By sleslie on June 22, 2007
You know the kind I mean…sat down at my computer this morning and not only is the new server the IT folks are supposed to deliver still not working properly, but the SOL*R server was down, AND EdTechPost had inexplicably blown up. And my first hour of trying to fix things seemed to only make [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged BOFH, IT, self-pity
By sleslie on June 22, 2007
http://www.sitmo.com/latex/ Another sweet little hack to throw into your small pieces loosely joined toolkit – this little widget (which you can add to any webpage) allows users to create LaTeX math equations that they can either paste into any LaTeX enabled app or else use the image file that it also helpfully generates. While there [...]
Posted in Course Management Systems, The Rest | Tagged google-widgets, math
By sleslie on June 15, 2007
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/BetwixtandBetweenThe/44446 So I am still waiting to hear the results of Brian’s foray into the lion’s den at IT4BC, but that’s only one of a number of things that have had me thinking on a perennial topic of mine, how to engender innovation in higher ed, specifically with conservative IT departments, or to frame it [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged change, higher-ed, innovation, management
By sleslie on June 11, 2007
http://www.bccampus.ca/EducatorServices/CourseDevelopment/ OPDF/CallForProposals.htm So while this may be of interest mostly to local readers, I thought I’d post on it because I think there’s a few things we are doing in this round that may be of wider interest. This is the 5th round of BC’s Online Program Development Fund (OPDF), a province-wide fund that BCcampus [...]
Posted in Course Management Systems, Elearning Standards, Learning Objects | Tagged BCcampus, funding, interoperability, OPDF, reuse
By sleslie on June 4, 2007
http://www.elearningapplicationbuilder.com/blog/ So this story will be familiar to most bloggers who have been around for awhille; like a good narcissist, you check out your referrer logs and notice a new site bring people to your blog, but when you click on it you discover someone basically syndicating your feed, holus bolus, with no attribution (and [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged Creative-Commons
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