Made it into JA-SIG: ran into Susan on the flight from Newark, which was kind of surreal. The irony was that immediately before seeing her at the gate, I was thinking to myself how strange it is that I’ve never run into anyone else I knew while travelling out to one of these conferences. Arriving ...
An Agile Update for Mansueto Digital: Here’s an update: we’ve been running one of the most complex projects ever undertaken in business journalism, called the Inc. 5,000, using a variation of agile known as a scrum. Interesting to see software development processes being applied out more of a pure business environment. This kind of experimentation ...
Using Sakai in multiple institutional research settings – AERS Case Study: Adult Literacy – used resources for file storage and as a documentation store, and diary entries stored as discussion entries. Teams liked the ability to contribute entries/discussions asynchronously, and despite being in many separate locations. Site Stats showed that most visits were content reads ...
Jeshua Pacifici talked a bit about his experiences migrating from Blackboard to Sakai. Very broad detail focused, less information on the technical and detail sides of migrations (e.g. how to get Courses/Projects out of Blackboard). High level overview of some benefits, caveats, and others.
In Denver @ JA-SIG
Jun
24
2007
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