Drupal CMS Academy Community Brainstorming Session #4 Join us on Sunday – October 15, 2006 5:30 p.m. GMT global times Do you have a Drupal site up and running? Are you thinking about jumping in to the world of Drupal? Please join us in our next* Drupal CMS Academy community brainstorming session. As part of…
At IU, we use Breeze for our online synchronous “classes”. However, I just attended an online presentation with the good folks at WorldBridges in which Skype + WebHuddle + text chat were used to create a pretty slick alternative to Breeze, now re-branded as “Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional” since the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe…
My professor introduced us to an interesting concept paper about Agile Instructional Design written by Peter Rawsthorme. One thing linked to another (as it usually does) and I have not only gained a new perspective on instructional design, but a new resource for mind bending ideas – see Peter's web site and current blog. At…
H.R.5749: To amend title 18, United States Code, to protect youth from exploitation by adults using the Internet, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep Foley, Mark [FL-16] (introduced 7/10/2006) … and for his backing of DOPA and other legislation to "protect" minors as Co-Chair of the Missing & Exploited Children’s Caucus …
Just pointing to a community notice I sent out yesterday for the Drupal CMS Academy, part of the Worldbridges network. For those interested in learning how to use Drupal, check out the collaborative learning environment that is under development and join us for some live Drupal community brainstorming on Sunday! Drupal CMS Academy Community Brainstorming…
One of the struggles with online learning is finding tools to create, publish and share text based media within the online learning environment. Here are just some of the many problems: Creating: Most of the written text that is created by students and teachers is MS Word based. While it is the best known text…
This is cool! Now how to explain it . . . the best thing to do is go to the site (textmark.com) and look at the nifty diagram they have concocted to explain it. In a nutshell, TextMark.com is an Internet based text messaging service where you set up a "message" that others can receive…
The Wall Street Journal had an article today (I'd link to it, but you need a paid subscription) about online swap markets for books. While the sites listed in the article differ slightly, they are all an attempt to cut out the middleman in the sale and purchase of used books (and in some cases…
My lowly little web site turned into a comment spammers paradise last Sunday. I had to delete over 500 comments that ranged from completely irrelevant to the site to downright disgusting. I had tried the Drupal module "bad behavior", but ended up somehow locking myself out of my own site. I'm sure that was due…
My mom (to this day) sends me out into the world with the same old family pep talk that she heard herself when she was a wee lass, "Be a good girl, have a good time, and learn a lot." Even if I am just running out to the grocery store, those are usually her…