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 CommentsReminder: Abstracts Are Due Soon
Published by March 16th, 2008 in Higher Education, Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science and LMOS. 0 CommentsFor any of you who were thinking about submitting an article for the On the Horizon issue I’m editing on breaking up the monolithic LMS, please remember that abstracts are due by April 1st. (Details are in the original post linked to above.) Articles need not be heavily researched with tons of footnotes (although those […]
I’m honored to announce that I’ve been asked by Tom Abeles to guest edit a special issue of On the Horizon on the topic of distributed learning environments. The goal of the issue is to create a conversation representing a full spectrum of perspectives on the growing trend toward incorporating disparate tools and environments to […]
My Sakai Widget
Published by January 17th, 2008 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 2 CommentsCambridge now has made
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 […]
