Archive for December, 2005

Site Upgrade

I have upgraded the plumbing to Expression Engine 1.4. You shouldn’t notice any obvious differences. If something has inadvertently broken, please let me know.

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For the Sakai curious, sakaitestdrive.com

Unicon and Optimized Learning just announced Sakai Test Drive:
An original Sakai Commercial Affiliate, Unicon is committed to promoting and facilitating the use of this cost-effective alternative to proprietary or homegrown course management solutions. That’s why we’ve created a Sakai Test Drive site that enables you to:

View basic Sakai tutorials
Use Sakai tools within your own instructor […]

Instructables: step-by-step collaboration

Here’s a nice little tool, community, and design pattern for creating and sharing how-to learning objects. Basically, it provides a wizard for inputting text step descriptions and illustrative images. Mix in some Flickr-style usability principles and some folksonomic tagging goodness, and you have a nice little instructional confection.
Here’s their description of their approach:
A key […]

smARTHistory Vodcast Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

My good friends at FIT have done it again. As a companion to their smARThistory multimedia blog, they have published a companion web site that maps their vodcasts to the exhibits at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Way cool.
By the way, their blog is up for an Edublog award this year. Am I plugging for them? […]

LMOS Architecture Available on Wiki

Bernie Durfee has been doing some great architectural design work on the LMOS concept, which is now open to the public. It’s mostly technical and aimed at a developer audience; however, Bernie is a very good writer and has done a great job of making the technical issues fairly decipherable even to non-technologists.
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