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My holiday gifts to you….
You already know what I want for Christmas. So in the spirit of the season, here are my (non-denominational holiday) gifts for …. WebCT and Blackboard – I’d say a lump of coal, except they’d probably just claim to have patented ‘mining’ and sue me. So instead, how about “Courage,” the courage to adopt a [...]
UCLA to adopt Moodle
http://www.oit.ucla.edu/ccle/ Tip of the blog-tam to Michael Penney for letting me know of the recent announcement that UCLA plans to adopt Moodle as its institution-wide learning and collaboration environment, while also pledging to “continue as a Sakai Foundation member and … to work with others in the Sakai, Moodle, and IMS communities … on data, [...]
Have yourself a genetically modified Engineered Christmas…
Overheard in the Leslie house today: Kaya (4 years old): How can Santa work with the Elves on toys if he’s at the Mall? Daddy: Well, I suppose he has a super fast sleigh or something to get him back to the North Pole every night. Calum (7 years old): That’s not it, dummy. Those [...]
Edutools ePortfolio Comparison / Changes to the Edutools Review Process
http://eportfolio.edutools.info/static.jsp?pj=16&page=HOME I wasn’t really a part of this project, but my colleagues at Edutools have put the comparison of 6 eportfolio tools into our comparative analysis tool so you can now do some easy side-by-side comparative analysis of them. Now’s probably as good a time as any to mention a change to the overall review [...]
All I want for Christmas…
My Amazon Wish List Just because I know you’re all wondering what to get this lowly edtech blogger for the holidays. Never let it be said that I didn’t ask
Study on 'What [US] College Students want from their Education'
http://www.eduventures.com/about/press_room/ 12_12_06.cfm?pubnav=about Via Jim Farmer’s eLibrary feed, an ongoing treasure trove of documents on patents and elearning (amongst other topics), comes news of this report by Eduventures, a Boston-based consulting firm. You have to pay for the full report, but even the short precis has some interesting nuggets from a student perspective. According to this [...]
Charles – Web Debugging Proxy
http://www.xk72.com/charles/ For the server geeks out there, here’s a nifty little app that my buddies at The Learning Edge turned me on to. It’s a Java-based tool that lets you watch all of your HTTP session traffic in real time. The really nice piece is how it handles XML as it enables you to see [...]
Signs that the End is Near
So first Michael Feldstein joins Oracle. Now comes news that Jon Udell is headed to Microsoft. What’s next? Jimmy Wales starts working for Encyclopedia Britannica? Stephen Downes becomes chief evangelist for Blackboard? I swear, if that happens, we’re headed to our secret bunker in the hills, and good luck to the rest of ya! – [...]
Visio version of Scott Wilson's UML Mashup Stencil
http://www.edtechpost.ca/gems/mashup.vss I liked the UML icons that Scott Wilson produced and shared for the OminGraffle tool, but couldn’t use them ‘as is’ because OminGraffle doesn’t exist for the PC. So I asked Scott if he could share the source with me so I might somehow get them into Visio, the tool I most often use [...]
StatCounter – great free web tracker (and why that's important)
http://www.statcounter.com/ As Stephen pointed out, a little while ago this blog began launching annoying pop-up windows on visitors’ browsers. Unbeknowst to me, the free stats program that I had used had a little clause in its user agreement that stated at any time it could choose to use the tracking image and code embedded in [...]
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