We will be taking e-Literate offline while we switch over to a new web host. Back soon!
More on the Sakai/Jasig Merger
As I have mentioned here before, the Sakai and Jasig foundations are in the process of evaluating a merger to create a kind of Apache Foundation for higher education. The new organization would be called the Apereo Foundation. The two communities will be voting on the merger some time in the next month or so. […]
Construction Delays
Looks like it’s going to be a few more days before we move to our new host, so I’m re-opening comments and will try to squeeze in a blog post or two over the weekend.
Please Be Patient While We Remodel…
Due to ongoing consequences of getting hacked by a spammer, I have not had administrative access to WordPress for over a week. Despite the good faith efforts of the kind people at Fused, I have come to the conclusion that, given both the nature of my site as a target for attacks and my lack […]
We Interrupt This Program…
e-Literate went down for few hours this afternoon due to somebody apparently hacking my account and using it for spam. It’s fixed now. Sorry.
The Blackboard Announcements, Part 2: Can Open Source Be Bought?
I have gotten a lot of email from folks who moved to Moodle (often from Blackboard CE) because they wanted to get away from Blackboard and they thought that open source was “safe.” In my first post on the announcements, I noted there are reasons to believe that Moodlerooms customers may do just fine under […]
Khan Academy Contributes to the Google Art Project
My friends Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, formerly of smARThistory, now of smARThistory at Khan Academy, have announced that they contributed 90 art history videos for the newly launched version 2 of the Google Art Project. This idea, of creating virtual versions of important museums around the globe, complete with high-resolution images of the art, […]