stephen downes is one of my heroes a pioneer in online learning.a however i think he missed the mark with his post yesterday entitled my take on the top 25. stephen took jane harts slideshow of the day list of the top 25 technologies and commented on where they fit or did not fit in his own world. a quick disclaimer i may have took notice because i was one of 192 professionals that submitted o...
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the answer to this question seems to be largely dependent on what you read and it probably also depends on what you want to use open social software for. based on some of the mailing lists and discussion forums i read and postsec sites i visit social media concepts whether built on open source or not are far from wellarticulated in most cases. content strategy and content management systems feeds...
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monday is the first day of a new semester. ill be teaching just one class this semester the rest of my time is going to iya second semester calculus based physics for scientists and engineers. this will be my first time teaching this course although ive taught the algebrabased version several times. at this stage i have my syllabus written and photocopied i have masteringphysics setup and the firs...
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...ict. mi scellaneou s tools 4te achers.org offers multiple free tools for the use of teachers and students alike such as online quiz generators grading guidelines educational video games and much more. blac kboard.com pretty much a complete educational system that allows you to stay in touch with students run tests leave voicemails for students and much much more. thec lassconnec tion.com allows high sc...
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in getting set to start the fall semester teaching an online class i have been totally revamping the previous course i taught as you know from previous posts and have been neckdeep in blackboard. this week i had a bfo navy lingo for a blinding flash of the obvious my bfo blackboard may be a learning management system but it remains teachercentered and not learningce ntered. no w i am not a black...
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for the first year i maintained opennms i worked out of my house. it took a little adjusting mainly to the lack of human contact. my wife has a career of her own and thus i was home alone for most of the day. i related to the rest of the world through irc and mailing lists. im not sure how i made it through that first year. luckily the nascent opennms community was there to help and i had my frien...
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john herman a public school teacher and the producer of web show gravityland gave a talk titled social media in the classroom at podcamp boston 3. herman said that he wanted to present what he did in his situation presenting himself as a case study for engaging young people in educational goals through social media. for me this proved to be the most interesting session at this years podcamp boston...
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if you want to understand why the wordthatmu stnotbenam ed spread like wildfire you need only read the inside higher ed article on blackboard partnering with syracuse university to develop a way to integrate blackboard with sakai. jim has a nice post on blackboards cooption of openness in their statements on this project. as for me i continue to find it amusing that quotes from blackboard leadership...
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is the true open source revolution finally coming to college campuses this fall many universities are big users of open source and internet resources. but when it comes time to deliver the goods the coursework they order textbooks and throw their students the bill. now there are vendor promises to rip up those bills. thats what i call a revolution on college campuses. moodle is trying to lead th...
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jadis lhomme interagissait intgralement avec lenvironnement. il tait libre dagir ou de ne pas agir en fonction de ce que ses sens lui rvlaient. dans les limites des contraintes sociales son individualit lui appartenait. or le monde virtuel a chang le rapport de lhomme la nature en ce quil abandonne une partie de son identit dans un cyberespace o ses donnes personnelles flottent la drive saisies...
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last week at the american library association annual conference i heard leticia camancho a business librarian from byu talk about embedding herself in blackboard as a t.a. in business courses which then connected her with the ability to use coursefeed an application in facebook which in turn allowed her to send information directly to students facebook news feeds wow i had no idea an application ...
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edupunk is do it yourself in education or instruction technology. free or at least cheap tools suitable for classroom use are so ubiquitous the faculty have plenty of alternatives to the monolithic enterprise lms. if edupunk was a boat then what would it be a bamboo raft this is not something new. my mom conned her principal into letting her have an apple iie for her classroom where she refused th...
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yaay i am also going to smash all my corporatemade computers and handbuild my own. its not about the vehicle its how you use it lee no last name provided dismissing edupunk in a comment on the chronicle article as a person who has been involved in quite a bit of social activism and done way too many interviews where i felt the resulting article was to the side of the real point i have to say the...
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yaay i am also going to smash all my corporatemade computers and handbuild my own. its not about the vehicle its how you use it lee no last name provided dismissing edupunk on the chronicle article as a person who has been involved in quite a bit of social activism and done way too many interviews where i felt the resulting article was to the side of the real point i have to say the fact the chr...
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this doesnt make me like blackboard anymore but its worth mentioning that you can now access blackboard via facebook with a new app. lets face it. you would live on facebook if you could. imagine a world where you could manage your entire life from facebook its not that far off right now though one thing missing is your academic life. you have to access a different system to get your course infor...
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probably worth reiterating that the views on this post and elsewhere on this site are entirely my own cept any unintentional plagiarism and do not reflect those of my employer. have also spent limited time putting this post together. background have been following some of the blackboard.commercial practices from the sidelines over the last year mostly via stephen downes ol daily.was asked if wa...
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evidence is mounting that the software as a service saas industry is doing well but not quite as well as financial analysts had expected. the latest anecdote comes from blackboard inc. a company that offers hosted applications to colleges and universities. ive tracked blackboard for numerous years while working at a college and also contributing to university business magazine. blackboard was amo...
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be more securea upgrade today. want better functionality upgrade today. save a developer upgrade today. the save a developer thing is the impetus for this post. the upgrade today mantra annoys me. software rarely spends enough time in alpha and beta cycles to to identify all the issues. people have been so burned by using software in alpha and beta cycles they are hesitant to try upgrades and hel...
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your kids you need help doing a weekend science project. it is last minute you need to find out how to write a good scientific method how to reference and where to find some cool new sciency pictures. here is my roundup of some great free tools articles and resources for students teachers and parents who want to have good students from across the web. add your own in the comments or submit to m...
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ive had to use the sakai course management software this term and its really the worst software ive had the misfortune of using in a long long time. if anyone out there has the choice between using it and using a commercial product like blackboard i strongly recommend the commercial product. im usually quite happy about using open source products. this post is being composed in firefox for instan...
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un peu comme dans un film oa le bon et le vilain choisissez se battent en duel pendant les 38 derniares minutes du film la bataille juridique entre desire2learn et blackboard se poursuit.........
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