27.Feb.2010 Traffic. Get some.
I started Moodlemonthly.com late November 2009. I thought of it while I was running (there are many benefits to a solo jog). While working for GlobalClassroom.us I was collecting a vast repository of information (and tracking new information) on a daily basis. Unfortunately, a huge majority of topics, sources and subjects were unusable (after all, [...]
24.Feb.2010 Welcome to Straighterline.com
A few months ago (Sept 09, “All you can learn for 99 bucks a month”) I wrote about Straighterline.com after reading about them in the Washington Monthly. I was floored by the concept (floored=positive). It was everything I thought about higher education rolled up into a company. A working, growing business. On a whim, I [...]
23.Feb.2010 Quote – Chris Anderson
Now, working within a company often imposes higher transaction costs than running a project online. Why turn to the person who happens to be in the next cubicle when it’s just as easy to turn to an online community member from a global marketplace of talent? Companies are full of bureaucracy, procedures, and approval processes, [...]
16.Feb.2010 I’ll be saving my pennies all year for this
06.Feb.2010 More than meets the eye
My awesome wife found this: Pretty certain it’s from http://botropolis.com/.
28.Jan.2010 How Apple Effed up the iPad unveiling
Yeah, the iPad looks cool. It’s “new” and “cutting edge” and “beautiful”. But the product launch could have been better, and Steve, in all of his holiness dropped the ball. Here’s why: During the unveiling lots of sites ran live blogs and some (Huffington Post) even live streamed Job’s presentation to the masses (probably using [...]
Quote – Vt School IT Administrator
Found this in a old email string (which was forwarded to me): Contact Joseph. He’s the moodle Guru in the state. I am a guru.
31.Dec.2009 Stuck on OER (and somehow quotable)
One of the things on my bucket list is to be referred to (some day) as an expert. You know, like those quacks on FoxNews in the split screen with the green screened cityscapes behind them. For some reason that seems glamorous to me. Getting quoted by a reputable blogger/educator only helps me take the [...]
22.Dec.2009 Quote – Jonathan Rosenberg of Google
There are two components to our definition of open: open technology and open information. Open technology includes open source, meaning we release and actively support code that helps grow the Internet, and open standards, meaning we adhere to accepted standards and, if none exist, work to create standards that improve the entire Internet (and not [...]
17.Dec.2009 How insignificant are we really?
I can’t help but feel small after watching this video: [source: Gizmodo]
