Michael Staton, one of the principals behind the Facebook Courses app, has a couple of blogs that are worth reading. The first, Edumorphology, is probably the most immediately relevant for e-Literate readers. But the second one, College Readiness for the 21st Century, is also worth reading. (Among other things, Michael has been a high school […]
Archive for January, 2008
Two More Blogs to Read
Published by January 31st, 2008 in Blogging, Higher Education and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 1 CommentBlackboard Bought Xythos
Published by January 25th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Content Management & Taxonomy as Knowledge Management. 2 CommentsThe Chronicle just confirmed it. For those who don’t know, Blackboard Content System is based on the Xythos Content Server product. So now Bb owns a content management engine and can integrate it pervasively with the rest of its product line. (To date, the integration between Bb Content System and their LMS is relatively weak.) […]
Jing Rocks!
Published by January 21st, 2008 in Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Notable Posts. 4 CommentsThanks to my wonderful readers, I have solved my screencasting dilemma. To begin with, I am thoroughly impressed with TechSmith’s Jing. It is extremely simple to use and produces very high-quality videos with very small file sizes. And it’s free. It’s not what you need if you’re going to want to edit the files, create […]
More On the Widgets vs. Portlets Thing
Published by January 21st, 2008 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsThanks to Oracle colleague Jake Kuramoto, I just learned about a product Oracle is in the process of acquiring that has some connection to the whole portlets/widgets discussion. Apparently, BEA has this product called Ensemble that can (among other things) take any web page and turn it into a “pagelet” (which is kinda like a […]
Screencasting Frustrations
Published by January 20th, 2008 in Instructional Design and Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 10 CommentsI’m trying to help my wife with what should be an easy-to-meet technology challenge, but so far I’ve run into a lot of unforeseen problems. Basically, she wants to do screencasts of her reviews of essays for her composition students in an online class. In other words, she talks while looking at (and pointing to, […]
