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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

Image thanks to Lulu Vision

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Spore Collective Manifesto

Published by Reverend February 27th, 2008 in UMW Blogs, art and insructional technology. 1 Comment

Image courtesy of tonx.
Over at the Not For Nothing blog by Kaitlin Butler, a UMW Art major, there is a wild post about The Spore Collective Manifesto that her sculpture class has framed as a way for experimenting more radically with their artwork. Here is how she describes this manifesto:
The Spore Collective Manifesto, now featured [...]