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August 2006
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educate/innovate = use patents?
http://www.educateinnovate.com/ OK, so at least they did post something back on August 7 about the patent (a staff member posting a letter on behalf of Michael Chasen, the CEO), but otherwise, the Blackboard “blog” has been thunderously silent given the amount of hoopla in the blogosphere over the last month directly concerning them. Not really [...]
CCMixter Radio – Rockin' the airwaves with Creative Commons music, 24 hours a day!
http://ccmixter.org/media/view/media/extras Kind of a non-sequitar, but I have been working away listening to streams of fully CC-licensed remixes and tracks from the awesome CCMixter site all day, and just wanted to tell someone. What brought me there was the announcement that my old favourite, Freesound, is now integrated into ccMixter via the Sample Pool API. [...]
Short Video on Common Cartridge
http://www.sakaiproject.org/media2/2006/ altidemo06/altidemo06.htm If you’ve ever tried to export a course from an existing CMS in a ‘specifications-’compliant format you’ll know that currently the best you can likely do is get the content as IMS Content Packages and hopefully the quizzes separately in IMS QTI format. Leaving the rest of the course (discussion forums, assignments, etc) [...]
The Gong Project – Free Voice boards, voice chat and language tool
http://gong.ust.hk/index.html During my holidays I received an email from Dr David Rossiter and Gibson Lam from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology inviting me to try out some software they had developed called Gong. I am often hesitant about blogging such invitations and didn’t even manage to get around to trying it until [...]
Paper – The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=923465 This is an important new paper by William McGeveran and William Fisher from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It’s not exactly earth shattering content for people regularly working on the issue of sharing and reusing digital resources for education, but it is fairly comprehensive (from a US perspective at least) and done [...]
Blackboard's Canadian Patents
CIPO – Patent – 2535407 Thanks to Barry Dahl and his Desire2Blog for pointing out that the Canadian patent office is apparently as uninformed as the US one. – SWL
stu.dicio.us – what a student-developed, student-focused learning/study tool looks like
http://stu.dicio.us/ Thought I’ve been away I did try to catch up in Bloglines the last 2 days and I didn’t see this making the rounds so hopefully of interest – stu.dicio.us, while still in beta, is an incredibly simple student-focused tool that currently supports note taking and scheduling, with file storage and self grade-tracking coming [...]
"The Future of…" – Three Contrasting Views
http://www.kineo.co.uk/ideas/ future-of-e-learning-in-universities.html http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0648.asp At some point in the fall I have to dust off my crystal ball for a presentation on ‘the future of LMS’ (yikes!) so I’ve been keeping my eye on various ‘Future of…’ presentations of late, and recently came across these two. The first, a report by Kineo and Intel, promises to [...]
And the winner is….'Course Management Systems'?
http://www.educause.edu/2006/10958 From the “that’s not a zeitgeist, just a bump in the road” department comes this news, that the inaugural winner of the new Educause ‘Catalyst’ award is “Course Management Systems” (yes, the entire field of them, not just a signle one, competing claims to the contrary notwithstanding). What’s so interesting, though, in light of [...]
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