG, instead it just takes that as its [...]
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