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 [...]

I 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 [...]

I 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 [...]

Thanks 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 [...]

Thanks 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 [...]

Oh 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).

Despite 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 [...]

I 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 [...]

Well, 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.

This is the most coherent analysis of the current farcical intellectual property laws I have yet read.