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Google Wave vs Twitter at conferences
An audience member would create a Google Wave and others in the audience would edit the wave during the presentation. The result would be a crowd-sourced write-up of the presentation: a transcript of key points and a record of audience comments.
Sakai 3: What It Is and When To Move To It
When will Sakai 3 be “ready”? When is a good time to migrate? If I’m under pressure to migrate in the short term, what should I do? Should I go to Sakai 2 and migrate later?
Examples of Facilitating Collaborative Work and Learning
"The design of both programs is, to an extent, a reflection of how client work is pushing our employees and work groups to collaborate with one another in new ways. At the same time, employees are giving us signals that they want to have the freedom to pursue their own professional interests. "
Why use a CMS?
"Is it possible to conduct an effective online program without a centrally administered course management system?"
Google Wave Hype or Hope?
"Reading Johanna Hanes’ paper “Google Wave: A Revolutionary CSCL-tool or Overestimated Hype” (PDF)—a nice combination of personal experience with Google Wave, light theoretical foundation, and a decent suite of links and resources—and ruminating on how I might position Google Wave for my students has reminded me yet again that I’m still not sure what to make of Wave."
Catch yourself doing something worth sharing
"Catch yourself doing something worth sharing. You don't have to tweet it or anything like that. Just start recognizing what's worth sharing."
Blackboard: the road ahead?
"The purpose of the meeting was to explore new directions - features that might be available in future versions: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 and finally 10.0."
Don’t kill off the VLE…
"Don’t kill off the VLE, for many staff it’s their only option. For some if they didn’t have the VLE they wouldn’t use anything else."
The Apple "Tablet" and Chrome OS are Meaningless - the Phone is the Future of Computing
"Your phone, my phone - any smartphone - will become our primary portable computers long before these two products catch on in the mainstream."
Google Wave & Sakai: Exchanging data
"Over the last weeks I have been able to spend some time on my Google Wave endeavor. In my last blog I wrote about embedding GW in a Sakai environment which was a simple example of how this could be done."
What Intrigues Me About Google Wave
"Wave completely demolishes the line between synchronous and asynchronous communication."
LMS or SNS?
"To survive, LMS vendors will need to transform their offerings on the social network model of Facebook. ELGG is an excellent alternative to an LMS, but most organizations are not yet willing to accept a network-centric tool as an alternative to Moodle."
UNC Sakai Pilot Evaluation: Results Summary
"When we published the Sakai Pilot Evaluation Final Report, we knew that most people would prefer a visual summary rather than reading the 74-page document or even the Executive Summary."
The Rise of the Micro-Screencast
"Meticulously orchestrated and slickly edited screencast productions will always have their place. But now it's also practical to fire off a quick, informal micro-screencast in the time it takes to jot an email or dial a phone number."
Blackboard’s Response to Open Source: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
"As I noted recently, the University of North Carolina (a Blackboard customer) reported highly favorable results of their pilot study of Sakai, with an outcome of further investigation into Sakai as a full replacement of Blackboard as their primary LMS. It turns out that this was following on the heels of a similar study done by the North Carolina Community College system favorably comparing Moodle to Blackboard."
3akai Round Two
Some of the graphics here are meant to be suggestive rather than precise (e.g. the lines of connection between types of users aren’t meant to show specific relationships), but if you don’t harp on the detail it’s a nice sweep of the ecosystem.
ProfHacker Blog Highlights Widespread Interest in Teaching With Technology
"Two tech-happy English professors have started a group blog called ProfHacker, which provides tips for making the most of Internet tools for teaching and research. With 10 regular contributors, the blog—the brainchild of Jason B. Jones, a professor at Central Connecticut State University, and George H. Williams, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina Upstate—is getting 10,000 page views a week."
Blogging Guidelines for Schools
"The purpose of this document is to assist schools in developing a policy for the safe and educationally appropriate use of web-logs or blogs. Although the document addresses blogs specifically, the concepts can be applied to the use of a variety of read/write web tools designed to facilitate communication, commonly called Web2.0"
Learning Technology @ Notre Dame
The goal of this blog is to inspire readers to explore new ways of integrating technology into teaching and learning. Complementing the more static content posted on our websites, the blog is a dynamic space where we can quickly post news, announcements, tips, and other items.
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