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  • At eportfolio workshop

    I’m at an eportfolio workshop at Stanford. More on that later. The weather here is beautiful, much milder than in New Hampshire. I had no idea. On the other hand, there is a “What to do when there’s an earthquake” card in my hotel room. So perhaps a mixed bag. Continue reading

  • There is no “tech”. Get over it.

    Via SmartMobs, regarding our millenials: “Young people don’t see “tech” as a separate entity – it’s an organic part of their lives,” said Andrew Davidson, vice president of MTV’s VBS International Insight unit. “Talking to them about the role of technology in their lifestyle would be like talking to kids in the 1980s about the… Continue reading

  • Progress on loosely coupled assessment

    So we watched a presentation yesterday by True Outcomes, and of course I had to hold my nose a bit. I come from the “merit badge” school of Roger Schank, that ideally assessments fall into to the category of “Student X can build a fire, and we know that because he built a fire” (or… Continue reading

  • First 35 claims of Blackboard’s patent ruled invalid

    Here. (h/t S. Downes) So my thought for the day: What are we doing to make sure this situation does not repeat itself with PLEs and PKMs? Continue reading

  • Panels

    I just got back from YearlyKos, where I was an “expert” on a panel on local blogging. It was the middle panel of a series of three on the issue (local blogging is THE hot topic right now). I thought our panel went pretty well. We got into interesting issues, we had an active audience,… Continue reading

  • Prometheus Meets the Enterprise Management System

    Prometheus, holding a torch, enters a small office in a corporate IT department. At the desk is Fred, who looks up when he enters. Prometheus: Behold, I bring you fire! Fred: Great! We’ve heard about the fire market. Very exciting. So is that it? That flaming stick you’re holding? That’s the product? How many do… Continue reading

  • EPortaro demonstration today (any help?)

    I’m attending an EPortaro demonstration in about 50 minutes. If you read this blog at all, you can probably guess what I think about such eportfolio solutions. It’s 2000 all over again, with vendors coming in to save us from the big, bad internet. Still, my opinion is probably the minority one on my commitee,… Continue reading

  • Where will the wave come from?

    I love talking the theory, but it’s even nicer to see practical notes from people implementing solutions. From a recent post over here, some WordPress MU as class-space experimentation… Teachers are finding WordPress MU easy to use and I’m very happy to see that. Currently, Teacher Assistants are recording students as they read their writings… Continue reading

  • You’re already out there

    This just in: July 25, 2007 (Computerworld) — Millions of documents, both government and private, containing sensitive and sometimes classified information are floating about freely on file sharing networks after being inadvertently exposed by individuals downloading P2P software on systems that held the data, members of a House committee were told yesterday. Among the documents… Continue reading

  • It’s not just Experts vs. Amateurs. It’s Experts vs. Experts in Something Else.

    So there’s not much subtlety in a recent comment on Jon Udell’s call to experiment with local weather data and look for trends. After reading Jon’s piece on using Many Eyes to determine local trends, Brendan Lane Larson, a Weather Informaticist, writes: Your vague “we” combined with the demonstration of the Many Eyes site trivializes… Continue reading