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July 2006
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Gone to the Beach
Off to the beach until August 8 for 3 weeks holidays (hooray!) See y’all soon, Scott
Article – "A Graduate's View of the Course Management System"
http://www.campus-technology.com/ news_article.asp?id=18864&typeid=155 This article is a follow up to one written 2 years ago by Frank Tansey’s son, now a recent graduate of the University of Puget Sound. It is of course purely anecdotal so its unfair to draw broad conclusions from it, but for me it provides a refreshing perspective on the issue. The [...]
"Map" of Moodle Deployments
http://moodle.org/sites/index.php?country=all Michael Penney wrote in to let me know that the map of Moodle deployments world-wide that I pined for earlier already exists. While I’m pretty sure this map is not an exact representation of the state of affairs (otherwise Alice Springs is surely the hotbed of all Moodle deployments, with New Orleans a close [...]
Google TechTalk Videos
http://video.google.com/ videosearch?q=type%3Agoogle%20engEDU &page=1&lv=0&so=1 Bruce pointed me to a video of a talk by Barry Schwartz to staff at Google on “The Paradox of Choice – Why More is Less.” (Worth a view – examines the idea that facing a plethora of choices, people act less, not more, that more choices has the paradoxical effect of [...]
YourSpins.Com – Online Music Remixxing Tool
http://www.yourspins.com/ So this is pretty nifty, both because of the tool and because of the apparent business model. YouSpins.com allows you to remix tracks from 40 or so artists with a simple to use Flash-based interface. Once remixed, the new track can be saved back into the community space (which is very much ‘social software’) [...]
Must Read – LMS Governance Project Report
http://www.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/ telars/talmet/melbmonash/ media/LMSGovernanceFinalReport.pdf Stephen’s already recommended it, but I’ll second that recommendation – this is an “interesting and well-informed” report and another one you should try to get in front of as many decision makers’ faces as possible. I’m really grateful to have read it, if only for the references to Paul Pangaro and M.C. [...]
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