Category Archives: Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!)

The Blackboard Announcements, Part 1: What the Heck Happened?

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Michael Feldstein

For those of you who have been living under a rock, you may have missed a cluster of announcements from Blackboard this week: Blackboard Acquires Moodlerooms and Netspot Blackboard Appoints Sakai Foundation Board Member Charles Severence to Lead Company’s Sakai … Continue reading →

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Some Things You Should Do

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Michael Feldstein

If you have any spare change, give a few dollars to the DS106 Kickstarter project. They may have exceeded their initial funding goal, but Jim is going to write up some ideas of what he would do if he had more … Continue reading →

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Blackboard Acquires Moodlerooms and Netspot

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Michael Feldstein

Press release is here. This is obviously a gob smacker of a story. I’m going to take a few days, talk to a few folks, and think about the implications before I write a reaction post. You may hear from … Continue reading →

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The Ultimate Hack: Re-coding Textbooks and Other Learning Content (Introduction)

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Rob Reynolds

(This is an initial  rough draft of the Introduction to my next book, The Ultimate Hack: Re-coding Textbooks and Other Learning Content. I will be posting drafts of all the chapters on this site, and will post final versions along … Continue reading →

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Classroom Salon: Social Highlighting for Education

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Michael Feldstein

As educational content moves increasingly digital, one of the big pushes is to rethink highlighting and margin notes. On the downside, these capabilities are seen as table stakes. If students can’t do with their digital textbooks what they can already … Continue reading →

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