Blog Posts
Sakai Solo Correction
--It’s been pointed out to me (and I should have remembered anyways) that Solo, the offline Sakai, is a collaboration between NWU and UNISA. I&...
No roles: Latest in the D2L patent suit
--This isn’t really an update on the overall progress of the D2L/Bb lawsuit or an update on the USPTO reexamination of the patent, but I was in...
Sakai Solo and OpenSyllabus
--There are two projects inside Sakai that have attracted my attention and I think should have yours as well. The first, which I’ve written abo...
Blackboard-Sakai Connector
--Well, I’m sure you’ve all seen the article about the Bb-Sakai connector in Inside Higher Education. Both Chuck and I were quoted and Ch...
Paris conference highlights
--I’m sitting at the Cambridge Hackathon with an amazing group of Sakai contributors and I’m sure there will be a variety of good outcome...
Sakai in Paris, Day 1
--I arrived in Paris late Thursday afternoon, so Friday was my first full day in the city. The hotel is very nice although everyone staying here seem...
Moodle Conference
--Last week, by invitation of Jason Cole (author of Using Moodle), I attended the Moodle Moot in South San Francisco. The highlight was Martin Dougia...
Sakai Conference Attendees
--In case you didn’t see the announcement on the email lists, we’ve just enabled the “Sakai Faces” functionality on the confe...
Moodle Moot in San Francisco
--I’ve met Jason Cole (author of Using Moodle) on a couple of occasions. He’s also attended at least one Sakai Conference and I’m ...
2008 Sakai Fellows!
--In case you didn’t see the announcement on the email lists, the 2008 Sakai Fellows have been selected. We had a large set of qualified nomine...
Bay Area Sakai BBQ
--Saturday was the first (annual?) SF Bay Area Sakai BBQ, held at my house in Berkeley. About 30 folks showed up including, as you might expect, peop...
Sakai (and me) in Europe
--The upcoming Sakai Conference in Paris will be the second year in a row in which a Sakai Community conference has been held in Europe. In part we&#...
Bollywood, Open Source and Blackboard
--So two people sent me the same set of videos on the same day. I guess something is in the air and I thought I’d pass along the virus… T...
Openness and Sakai History
--There was an excellent exchange recently on the Sakai Teaching & Learning email list (pedagogy@collab.sakaiproject.org) about how open Sakai is...
Common Cartridge is cool; LTI is even cooler
--I spent Monday and Tuesday at the IMS Learning Impact conference in Austin Texas. I got to see a few folks who I often see at learning technology i...
Githens and LISP and the Code Critiquer
--So I was talking to Steve Githens at a bar in St. Paul two weeks ago. He was showing me Sash running as a Sakai tool, which I have to admit I didn&...
Sakai Project Planning Meeting in St. Paul
--As Dr. Chuck indicated in a comment to an earlier blog post of mine, the St. Paul Sakai Project Planning meetings were quite efficient and successf...
Sakai Project Planning Meeting in St. Paul
--As Dr. Chuck indicated in a comment to an earlier blog post of mine, the St. Paul Sakai Project Planning meetings were quite efficient and successf...
Georgia Tech, Bedework, and Enlightened Self-Interest
--I have so much to say about what went on in St. Paul at the JA-Sig Spring Conference that I hardly know where to begin. I’ll start with a mee...
JA-Sig Spring 2008 Conference
--Well it seems like a long time ago now but the JA-Sig Spring Conference was a big success from my perspective. This was pitched as a “Communi...
Columbia University Adopts Sakai
--I’m sitting in a project planning meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota (going very well and more to say about that later) when an great announcemen...
Saginaw Valley State Turns on Sakai
--I recent spoke with the online learning team at Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU). They let me know that in May of this year, Sakai will becom...
JavaScript Toolkits from Fluid
--In case you don’t follow the Fluid lists/blogs, I want to draw your attention to an extremely high quality blog entry from Colin Clark, Techn...
Sakai Paris Speakers Announced
--I’m extremely pleased to announce that Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies at the London Knowledge Lab, will be...
Education and the feature-cost dilemma
--Sakai board member Josh Baron drew my attention to a recent controversy in the MySQL community. The article describes MySQL’s plans to withho...
Sakai and Facebook: A student perspective
--I thought I was done blogging about the Rhode Island Sakai Conference, but just before I left I attended such a fantastic session that I can’...
Rhode Island Sakai Conference (K-12)
--On Tuesday and Wednesday I participated in the Rhode Island Sakai Conference in Newport, RI. The conference has a K-12 focus and is, as far as I kn...
Stanford Women’s Basketball
--So those of you from outside the United States probably don’t really understand the mania involved in major college athletics here. And IR...
Brock University Adopts Sakai
--I was pleased to see an announcement from Brock University’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Educational Technologies (CTLET) that they wil...
Sakai Update on Blackboard Patent Rejection
--Today the Sakai Foundation released it’s formal statement commenting on the recent US Patent and Trademark Office action regarding the Blackb...
University of Delaware Adopts Sakai
--I’m very pleased to announce that the University of Delaware has officially announced that they will be moving from WebCT to Sakai! The Unive...
9th Sakai Conference Proposal Deadline Extended
--We’ve had requests from several folks in the community about extending the proposal deadline for the 9th Sakai Conference in Paris. I’m...
Sakai Teaching and Learning Award
--The Teaching & Learning group in the Sakai community has been very active recently. They had some terrific sessions at the Newport Beach Confe...
Sakai 2.5.0 Released
--I’m very pleased to announce that Sakai 2.5.0 is now officially available on the Sakai website! Source, binary and demo distributions are av...
Sakaisthelimit
--I’m pleased to announce that Serensoft, a Sakai Commercial Affiliate, has recently teamed up with Agilearn and OLI to offer a new way to test...
Sakai Fellows Program Restarting
--After a year of benign neglect due to the transition between Executive Directors, the Sakai Fellows program was a bit stalled. I’m pleased to...
2008 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration
--Chris Mackie of the Mellon Foundation reminded me of the following award nominations coming up. Get your nominations in soon…. Deadline Appr...
9th Sakai Conference in Paris!
--As you probably know, we will be returning to Europe for the 9th Sakai Conference. After a very successful and well-attended conference in Amsterda...
Dayton Adopts Sakai!
--I’m very pleased to announce that the University of Dayton (in my home state of Ohio) has recently made public their decision to adopt Sakai!...
LaSalle University in Barcelona (e-portfolios!)
--The last day of my trip to Spain was spent in Barcelona (my favorite European city after Paris, although I haven’t visited that many cities i...
UPV and Sakai
--On Thursday, March 6th, I visited the Universidad Politècnica de València. The day before I had been part of the CRUE conference which was hosted ...
CRUE: Sakai in Valencia
--Every country runs their educational funding in a different way. There is a big contrast, for example, between the United States (many private univ...
Sakai Day in China: HuaZhong Normal University
--On Saturday, March 1st, HuaZhong Normal University (also known as Central China Normal University) hosted the first official Sakai Day in China. Hu...
Beijing Visit, Day 2
--The second day in Beijing (Thursday February 28th) we visited Beijing University (also called Peking University and not to be confused with Beijing...
Beijing Visit, Day 1
--After a long and tedious set of taxi rides and flights and security lines (24 hours end-to-end from Wuhan to Barcelona) I’m writing this entry on p...
Arrived in China
--After a long but uneventful trip I’m in China with Melissa Zhuo from Clarement McKenna and Xingtang Wu from Indiana. More later on the conten...
Blackboard-Desire2Learn Verdict
--As you probably have heard by now, Blackboard received a favorable verdict in its patent lawsuit against Desire2Learn. In addition to a financial j...
Sakai 2.5.0 Nearly Ready
--I’m very pleased to announce that we’re swiftly approaching the release of Sakai 2.5.0. Peter Knoop’s update describes the excell...
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