By sleslie on January 10, 2007
http://www.hamachi.cc/ and http://www.unyte.net/ I work at home. I almost never get to see my colleagues face to face. And when I do, I have my laptop with me, a different computer than the one I use at home. These two FREE technologies have become indispensible in helping me work with others at a distance as [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged synchronous, Web2.0
By sleslie on January 10, 2007
http://www.immagic.com/eLibrary/ARCHIVES/ GENERAL/SAKAI_US/S070109F.pdf Jim Farmer points to a comparison of the Sakai and Moodle projects done by Ohloh, a very cool site that provides objective information about open source projects. Instead of looking at Jim’s PDF file, you can check out the Sakai and Moodle reports directly on the Ohloh site. Ohloh’s reports are produced by [...]
Posted in Course Management Systems | Tagged CMS, Moodle, Sakai
By sleslie on January 8, 2007
http://www.scholar.com/ This looks to be a new social bookmarking service launched by Blackboard. The difference from existing services like del.icio.us? Well, not much, as far as I can tell, except that it is aimed solely at Blackboard and WebCT customers (non-customers can search the site and find links, but not contribute). So why would you [...]
Posted in Course Management Systems | Tagged blackboard, bookmarking, CMS, folksonomy
By sleslie on January 2, 2007
http://web.mit.edu/emcc/www/ MIT-WCET-C-LMS-Final-Report-07-19-06.pdf My colleagues Bruce Landon and Russ Poulin were commissioned last year by MIT to produce a report which compared the CMS practices and costs, as well as the life cycle of course materials, at ‘peer’ institutions in an effort to provide a benchmark for future decision making. I was just informed that MIT [...]
Posted in Course Management Systems | Tagged CMS, Edutools, Sakai
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