I have mentioned before Cambridge’s My Sakai project which, writ large, can be seen as an attempt to make Sakai more compatible with Web 2.0 by supporting development of widgets, gadgets, Facebook applications, and so on. Well, they’ve made some substantial progress of late, inspired in part by the Apache Shindig implementation of Google’s OpenSocial […]
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Mashing Up the LMS the Google Way
Published by March 24th, 2008 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access, Notable Posts and LMOS. 0 CommentsBad News for Blackboard, Good News for Moodle
Published by March 23rd, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access and Notable Posts. 7 CommentsThe American Association of Community College’s Instructional Technology Council (ITC) has just published its 2007 Distance Education Survey Results, covering data from 154 U.S. community colleges. And there’s a lot of interesting stuff in it. Here are the headlines that I drew from it:
Distance education continues to grow at a very healthy clip, particularly in […]
The Other Shoe Drops
Published by March 8th, 2008 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Notable Posts. 0 CommentsAl Essa informs us that there is a new edupatent suit by a new player. The critical difference here is that this time universities are being sued. At the moment, the company asserting the patent has confined itself to suing for-profit universities (University of Phoenix, Inc, The Apollo Group, Inc., Capella Education Company, Laureate Education, […]
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 […]
Gadgets Instead of Portlets?
Published by January 8th, 2008 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Notable Posts and LMOS. 3 CommentsVia CMSWatch, an interesting facet of the Apache Shindig proposal has surfaced. Shindig is Apache’s server-side container for OpenSocial and OpenSocial, in turn, is (among other things) based on Google Gadgets.
Here’s the interesting bit:
A social application, in this context, is an application run by a third party provider and embedded in a web page, or […]
