By sleslie on April 14, 2008
http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/CMS+Conversion+Tools One of my main gigs is running a repository service to help faculty here in BC share online course content. As I have likely lamented far too many times, the bane of my existence is the uneven support for content interoperability across the various course management systems. At last count we had at least [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged blackboard, CMS, content-packages, D2L, IMS, interoperability, Moodle, WebCT
By sleslie on April 11, 2008
http://blip.tv/file/796357 This post has been a while in the making (recent outtages notwithstanding) so you may already have followed Brian’s exhortations and viewed the video of this talk. But if not, do so. I promise you, it is worth it. I “met” Gardner online through Brian and for a few years followed his writings and [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged computing, Gardner-Campbell, metacognition, metaphor, poetry
By sleslie on April 10, 2008
http://www.webducate.net/dragster.php The most successful thing I think I’ve ever published on this blog was the simple “matrix of blog uses in education” that I posted in 2003. It has been translated numerous times and I see it referred to lots of place on the web. It’s always been really gratifying to see the novel ways [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged authoring, blog-use, drag-and-drop, flash, matrix
By sleslie on April 10, 2008
For those of you who have tried to access something on edtechpost over the last few days but have got error messages, my sincere apologies, but oh what a week I’ve had. All the more frustrating because of the number of posts I’ve wanted to write, which I will return to shortly, but before that, [...]
Posted in The Rest | Tagged bad-service, Canada-Web-Hosting, horrible, ISP, shitty-support, Synergy-Web-Services
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