Thanks for the “heads up” from D’Arcy Norman.net on the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) review from IBM Developer Works. Even though I’m a biased Drupal user, it is an interesting comparison of some of the most popular options, including Drupal (the winner!), Mambo, Typo3, Ruby on Rails, Movable Type, WordPress and TextPattern.
There has been a lot of press lately about the Net Generation. Educause published a series of articles on Educating the Net Generation. I began reading the series with an article from a student's perspective. Unfortunately, after reading the article, I do not have a clear understanding of the problem nor the author's suggestions for…
I attended AERA this week in my adopted “hometown” of NYC. I assumed that I would have things to post about and links to share, but I it really isn’t that kind of a conference. Given the 500 page fine print book of presentations, my goal was to see a handful of specific presenters ……
The old blog has been silent lately. It is because I am stuck – driven to distraction, so to speak. Looking back at recent blog posts, I see that I am clearly trying to crack a shared code within seemingly separate and distinct learning and instructional theories. After reading and hearing my ramblings about dynamic,…
In a prior post, I commented on the legislation impacting "net neutrality" that is making its way through the US House and Senate. I ran across a seemingly unrelated post today (it doesn't even discuss the ongoing net neutrality issue). However, it poignantly highlights the key problems that arise when network "operators" control "content access"…
This great newsletter popped into my inbox today from the folks behind Sprint. It’s got links to resources relevant to designers (aka “developers” in the instructional design world), including: This is a guide to teach yourself design created by Karen X. Cheng in 2013. Some of the resources are likely out of day, but lots…
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Great links… thanks for this. Gotta give Drupal another look, since I'm re-thinking my whole setup at the moment…. (in transition, as usual)