Thanks to fellow Oracle blogger Jake Kuramoto for pointing to this ZDNet piece revealing (among other things) that JotSpot is about to become part of the Google Apps package. Long-time e-Literate readers know that I was lucky enough to be able to interview JotSpot’s co-founders in the early history of this blog, and that they […]
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Google Soon Adding JotSpot to Google Apps
Published by July 7th, 2007 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 4 CommentsFour Ideas for the Future of Sakai
Published by June 23rd, 2007 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Notable Posts and LMOS. 0 CommentsOne of the emerging themes from the Sakai Amsterdam conference was a strong desire in the community to develop a coherent vision for Sakai’s developing educational value proposition. Now, because of Sakai’s heritage as a project grown out of an alliance of strong, independent institutions rather than led by a single, charismatic leader (like a […]
Two New Articles in e-Learn
Published by January 27th, 2006 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 0 CommentsI just had two new articles published in e-Learn Magazine. The first one, A Call to Arms, is an opinion piece arguing that we urgently need more direct faculty-technologist collaboration in LMS design if we are to make any kind of reasonable progress. The second one, which I co-authored with my colleague Patrick Masson, is […]
Instructables: step-by-step collaboration
Published by December 11th, 2005 in Instructional Design and Educational Pattern Languages. 0 CommentsHere’s a nice little tool, community, and design pattern for creating and sharing how-to learning objects. Basically, it provides a wizard for inputting text step descriptions and illustrative images. Mix in some Flickr-style usability principles and some folksonomic tagging goodness, and you have a nice little instructional confection.
Here’s their description of their approach:
A key […]
Second Life: A Simulation Wiki?
Published by December 4th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 2 CommentsAs usual, Jon Udell is onto something interesting. A company called Linden Labs has produced a MMORG called
