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Legal Likes GPL on openMLX (June 8, 2004 04:02 PM)
Got the call today from our Legal Department and they approve our plan for GPL licensing of an open source version of the Maricopa Learning eXchange (good thing cause we have been doing it anyhow). In fact, our legal counsel was impressed with "how clearly and humanly understandable the license... «more»
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MLX Writing Across the Curriculum Special Collection (June 6, 2004 08:03 PM)
A few weeks ago, the faculty developer at one of our colleges asked if we could create an MLX Special Collection for an upcoming summer institute on "Wwriting Across the Curriculum", so that participants could create a "starter" package for a project they would complete over the summer (I call... «more»
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First Baby Step for openMLX (May 25, 2004 09:10 AM)
Colen is hard at work on re-coding the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) for the proposed open-source version we hope to make available as an alpha soon. There is a good deal of restructuring of the code libraries, yanking some code logic from individual PHP files and putting them in the... «more»
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openMLX: Thumbs Up From Legal (May 13, 2004 01:03 PM)
Our legal department was supportive, even enthusiastic, about our plans to provide an openMLX, the propose open source version of the Maricopa Learning eXchange. They were not overly familiar with the details of open source licenses (they first proposed drafting up a new license), but seemed to understand our rationale... «more»
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Faculty ePortfolio, Google, and Kaching! Newly Registered Online Students (May 11, 2004 05:44 PM)
I mentioned recently how one of our faculty members had created an electronic portfolio for his faculty evaluation process. Well something funny happened in a very short time span. John was contacted by the link in his eportfolio by two students on the east coast who had searched Google for... «more»
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Introducing "Sharebacks"- the MLX Implementation of Trackback (May 11, 2004 04:40 PM)
The web elves have been doing some refining of our Maricopa Learning eXchange "packing slips"- mainly in the lower portions. For reference as we blog, see the MLX slip for the Correlation Meter. We wanted to make the commenting function for apparent by embedding the comment form directly in the... «more»
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openMLX (May 5, 2004 12:44 PM)
May will be "MLX" month. Or "Mad Mad Mad" month. We will be madly tinkering to try and ready an open source version of the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX). It has not been of lack of interest that has kept this from happening, but shortage of time, staff (we are... «more»
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16 New MLX Packages (or at least Assembled Boxes) (May 1, 2004 07:36 AM)
Yesterday the inventory at the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) climbed higher. As blogged earlier, the Civic Responsibility: From Awareness to Commitment Dialogue Day held yesterday (Apr 30, 2004) included activities where faculty from across our system submitted to the MLX their lesson ideas the involved some aspect of Civic Engagement-... «more»
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Civic Responsibility Dialogue Day: Direct Pipeline into the MLX (April 30, 2004 07:08 AM)
Here is an example of how we are tying events, projects into the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX), and using syndication technology to provide a service. Today is yet another of our Dialogue Days, one day topical faculty development activities-- Civic Responsibility: From Awareness to Commitment: What is the role of... «more»
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Getting MLX Comments Into MLX Comments (April 26, 2004 06:57 AM)
We are doing some tinkering soon on our Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) "packing slips" to increase the visibility and usage of the commenting tools, which are relatively unused situated near the very bottom of each packing slip. Ideally, this is the place MLX users would describe their potential, or real,... «more»
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Copyright Lesson Activity (April 8, 2004 10:59 AM)
Last week, we gave our online students an activity on Copyright and Fair Use: Do the Right Thing, which I have also recently posted in the Maricopa Learning eXchange: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/slip.php?item=1264 The subject merits almost an entire course in itself, but we boiled it down to sending them to to excellent... «more»
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MLX Great Package Race: The Sprint to the Finish Line (March 31, 2004 11:32 AM)
Months of pleading, cajoling, nagging our folks to contribute to the Maricopa Learning eXchange produced a fair stream of new items, but the 2 days prior to the close of our "Great Package Race" is when most of the action takes place. This is where we tabulate for a 6... «more»
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MLX Package of the Week: No Fear of Databases (March 25, 2004 11:37 AM)
Another task that has had its wheels fallen off was my plan to highlight different Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) packages of merit. We should be ramping up the loading dock, as we are nearing in the last week of our "Great MLX Package Race" incentive program (offering software prizes for... «more»
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Meta-Answer (March 17, 2004 09:08 AM)
Since I barked about needing an Idiot's Guide to Meta-Data, I have had some productive on and off blog posts with some folks that are a step above me in meta-awareness. Thanks to Sarah, who sent a link to the CETIS Draft Guide to Meta Data which shines some light... «more»
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MLX Has Dublin Core Metadata, Now What? (March 15, 2004 12:11 PM)
I've made some noise here and there about the value of meta-data, not that I do not believe it in it nor do I think it does not exist, but mainly, I have yet to see the applied use beyond searching. Out of last week's NMC Spring 2004 Online Conference,... «more»
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Captain Biff, Flies the MLX Lead Balloon, Powered By A Breeze (March 12, 2004 10:29 AM)
The New Media Consortium Spring 2004 Online Conference was come and gone this week. I am still favorable of the format, and its mix of streaming presentations, asynchronous discussions, and live chat sessions- most online conferences throw so many sessions and event son the pile that you get overloaded. The... «more»
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NMC Online Conference Post.... err.... Mortum? (March 9, 2004 01:20 PM)
This morning was the release of my keynote on "Mysteries Revealed! Inside the Maricopa Learning eXchange" at the New Media Consortium Spring 2004 Online Conference. This turned out to be a 52 minute Breeze presentation, weighing in at a 70.5 Mb in authored PowerPoint, but a streaming 15 Mb via... «more»
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Breeze-- A Mighty Wind-- But the Audio Editing Blows (March 6, 2004 11:14 AM)
Tuesday is my keynote presentation at the NMC Sipring 2004 Online Conference - register now to tune into "Mysteries Revealed! Inside the Maricopa Learning eXchange". For this presentation I, ahem, went well over the suggested length of 20 minutes, to more than 50 (!) but it covers a lot of... «more»
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Meta-Data Yeti-Data (March 3, 2004 09:40 PM)
My position have been made too many times regarding the apparent over-obsession with learning object meta-data, 4 words guaranteed used together will put most ordinary humans into a mild coma. I've given thought to meta-data and our Maricopa Learning eXchange, where the "M-D" words will never appear, but certainly lurk... «more»
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Mysteries Revealed! Inside the MLX (@NMC Mar 9) (March 2, 2004 11:56 PM)
I am coming up for air.... gasp.... gasp... This is crunch week for prepping my keynote session at the NMC Online Conference, scheduled for Tuesday March 9. My Breeze-d up show is called "Mysteries Revealed! Inside the Maricopa Learning eXchange" and should be action packed, irreverent, and over the top.... «more»
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Biff Cantrell / MLX Appearance at NMC Spring Online Conference (February 25, 2004 08:48 AM)
Rumors are that elusive character, Biff Cantrell, will be appearing at the New Media Consortium Spring Online Conference (March 8-11, 2004). The NMC Series of Online Conferences is a new form of meetings based on social computing concepts and delivered entirely online through a collaboration with NMC partners iCohere and... «more»
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MLX Happenings (February 15, 2004 01:18 AM)
I am behind in citing a package of the week, but some of the freshest include: Let Excel Track Your Attendance for You!!, SCC Online Weather Station, Online Learning: What Students Should Know, and Nutrition Learning Exercise. A few interesting things shaking out over at the Maricopa Learning eXchange. A... «more»
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Learning Object Reuse Acknowledgment (an idea, an acronym, and not much more) (February 13, 2004 11:23 AM)
One of the theories (myth?) for learning objects is that their cataloging is there to support re-use. But just making piles of objects in repositories does not intrinsically motivate re-use. About a year ago (BB before blogging, so the first mention was after the fact) I tinkered one afternoon with... «more»
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Waiting on the MLX... (February 7, 2004 07:53 PM)
I've been holding back the itch to gripe about how hard it still is to get the people in our system to squeeze a few minutes out of their day to share ideas and materials that already exist in the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) (past gripes 1, 2, 3 ...... «more»
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PubSub Offers a Neat Twist on Eating RSS Feeds (February 4, 2004 02:13 PM)
I've just taken a brief look at PubSub following some mentions at the RSS Winterfest. This service takes a different angle on aggregating feeds, almost "Downse-ian" like EduRSS in that you can track among thousands (they say) of RSS feeds for particular keyword searches. And the results are presented to... «more»
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MLX Package of the Week: The View from Where I Sit (February 1, 2004 11:44 AM)
Trying another "new aiming to be regular" CDB feature, highlighting an interesting ""package" from the Maricopa Learning eXchange. This is is special because it is not a "reusable learning object" (RLO) but a 'reusable idea object" (RIO?) Maybe we can breed a whole raft of meaningless acronyms, like RCA (re-usable... «more»
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The Mismanagement of Information (by Information Technology Specialists, No Less) (January 19, 2004 10:19 PM)
Sending attachments by email has become as ordinary as brushing your teeth... well, substitute your own regular habits. My mom reads and sends attachments. But is this always the best way to manage content that might be useful to others? at a later time? in an environment where it can... «more»
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The Ray of MLX Hope: Nutrition Faculty (January 8, 2004 02:32 PM)
As a brighter followup to the repository folly, I am excited by an event planned next week by a lead faculty member in the Nutrition area at one of our colleges. As she explained, there are not a large number of faculty in this discipline across of colleges and many... «more»
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Repository Folly... (January 8, 2004 02:04 PM)
By rule, I usually avoid use of the "R-word" (repository, too close to the "S-word"), but wanted to launch, here just a few notches into a new calendar, my pessimism on the aspirations of those creating these magical collections of "learning objects." The folly is that educators will give up... «more»
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Back to Promoting MLX (December 10, 2003 09:56 PM)
It is time to crank up the promotion department for the Maricopa Learing eXchange (MLX), given that the semester is winding down. We have set up a new PR area that links all of the MLX presentation and news tidbits. With the exception of a nice burst of 15 entries... «more»
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NMC Presentation: "Connecting Learning Objects with RSS, Trackback, and Weblogs" (October 27, 2003 11:28 AM)
If you were unable to attend the New Media Consortium (NMC)'s Online Conference on Learning Objects iin October, you missed out on some great sessions and exchange of ideas, as well as a brand new platform for online conferences. All presentations were created with Marcomedia Breeze (in essence streaming audio... «more»
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League Bloggin': MLX (October 20, 2003 02:14 PM)
Wow, now this was probably the best presentation at this conference.... wait a minute.... Can I blog my own presentation at the League for Innovation Conference? (well not while I am doing it). This morning we gave our show on Building an Innovation Collection (with a bit of Competition and... «more»
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"Building the MLX..." presentation (October 16, 2003 03:54 PM)
Faithful CDB readers get this early glimpse at Building an Innovation Collection (with a bit of Competition and Bribery), a presentation for Monday, October 20, at the League for Innovation Conference on Information Technology in Milwaukee. This is less a technical presentation and more about the strategies we have used... «more»
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Derivative or Relating MLX Packages (October 15, 2003 10:47 AM)
I am just trying to flesh out a new idea for the Maricopa Learning eXchange. Since we have now real stories of how our faculty are using and modifying MLX content. I am hoping we can set up some new tools that can allow someone to create a new MLX... «more»
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Learning Objects: Believe It or Not! (October 9, 2003 09:29 PM)
Here is a sneaky dog's first peek at Learning Objects: Believe It or Not!, the gist of what I am presenting 1:00 PM Friday as part of the "Learning Objects Lounge" at the EDUCAUSE/NLII Focus Session on Learning Objects. Please do not alert the lawyers for the Ripley's enterprise. It... «more»
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Lora and Boris Show (part deux) (October 9, 2003 09:06 AM)
Our learning object bloggers Lora and Boris are making a second appearance at the October 14-17 NMC Online Conference on Learning Objects. Taking to a new level their story presented at MERLOT 2003, a garden varierty PowerPoint, for the NMC conference they have speaking parts as well, as the presentation... «more»
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Repository of (Learning Object) Dreams (October 2, 2003 01:10 PM)
There is almost nothing more cliche than a Field of Dreams metaphor "If you build it, they will come", but it is all so fitting for those that get glaze-eyed at the potential of building a Learning Object Repository (ugh, I despise the connotations of the "R-word"). But I can... «more»
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The MLX Great Race Ends Tonight (September 30, 2003 04:52 PM)
Our iincentive program for getting people in our system to contribute items to the Maricopa Learning eXchange ends tonight at midnight (and starts up again for the next round one minute later). See more about The Great Package Race. What we are doing is tracking all items contributed over a... «more»
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Hot off the Presses: MLX Special Collections (September 17, 2003 11:55 AM)
This is the first glance at a new part of the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX), what we are calling MLX Special Collections: An MLX special collection is a set of packages associated with a specific project or program. We created this functionality to provide unique MLX URLs that would generate... «more»
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MLX New Feature: Public View of My Packages (August 21, 2003 04:50 PM)
We just added a new feature to the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX)- every person that creates an account in the MLX receives their own unique URL that produces a publicly viewable web page that lists all packages entered by that person. For example, my packages are one link away: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/mlx/mine.php?id=160... «more»
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Maricopa Learning eXchange poster from MERLOT (August 21, 2003 03:27 PM)
For those not lucky enough to attend the MERLOT 2003 conference (any conf in Vancouver is worthy), I just posted the content from our MLX poster session: Building the Maricopa Learning eXchange (Using a Bit of Competition and Bribery). How do you cultivate the use and contribution to a learning... «more»
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We Would Clone MLX If.... (August 7, 2003 12:00 AM)
We are flattered. David is aiming for a clone of our Maricopa Learning eXchange, and is added to the list of people requesting a copy of it. We are not being stingy and would love to put the code out there. For the 10 years I have been web publishing,... «more»
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The MLX Poster Lands at MERLOT (August 6, 2003 10:30 AM)
It is here. It is not on a board or two dimensional or a tri-fold, and features real packages. The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) poster session has appeared at the MERLOT conference (no thanks to UPS and customs goofups). It is all representational- a model train representing the "warehouse" metaphor,... «more»
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The Fuss wiki is Open (July 9, 2003 04:31 PM)
Okay folks. We have polished off most of the rough edges of the wiki part of our presentation on What's the Fuss abour RSS? and are here tossing it out for your viewing. Update (Sept 3, 2003) The wiki has been spiffed up and moved to http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TheFuss... «more»
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a teaser for "Fuss about RSS" (July 9, 2003 10:26 AM)
This is just a pre-notice teaser for our upcoming LOVCOP teleconference on July 11, 2003: What's the Fuss about RSS?. Tune in at 9 am Pacific, 10 am Mountain, 11 am Central, noon Eastern. For access details (it is a toll free call), rush and click over to the LOVCOP... «more»
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3 @ NMC Summer Conference (June 13, 2003 02:46 PM)
It's been a jam packed day at the New Media Consortium 2003 summer conference in lovely (humid) Blacksburg Virginia (Hokie-land, Virginia Tech). The Maricopa Learning eXchange got a large dose of exposure today, and I am thinking many people are going home thinking "Gotta do a Google on RSS"... «more»
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About Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) (April 19, 2003 03:21 PM)
There is a rather long history to this project (see articles form 2000 here and here)-- but its main purpose is to provide an easily accessible collection of innovative practices and projects developed at the Maricopa Community Colleges. This year we have moved on several different fronts to build the... «more»
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