Tag Archives: Sakai

Sakai 3 Is Like Mac OS X

There’s an important point about the the forthcoming Sakai 3 that probably has escaped most casual observers. It is close to a ground-up rewrite. Sakai 3 is to Sakai 2 as Mac OS X was to Mac OS 9, in the following ways: The technological heart (or kernel) of the new version is completely different from [...]
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The Sakai Product Council

I am delighted to announce that I have been selected to be a part of Sakai’s new Product Council. As Michael Korcuska explains, The Product Council has two important roles: determining which components will be included as part of each product release, and informally advising projects as they progress from R&D to production-ready maturity. As a [...]
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Imagining a WeLE

A while back, I noted with some interest Michael Korcuska’s screencast showing off a prototype of some functionality planned for Sakai 3. Some recent related conversation has come up on the Sakai listservs regarding the possibility of including wiki-like capabilities as core functionality of Sakai 3 and how this might overlap with and complement the [...]
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Sakai 3 Screencast

Michael Korcuska has a new screencast up showing some of the concepts planned for Sakai 3:   I really like what he’s doing here. These multimedia narratives of concepts still in development should greatly increase the amount and quality of feedback the developer community will get—before the release gets out the door. By the way, as far as I [...]
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Permissions and Openness

I’ve been reading Opening Up Education. So far, I’m impressed. It’s hard to get all the articles in a collection like this to be consistent, coherent, and equally interesting, but the editors seem to have managed to do just that.  I want to comment today on the piece about Bodington by Stuart Lee. Long-time readers know [...]
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