Ah, another day, another raft of Blackboard & WebCT info that the companies themselves don’t seem to want to share with us :o) On the plagiarism front, looks like Safeassignment is not just a blip either, here’s an interesting post from an “Email automatically forwarded from my Blackboard listserv subscriptions” blog Blackboard Postings which describes …
Yearly Archives: 2005
WordPress Web Application of the Year!
Well deserved, arstechnica name WordPress web application of the year, come on over all of ya :o) [via Wordlog]
Communication Dynamics & Design
Unfortunately I don’t have time to really get in-depth with the results of the ad hoc research that preceded my communication dynamics paper at ASCILITE in December (results posted here (and here in .doc) anyone who wants to have a more thorough look please feel free to do so!) but I think I can come …
NOT the WebCT & Blackboard blog Day 2: Safeassignment, Users Becomimng Communities & ‘one-solution’ VLEs
It’s not all bad in the world our two favourite LMS/OLE/CMS/VLE etc. etc. providers, the Plagiarism Resource Site posting some good news about SafeAssignment working well in Blackboard (so there is an alternative to Turn it in!) and from Blackboard in Practice a romantic story about how “two different Blackboard users, hundreds of miles from …
Tsunami Donations
My donation went to Oxfam Australia, but these are just as worthwhile and here’s to WordMonger making the full $100. UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) United Nations’ World Food Programme Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders (donate!) CARE International The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies UK/Europe: Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) …
Skyrocketing prices, bugs, and ease-of-use problems
This article from Campus Technology (via XplanaRadio) introduces itself rather well: “Six years have passed since course management system vendors began selling products to universities. Today’s customers often feel shoved into a corner by their expensive CMS investment because the system is too costly, unstable, inflexible, and too clumsy for most faculty to learn and …
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IM Reality
A. How many K12 schools ban IM? B. How many University / Higher Ed Institution firewalls block it? C. How many on-campus labs, cafes are fitted with ICQ, MSN & Yahoo on the desktop? I’m just guessing here but I’d wager this is the story for the vast vast majority of organisations is: A. Lots …
NOT the WebCT & Blackboard blog
Well, it would seem fairly clear that despite my best efforts at persuasion ;o), BB and WebCT just don’t wanna go ‘a blogging so welcome to an incorporated subversion sub topic “Not the Blackboard & WebCT Blog”! For some reason the pubsubs I set up for our two favourite LMSs haven’t seemed to work (which …
Best of Blogs Education Category
Well it’s an improvement, the Best of Blogs site has an education category. Looks like it’s mostly K12 and home-schooling (well, there’s a blogosphere I didn’t know about!) but great to see Hipteacher & Pedablogue getting some recog there… they’ve also got much nicer badges than the eddies… roll on 2005, we’ll kick their… [More …
1500 items…
Phew, back on the case and just the 1500 or so Bloglines items to get through this morning… thanks to everyone who commented on the festive post, looks like I really needed the break, couldn’t even spell “Christmas” ;o)