e-Literate

Present is Prologue

Category: From the Editors

These posts provide updates about our editorial policies as well as changes to the site itself.

  • Welcome to e-Literate 2.0

    At long last, I have managed to move my blog over to WordPress. Many thanks to Sarah Lewis at Blogging Expertise for helping me get my content out of ExpressionEngine, style the site the way I wanted, and make sure that old URLs didn’t break. She was able to head some problems off at the pass that probably would have taken somebody with less WordPress-specific experience days to figure out.

    There are a number of little issues I’m still working out (mostly small post formatting problems that I’m correcting by hand), but everything should work here. Please let me know if you spot any problems. All major URLs, including the RSS feed, should auto-forward, but just in case, you might want to update your RSS reader to the new feed URL, which is http://feeds.feedburner.com/mfeldstein/yyMY.

    In the meantime, I thought I would take the opportunity to point out a few features of the new blog that you might find useful:

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  • Thanks to Guest Blogger Stephen Marshall

    In all my comings and goings, I failed to notice that Stephen has finished his run as a guest blogger here at e-Literate. If you missed his posts, I highly recommend checking them out:

    Also, be sure to check out (and subscribe to) Stephen’s blog.

    Thanks for visiting us here at e-Literate, Steve.

  • A New Job, Part II

    In my last post, I announced that I will be taking a new job at Oracle and explained that the move will not affect my blogging. Now I’d like to take a moment to talk about why I’m so excited about this new opportunity to make a difference in the world of online learning.

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  • A New Job, Part I

    And now for some Big News.

    I am delighted to announce that, effective December 1st, I will begin my new job at Oracle as a Product Manager for their Academic Enterprise Initiative (AEI). (I have previously blogged about AEI in a two–part series.) I want to tell you why I am so excited about this new adventure. But before I do, I first want to tell you how this is going to affect my blogging at e-Literate.

    Short answer: It won’t. (more…)

  • Guest Blogger: Stephen Marshall

    I am pleased to announce a new experiment at e-Literate. Since I am falling ever further behind in blogging about the all the interesting stuff I come across, I have decided to invite other people who are smarter and more interesting than me to guest blog here periodically.

    My first guest blogger will be Stephen J. Marshall, the Acting Director of the University Teaching Development Centre at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Ken Udas has been singing Stephen’s praises for quite some time now, and I finally got to meet him and hear him talk about his e-Learning Maturity Model at FIT not too long ago. It’s fascinating stuff; one of the most robust organizational capability assessments for e-Learning that I’ve seen while still managing to remain lightweight enough to be practical. I have invited Stephen to blog about eMM here, along with anything else that strikes his fancy. (If we’re lucky, maybe he’ll share some of his interesting perspective on e-Learning standards, for example.)

    Stephen will be blogging here over the next three weeks. Since I will also continue blogging during that time period, I have asked Stephen to make obvious which posts are his. Keep an eye out for them; I’m sure they’ll be good stuff.

  • Doing Another EdTechTalk on EduPatents

    I’ll be on along with Al Essa tomorrow night (Sunday, 9/17) at 8 PM EDT to discuss where we are with the EduPatent problem and what we can do about it.

  • Appearing in an e-Learning Usability Webcast

    I’ll be interviewed next week on the subject of e-Learning usability for a Truth in e-Learning webcast hosted by a company called Scribe Studio. Unfortunately, the event is non-free; $145 (including the $50 discount) for access to 12 episodes. I think the conversation will be fun, though, and I’ll be interested to see how they manage to produce online videos with pretty high production values.