DCT (new site) is poking Drupal with a stick, especially in terms of multiple sites, and has a few up and running (go check out the post for those). He concludes that there’s a long way to go: “It’s pretty clear to me that a Drupal site per class is not a particularly good model …
Author Archives: James
Communication Dynamics Research Results
At the presentation of my paper, Communication dynamics: Discussion boards, weblogs and the development of communities of inquiry in online learning environments at ASCILITE 2004 I started off by doing a quick bit of research (see .ppt presentation here). Basically I handed out blank sheets to the audience and asked them, in a minute per …
Powazek & Technorati
Technorati have done the best thing ever by hiring Derek Powazek, period. Here are some of the first tweaks he’s applying… if I ran my University…
Pubsubs
It’s almost a shame I’m off on holidays after tomorrow, I’ve created two pubsubs, one for WebCT and the other for Blackboard… let’s see what we come up with.
Learn how to compile in WebCT
See… you could post links to stuff like this: “My colleague Erika and I have been exploring Macromedia Captivate. Here’s a presentation that we made that will be used to introduce students taking a WebCT course how to use the Compile Tool….” [elearning acupuncture] Or you can have people link me linking to it first …
Term Paper Help
The elearning queen rocks with a set of 32 guides containing “Numerous flowcharts, survival guides, and indispensable help for all your academic writing, including term papers, first-year composition, advanced composition, research papers, theses, and dissertations.”
Reflections on using a wiki
John Blake has been an absolute incsub legend in the first few months we’ve been going, he’s been pushing and developing PHPWiki and TikiWiki to the absolute max and has achieved some really cool things (check out the PHPWiki site here and the TikiWiki site here). John’s also keeping an incsub association blog which I’d …
One Up WebCT (in a good way)
First to take up the call is Karen Gage, vice-president Marketing from WebCT (as of a year ago, can’t confirm that now). Karen’s added to the Campus > Vista > Future post quoting a letter sent out by WebCT to customers a bit back that Scott quoted, read the comment here. OK, it’s hardly spirited …
Podcasting with Drupal
Outstanding! Aldon Hynes of orient lodge comments that he’s written a patch that allows podcasting in Drupal: “I’ve written a patch to the upload.module of Drupal so that Drupal can be used for Podcasting. I’ve used it on one CivicSpace 0.8 site. Since CivicSpace 0.8 is essentially a customized version of Drupal 4.5, I suspect …
Retiring what works
OK, I’ll kick off with something from Dr B: “Heaven forbid teachers would want to use technologies past courseware in a box! Why would we want to use listservs or Telnet to check email when it can all be done within the clunky, useless interface of WebCT??” I could be good at this, couldn’t I …