I’m enjoying browsing around YouTube’s EDU pages. Lots of good stuff, from the profound to the practical. At the latter end of the spectrum, here’s a good primer for teachers who are curious about using a wiki in their classes but don’t know where to start:
Vote for the D2L Million$Mission on Facebook
Apparently, somebody started a Facebook group supporting D2L’s offer to Blackboard to donate a million dollars to schools in return for Blackboard dropping the patent suit. Facebook groups have become a way for people to express their support for an idea or an initiative. This is something that wasn’t in fashion yet when the original […]
Desire2Learn Challenges Blackboard With $1 Million Charity Pledge
There are two pieces of news here. First, Blackboard has apparently been granted a new patent and has filed suit for infringement against Desire2Learn in the East District of Texas—again. I have not read and will not read the new patent filing because to do so would put my employer in legal jeopardy, thanks to […]
At the Higher Education Users Group Conference Next Week
I’ll be going to the Alliance conference, which is run by Oracle’s higher education users group, next week. I’m co-presenting a half-day workshop on SAIP with my colleague Linda Feng on Sunday. After that, I’ll be around until Wednesday morning. If you’re at the conference and want to talk, ping me or track me down. […]
Review of Oracle AES White Paper
Ian Dolphin, the International Director of the e-Framework program, has posted a review [PDF] of the white paper that my colleagues and I recently wrote for Oracle. As usual, Ian brings fresh perspective and insight to the topic from his perch in an international organization promoting standards for education, where he gets views into multiple projects […]
Looking for Advice On Creating a Second Life Simulation
I received an email from a reader who is working on a worthy project and is looking for advice on Second Life. Since I generally avoid SL myself, I was hoping some of you might have some tips for her. She writes: My goal is to create a simulation that can be used by a […]
Why All LMS’s Are ‘Pretty Good/Bad’
I got a lot of positive feedback on my “Advice for Small Schools on the LMS Selection Process” post, so I’m going to continue the occasional series. You can find all the posts in the series at any time by going to the “small school LMS selection” tag on my site. To recap, these posts […]