Just posted the web version of our once per semester publication, the mcli Forum which our office has been publishing in print and paper since 1993 (before 2000 it was the Labyrinth-Forum). We have a mixture of faculty, guest, and our own staff authored articles that highlight teaching, learning, assessment, and technology efforts at Maricopa. […]
I told you I was serious. Steps have been taken to turn the tide on comment spam roaches. The MT-Blacklist can only go so far (and activity logs show it does squeeze out the regular v*agra repeat crowd). Image courtesy of the Orphanage of Cast-Off Mascots . Next in the arsenal are steps 1 and […]
Grrrrrrr, you’d think perhaps on freakin’ mother’s day, the spam roaches might be doing something, but they obviously have no birth mothers, hatched in the sewers form when they came. 6 blog spams related to a topic I will not even defile this dog house with, all sent to a single post in span of […]
Woah, I lifted a rock on post about the pachyderm project from last month, and 6 spam roaches came scurrrying out. It seems the thoughtful folks at Cykan*ax were so impressed with the educational possibilities of Pachyderm that they wanted to share their “fantasies”, “group activities”, and other things about beasts, though they seemed to […]
Nice…. “Blogs and RSS- Tools for Creating, Collecting, and Sharing Ideas Online” , presented as a WebQuest: “Learn about tools that will forever change the way you gather information online and separate the online publishing from the technical hurdles typically associated with running a web site” This has your basic components of a webquest, a […]
Joe Moxley, English faculty at the University of South Florida created Teaching Wiki, rolling with a good set of examples and specific ideas of how teachers and students might (and are) using wikis: Teaching Wiki aspires to be a community for college-level faculty. We imagine our primary audience to be faculty who are interested in […]
Spreading to a blog near you: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Okay, here goes. I have a copy of Clifford Stoll’s Silicon Snake Oil that I picked up for […]
Maybe people tire of blogging not because of lack of things to write about, but Interface Fatigue?? Back and forth from the MovableType editing screens, wating for those CGIs to pop, makes one s-l-e-e-p-y… Another stumbling along the blog roads came up with a link to a new desktop editor for MT bloggers- Zempt. I […]
And now for something completely irrelevant, but dear our heart (see our blog top tagline): Found at Red Ferret’s Dog Blog by way of Smartmobs. But what serendipity again. The Red Ferret Journal is rich with images and cool toys. Better furl it now. The Ferret is a weblog which looks at gadgets, software, web […]
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 a team of 1.5 developers and plenty of other projects lined up in addition), and mostly, nightmares of having to actively support software development, something I have no experience or great desire to take on.
So this will be a first, semi-informal outline of ideas for “openMLX”, a request/offer/plea for those interested to get involved (maybe a sanity check). We will be working on a first prototype from one of our test servers, and run a test MLX for another department in our area, and (paws crossed), some sort of announcement at the June 2004 New Media Consortium Summer Conference
So here goes a few items on the table…
