This is the first of several posts I’ll be making about stuff I learned at yesterday’s conference at FIT–which was excellent. It’s not often that I go to a conference where I find every single speaker to be interesting, but this was certainly the case here. (Raymond Yee apparently live-blogged…er…live-wiki’ed the first part of the […]
Archives for 2005
Hurricane Katrina Strands Thousands of Avatars; FEMA Still Clueless
Check this out: After Hurricane Katrina, the operators of EverQuest II assured more than 13,000 members in the Gulf Coast region that their virtual property would be protected and preserved until they could resume playing. So all this time, over ten thousand avatars have been literally…er…virtually…er…literally virtually stranded. Apparently, former FEMA Director Michael Brown admitted […]
A Couple of More Speaking Gigs
I’ll be presenting at a couple of SUNY conferences during the first week of October. Both of them are Conferences on Computing in the Disciplines (COCIDs) sponsored by the SUNY Faculty Access to Computing Technology (FACT) Council. The first one, on Monday, October 3rd, is called Application of Mobile Technology Tools in the Online Learning […]
I'm Giving a Webinar on e-Learning Usability
Just to let you know, I’ll be presenting in a webinar this Thursday on e-Learning usability.
LMOS Integration and Specialization
This post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System. In my last few posts, I argued that a next-generation learning management platform should have the following characteristics: It should provide a framework that makes it as easy as possible for programmers with different skill levels in different programming […]
Rockin' Content Management
So, I’ve been keeping an eye lately on Alfresco, a cool FOSS JSR-168-compliant content management system being developed by one of the co-founders of Documentum. There’s a lot to like here–good handling of both documents and web content, flexible application of workflows and other aspects, drag-and-drop file management, including filtering/converting of documents–and all under an […]
The Portal is the Platform, Part III
This post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System. I have argued in this series that the heart of an LMOS should be a portal. The main reason I have given so far is that a modern portal is well suited to handle the long tail of specialized […]