I’ve just started setting up a Moodle site for my Computer Networking and Computer Science courses for the upcoming semester (starting on Monday). So far I am impressed! I have worked with WebCT – well, maybe struggled against WebCT is a better description. I have heard WebCT described as a programmers idea about what an [...]
Archive for January, 2005
Noodling with Moodle
2005/01/26Viktor Yuschenko has a blog
2005/01/25I just read on scripting news that Viktor Yuschenko, prime minister of the Ukraine, has a blog. Not being able to read Ukrainian, I can’t tell if this is real blogging or something that someone in his office is writing. I think that the most successful politicians of the 21st century will be the ones [...]
In Defense of Management
2005/01/23I mentioned a couple of days ago about James Farmer’s analysis of current learning management systems versus learning communities that may be more driven by the learners and emerge out of the interaction of the learners. I still think that this is a needed conversation; more precisely, I think that this is an inevitable conversation [...]
BBC News::Academics give lessons on blogs
2005/01/23Thanks to Dave Winer for passing along a link to an article from BBC news about blogging in academic settings in England. It sounds like a number of universities in England are embracing blogging as an academic practice for faculty and students. Warwick University has even gone so far as to provide blog hosting for [...]
Data lost and lesson learned
2005/01/22Thanks to my ungracious ex-webhosting company, Rick Schwier’s blog, Rick’s Cafe Canadien has been down for about a week, and all the data on the site was lost! I am grateful that an earlier backup from a couple of month’s ago was available, so the loss was not complete. The Google cache was also a [...]
Smallness – the next big thing!
2005/01/21Oh there is a buzz in the educational technology blogosphere that is music to my ears. D’Arcy is talking about it and so is James. The topic of discussion is smallness. Like D’Arcy, James and many others, I think small may be the next big thing in learning (at least in online learning). D’Arcy raises [...]
Podcast #4 – What's the educational model for podcasting?
2005/01/16Despite technical difficulties, here is a conversation with Rick Schwier about podcasting and education. This was recorded in Rick’s office on his Olympus voice recorder. During the course of the conversation, I somehow manage to work WKRP in Cincinatti as well as a rant about the utility (or lack thereof) of teaching cursive writing in [...]
The podcast that never was
2005/01/12I just finished an abortive attempt at recording a conversation with Rick Schwier for the next podcast. After a couple of abortive attempts, we deferred the conversation until Saturday when we can sit down face to face. That also means I’m back to square one for recording skype calls for podcasts. If all else fails, [...]
Technology lust
2005/01/11Well, I guess its time to max out my credit cards again. Here’s why. Yep – no doubt about. After a brief flirtation with Windows, I’m going back to a Mac for my next computer.
A Parable about Intellectual Property
2005/01/10This is the most coherent analysis of the current farcical intellectual property laws I have yet read. It was time for another Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension to keep Disney’s star property out of the public domain. Somebody’s nephew had a bright idea. Instead of telling Congress to add the standard twenty years to the length [...]
