As I mentioned in a previous post the SUNY Learning Network currently uses a home-grown learning management system built on top of Lotus Notes. And while there is a web interface to the system, many of the current users are quite attached to their fat client. This may sound quaintly outdated at the moment. However, […]
Some SUNY Trivia
Here are some interesting facts about my new employer: The total number of students, 413,000, is pretty close to the total poplulation of the European country Luxembourg, making SUNY the largest state university system in the country. That 413,000-person student body includes 40 percent of all New York State high school graduates and roughly 37 […]
Don't Use Bloglines
I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to post this, but it seems to be my only recourse at this point. Apparently, the Bloglines aggregator stopped updating my feed several months ago. I had no idea that this was happening; nor did my readers who subscribe through Bloglines. As far as they knew, I just […]
And the winner is…
…pretty much everyone. No, e-Literate did not win in either of the categories for which it was nominated in the 2004 Edublogger Awards. But it’s hard to feel bad about it, given the quality of the contestants and the number of great new blogs I discovered through this contest. Take, for example, the blog that […]
Sakai Updates
Mike Kruckenberg has posted several updates from the Sakai Winter 2004 Conference: What’s New in Sakai 1.5? If you want to develop Sakai Tools Sakai Tools Team Update: Style Guide Overview Implementing Sakai in a Community College Consortium
The Intractable Problem of Informational Cascades
Stephen Downes’ new column on e-Learn does a great job of showing that solving the informational cascade problem is more challenging than I had presented it to be in my own article on the topic. In fact, his own analysis reveals that the problem may be harder to solve than even he himself suggests. The […]
Welcome Back, Bloglines Subscribers
Apparently, Bloglines hasn’t been updating my feeds for the last two months. Thanks to Amy Gahran, I found out yesterday that this was(n’t) happening. I submitted a bug report to the Bloglines team and I’m happy to report that I had a “we’re working on it” non-automated response within a half hour or so. It […]