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 […]
Archive for May, 2006
Firefox as an e-Learning Tool
Published by May 14th, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentD’Arcy Lays it Down on ePortfolios
Published by May 9th, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsD’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
Published by May 5th, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 2 CommentsI’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
Published by May 4th, 2006 in Higher Education and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsI 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
Published by May 2nd, 2006 in Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 3 CommentsSpeaking 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 […]
