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Course Mangement Systems as the Gentrification of EdTech

Published by Reverend July 24th, 2008 in films, insructional technology and movies. 22 Comments

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Here at UMW we have been going through a CMS Review. It has been a pretty interesting project, and while I only tangentially involved, I have been following the basic rhetorical thrust of the sales pitches from companies like Desire2Learn, BlackBoard, and Angel (well be getting in-house demos of Sakai and [...]

Sorry, We’re Open

Published by Reverend July 17th, 2008 in edupunk and insructional technology. 23 Comments

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I have to be honest with you, I’m getting more and more confused with the term “open” when used in the context of educational technology these days. The term has been popular in software development for decades, particularly in relationship to [[free and open source software]] (FOSS). This [...]

The Glass Bees

Published by Reverend May 25th, 2008 in Uncategorized, books and insructional technology. 70 Comments

With my no-internet, hippie-like vacation to [[Montauk, New York|Montauk]] behind me now, I can return to the bava and continue the excruciating futility that is my life online. I enjoyed the time away because I was able to do something I hadn’t done in too long, i.e., read a few books that have nothing to [...]

This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 3

Published by Reverend May 10th, 2008 in e-portfolios and eduglu. 3 Comments

So, to pick up on parts 1 and 2, part 3 is an examination of some of the uses and possibilities of feed-driven architecture for dealing with the varying ways we might understand a portfolio, which—as Stephen Downes notes here—is in the midst of a pretty significant transformation. A change premised on re-imagining the portfolio [...]

WPMu as eduglu?

Published by Reverend March 9th, 2008 in insructional technology, open education, plugins, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 3 Comments

I find myself experiencing a kind of joyful obsolescence at the moment while reading the recent stream of posts from Andre Malan’s blog. I’m nothing short of blown away, and if you are at all interested in WPMu as an educational publishing platform (that will, indeed, prove the prototype of a “BlackBoard killer” sooner [...]