Blackboard Weblog

I’m probably the last person to post about this but hey, Blackboard has a weblog. Now… what we need is Greg Ritter as Scoble! Seriously though, good on ya BB, there are comments, a feed, some reassuringly honest writing (god, please never never go back to those press releases… pleeeeeeeease), some sneaks into new products …

The Participatory Education Revolution

Here’s an interesting bit of a presentation from Educause entitled The Participatory Education Revolution (abstract). Kinda like that cluetrain for education meme that Scott Adams was playing with a bit ago. “Education is a conversation. A conversation between teacher and student. A conversation amongst students, educators and industry. A conversation with the communities in which …

Weblog as a research notebook

Lilia has three wonderful posts on weblogs as individual research tools. They are: (1) reading ‘Life online’ and del.icio.us as bookmarking history (2) types of notes (3) my own experiences

Any LAMS?

Hmmm… just got, via email, an invitation to “a cocktail reception to celebrate the worldwide launch of the revolutionary new e-learning system – LAMS.” It goes on to say that “LAMS is being released as a freely available open source software.” Which is all good as it currently isn’t… so has anyone used this, does …