Archive for the 'Sakai' Category

OSP ePortfolios & Sakai Courseware?

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

I started this entry while I was riding a train back from the Laguardia ePortfolio Conference I’m endeavoring to reflect upon and synthesize threads from various (enlightening) presentations I’ve seen, and discussions I’ve had the privilege of participating in. First a brief plug: the content from the conference was fantastic — many congratulations to the [...]

Desire2Blog: Sakai Seems to Think It’s Over

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Desire2Blog: Sakai Seems to Think It’s Over: Maybe Sakai thinks they are finished with this thing, but I’m pretty sure that D2L, SFLC, Blackboard, and all the other players are expecting it to continue on for quite some time. It could very well be that their input from this point forward will be minimal or less. [...]

Portals and LMSs (and Collaboration, SIS, Library, and other Suites)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Clay from Georgia Tech shot me an email recently which spurred me to try and put to words how my thinking has evolved about the relationship of an enterprise portal and Sakai, and where these technologies and communities are heading.

In general I think the focus of “enterprise portals” has always been one of integration and [...]

“Blackboard may lose its patent…”

Monday, March 31st, 2008

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a preliminary decision Tuesday that would invalidate Blackboard Inc.’s patent on its e-learning management systems.

(Via Washington Business Journal.)

Blackboard Won. Making the case for open source

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Blackboard Won:This just in A Texas jury has found Kitchener software company Desire2Learn Inc. guilty of infringing on an American competitor’s patent.The verdict, announced this afternoon, allows Blackboard Inc. to demand a ban on sales of Desire2Learn’s products in the United States.(Via e-Literate.)Michael F. isn’t the only one who’s speechless at this decision. The [...]

Jason’s Employment 2.0

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Well the questions are pouring in (mostly due to my tardiness in writing this kind of announcement) and so, without farther ado…

What Happened?

While it still feels a little strange to say it, as of 2 Fridays ago (2/8) I am no longer employed at Rutgers University. Over the last 9 years as first a student, [...]

Maven 2 tar.gz issues

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

I reinstalled my local copy of maven2 recently, and thought I’d add into to google a problem I experienced trying to unarchive the tar.gz or tar.bz2 flavors of their binary distribution. (.zip filesSowohl die Konstellation des eigenen Blattes wie auch Spieltaktiken, wie Bluffen lassen sich statistisch bewerten, daher online poker kostenlos gute Online Kasinopoker Spieler [...]

Back on PlanetSakai

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Should be showing up on planetsakai.org again. Guess my URLs aren’t cool, since they changed…

SakaiCon Recap

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Sitting on a flight, returning from the Sakai conference — still trying to take everything in. There’ll probably be more musing on the significance of specific items coming up, but things that struck me enough to want to brain dump were:

There was wide consensus during the planning sessions that there’s a desire to focus on [...]

SakaiCon: NYC Regional Sakai User Group

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

I just sat on a panel talking about some of the ongoings at the regional groups around Sakai — California, Australia, the Netherlands, and of course NYC. Sounds like there’s starting to be a lot of activity around certain areas. It was interesting to see that many of the regional organizations were very event-focused, almost [...]

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