Monthly Archives: November 2004

Group Processes (Including Learning Processes) Should Be Wiki’ed

By Michael Feldstein | November 4, 2004

As many of you know, I am a fan of JotSpot. One of the interesting things that came out of my interview with JotSpot co-founders Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer is that they plan to build workflow syntax and functionality into their wiki product. Which brings me to Scott McMullan’s post….

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The NYC Budget Game

By Michael Feldstein |

I love these sorts of simulation games. It’s too bad that they’re so time-consuming to design. At their heart, they are fairly simple branching simulations, not so diffierent from the original text-based branching adventure games. (Anybody remember “xyzzy”?) Some, like this one, are a bit more sophisticated because they include numerical computations. But they are [...]

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The NOSE: Navigating OpenSource

By Michael Feldstein | November 3, 2004

Al Essa, MIT/Sloan School of Business’ CIO and the founding father of the Open Source dotLRN learning management platform, has a new (albeit goofily named) weblog about Open Source in higher ed (and related technology issues).
Check it out.

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Evaluating Students’ Weblogs

By Michael Feldstein | November 1, 2004

Here’s a great post on student blogging from Middlebury College professor Barbara Ganley’s bgblogging (which I just added to my blogroll).
Here’s an excerpt:
In the 1970s and 80s, following the lead of Peter Elbow and Donald Graves, among others, we focussed on process–how to get ideas stirring and on the paper, how to infuse the process [...]

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