375 posts tagged blackboard
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This ain’t yo mama’s e-portfolio, part 3
http://bavatuesdays.com/ this-aint-yo-mamas-e-portfolio-part-3/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.
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My recommendations for getting started in Second Life
http://nkilkenny.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 01/ my-recommendations-for-getting-sta…I found a Blackboard booth… ironic isn’t it? If you combined Second Life with Blackboard, you’d get… anyone, anyone? Our experiences with blackboard have been somewhat limited. Their communication and chat tools didn’t work very well. There system seems fine for people who only want to communicate via e-mail or forum, but that is so 1990’s.
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Is Blackboard’s Lawyer Calling D2L’s Customers?
http://mfeldstein.com/ is-blackboards-lawyer-calling-d2ls-customers/Here’s an interesting bit from D2L’s patent blog: Clients have been calling us to let us know that Matthew Small, General Counsel of Blackboard, has been calling them. From what we understand, his purpose appears to be twofold: (1) to encourage clients to switch to Blackboard ; and (2) to create
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Quotes XXI: How is logic like whiskey?
http://letsplaymath.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 04/ 24/ quotes-logic-like-whiskey/Photo by Brian - Progressive Spin. Logic is the science of making valid deductions and proofs — and it is also a fruitful topic for blackboard quotes. Here are a few of my favorites: You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. — G. K.
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Haunted Places
http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 04/ haunted-places.htmlSorry about the sparse editorial content here lately. Between weather good enough to get on the land and Liz's internship, time to write is sparse too (thank God for the camera so at least I have something to post). However, here is a link to a list of haunted places that my dear cousin shared.
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ITaP services restored yesterday after major outage
http://www.lafayette-online.com/ news/ purdue/ 2008/ 04/ itap-services-restored-…WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — ITaP services, including OnePurdue, SSINFO, Banner, and Blackboard Vista, were restored yesterday (Tuesday, April 15) after being unavailable off and on following an outage Sunday. Most services were back up by 12:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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New Chicken House
http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 04/ new-chicken-house.htmlA story that began when Alan was nearly struck by lightning and bent the barrel of his brand new shotgun has nearly reached its conclusion.... He set a lot of stock in that gun (no pun intended) and felt really bad about bending it when he threw it away from him to roll down the hill and miss getting struck.
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Swee-e-e-t
http://northviewdiary.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 04/ swee-e-e-t.htmlOur maple guy stopped by yesterday. Thanks, Steve! It was a pretty morning too.
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Course Management System Content Conversion Tools wikipage
http://www.edtechpost.ca/ wordpress/ 2008/ 04/ 14/ interoperability-the-hard-way…http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/CMS+Conversion+Tools One of my main gigs is running a repository service to help faculty here in BC share online course content. As I have likely lamented far too many times, the bane of my existence is the uneven support for content interoperability across the various course management systems.
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A new hope for e-learning
http://www.educationfutures.com/ 2008/ 04/ 14/ a-new-hope-for-e-learning/Desire2Learn’s challenge of Blackboard’s e-learning patents have resulted in an initial action by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that invalidated all 44 of the Blackboard patents questioned. The action is not final, yet, and both parties have 60 days to respond.