(Taking a break from my current Kiwi blogging action, cannot stay away). In Learning Objects: A Practical Definition Rory McGreal takes a somewhat noble effort to wrestle the learning object monster. I was looking for that grail like singular uber definition. Is it there? I love reading things like: LOs are sometimes defined as being […]
As some of locals will be saying, “Kia Ora”…. This blog is about to be flipped.
In about 10 hours I am on my way to Auckland, New Zealand for 3 weeks of invited workshops primarily at my hosts at UNITEC with other visits scheduled to Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Waikato Institute of Technology, and Manukau Institute of Technology. Some of this has been continued communication with colleagues I met during my sabbatical visit in 2000.
Time to synchronize watches, either by my personal World Clock or this quick hack effort:
Phoenix Time: ” . date(“M d Y, h:i a”, $now) . “
Auckland Time ” . date(“M d Y, h:i a”, $now + 20 * 3600);
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With this time there, I shall not be actively blogging here, but will be on my inverted CogDogBlog located on a UNITEC server, or the CogDog(kiwi)Blog. I am setting up an embedded feed from my NZ blog to keep things connected here at home…
Wow, how do some of the key pioneers of the web have time to fun for elected positions in Arizona? Among the piles of colorful signs crowding every street corner, I have seen some familiar names pop out on the ballot for November 2… Is Eric Meyer, who’s books and web sites have paved the […]
flickr foto Cog (No Dog) Railwayavailable on my flickr This technology pulled us up 25% grades to the top of Pikes Peak, Colorado aboard the Cog Railway. Yes, the camera has safely returned to Arizona, all 130 photos in tact. Whew! Not much time to process them with 2 more days left before our next […]
Actually, my vacation time in Colorado did wonders to revive my spirits after 4 days at the EDUCAUSE 2004 conference. I’ve grumbled before about the sour irony that the dominant mode of communication in our field of instructional technology (or pretty much all other conference gatherings) is the very unwired, tired…. 50 minute lecture to […]
Just returned home from 5 days of being a sightseeing fool up and down the Rocky Mountains following last week’s EDUCAUSE conference in Denver. I’ve got a big of pile photos to flickr up, but it will be delayed following a harrowing experience having accidently leaving my digital camera at a restaurant in Colorado Springs, […]
This blog will go into a period of non-activity the next few days as I work on a project requiring me to pretend to be a tourist in the Rocky Mountains. There will not be anything else posted on “project mini vacation”
It happens.
This session will explore learning space design principles as a way to enhance and transform teaching and learning with technology. The principles acknowledge changes in our understanding of student cognition and faculty roles in the learning process. Well-configured Learning spaces make it possible for faculty and students to engage in active learning, thereby enhancing learning outcomes.
— Philip Long (MIT) and Christopher Johnson (University of Arizone)
(Alan’s quips in italic.)
Sakai is delivering an integrated open-source framework comprising an enterprise portal, a course management system, and a tool portability profile as a standard for writing future tools that can extend this core set of educational applications. Learn what Sakai has achieved and its direction for the future.
http://www.sakaiproject.org/
My comments: If I recall, Sakai is based on the UM Chef project, and “Sakai” is the name of a cook “named ‘Iron Chef’ form some cooking show…. (?)
I came to see what all the Sakai buzz is about. So did the 150+ 250 others sitting on the ballroom floor for this session– no one realized this would be a popular session???. Again another presentation that is 90% word slides, background info– where is the beef? the demo? that’s what we want to see, we can read bullet points online. It is like a “meta-presentation” – it is information about a project, not the project itself. I am tired of reading soup can labels delivered in PowerPoint.
