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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 [...]

WordPress as CMS

Published by Reverend February 12th, 2008 in WordPress, plugins, themes, widgets, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 6 Comments

Ok, so in addition to the Moosecamp session “Wordpress Anonymous” on Friday (depending on interest) and the “Don’t Call it a Blog, call it an Educational Publishing Platform” on Saturday, Lloyd Budd recently facebooked me asking if I would “lead” a small group for issues and questions about using WordPress as a CMS (I’m trying [...]

How “open-source” is Sakai?

Published by Reverend September 13th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 18 Comments

Yesterday I had the privilege of heading down to the University of Virginia and catching up with Steve Stedman and crew who are strongly considering piloting a WordPress Multi-user installation for their ITC group. We talked a bit over a Mexican lunch about Content Management Systems in general (Patrick turned them on to Drupal, and [...]

Preserving the Past with Futuristic Tools

Published by Reverend February 25th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 2 Comments

One of the projects that I have been working on this semester has been the development of an onine exhibit with the museum lab class in the Historic Preservation department. As this project builds momentum, I am starting to get really excited about the work already done as well as the herculean tasks that [...]