Similar to the letter CEO Michael Chasen sent to EdTech Talk, a "message" to the client "community" was released on the Blackboard Blog today. Apparently, the crush of criticism by edubloggers is "creating confusion for many people" (and maybe an Excedrin sized headache for Blackboard?) In the "message" of clarity, Chasen notes that: "Some of […]
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The EdTechTalk live webcast #58 on the Blackboard patent and DOPA issues just finished up and I encourage everyone to catch the recording once it is edited and uploaded. The shownotes include a letter from BlackBoard CEO, Michael Chasin submitted in response to EdTechTalk's request for a representative to appear on the show. Martin Dougiamas
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Since my post about meebo back in March, meebo has become my IM client of choice. I even use it in my discussion group for one of my classes. Web based means I can access it anywhere on any computer (on my Mac and PC) and with no downloads. Best of all, it works will
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Windows Live Spaces went “live” – here is my test space. Maybe more than fashionably late with an update to MSN Spaces, it is a pretty good looking update none the less. Part blog platform / part social networking site / part mini-CMS (with photo storage), my first glance didn’t produce any a-has. Discoveryspaces.live.com displays
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Cnet news.com and Rollcall.com (from summary in FreePress.net) report that Senator Stevens is pushing hard to the get the support he needs to get a rapid vote before the August 7 – September 4 recess – So, it may be time to say, SPEAK NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE! Here is how things currently
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Wow. I grabbed some sleep last night and woke to see this inspiring piece from Steven Downes. Seems the online learning world has once again rallied (gosh, net neutrality, then DOPA and now the Blackboard patent) and is quickly getting its collective ducks in a row pulling together a historical "prior art" record (see links
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With DOPA and net neutrality taking up so much space, I was almost going to let this story pass. I mean, Blackboard couldn't really try to enforce a patent related to such a nebulous concept as technology relating to systems and methods involved in offering online education, could they? Well, they did – as seen
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The latest FCC report on U.S. High Speed Internet Access was released on July 26th. The report notes that high speed connections to the Internet increased by 33% in 2005 to 50.2 million total high speed lines. Just over 85% of the high speed lines were serving residential end users. For the first time, the
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