Archive for May, 2006



Firefox as an e-Learning Tool

Lately I find myself experimenting with lots of different Firefox extensions and thinking about the browser itself as a learning environment. The number of interesting ways that you can extend the platform is just staggering. When you add to that the fact that Firefox is cross-platform and that you can now run it off a […]

D’Arcy Lays it Down on ePortfolios

D’Arcy has a very useful wiki page up outlining all the various dimensions of the huge, amorphous blog sometimes known as “ePortfolios.” This is why there will never be just one class of ePortfolio apps .

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Speaking at AACE Ed-Media Next Month

I’ll be participating in the Association for Advancement of Computing in Education’s Ed-Media 2006 Conference on James Dalziel’s panel as part of the Learning Management Systems Symposium. Here’s the description of the panel:

It only took a decade for the LMS to go from being a good idea to being a software system used by most […]

BRR Report Published

I am pleased to announce that our report on BRR and LMSs for the Observatory on Borderless higher education has been published. Here’s the description:
Apples to Apples: Guidelines for Comparative Evaluation of Proprietary and Open Educational Technology Systems
Ken Udas and Michael Feldstein, SUNY Learning Network at the State University of New York, USA – May […]

Wikis to Go

Speaking of Murugan, he has a great post up about making wikis work offline and points to the nice Wiki2Go tool. At SLN, we think having offline capabilities are valuable for faculty (and, personally, I think they are at least as valuable for students as well). As Murugan points out, there is some common ground […]





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