Social Networking

I’m not a user of social networking services. I’ve checked them out, sure, but I haven’t been interested in sharing my personal life online (just the opposite, in fact). This is fine because my friends, who are mostly the same vintage as me, don’t use them either. I felt a little behind the times at [...]

The Innovator’s Dilemma & Sakai

As I’ve started talking to people in the Sakai community (only a couple of dozen so far, but picking up speed) I’ve been interested to hear how often the Sakai CLE is being used, sometime exclusively, for purposes other than teaching and learning. Several schools are primarily making use of the collaboration features for [...]

Sakai Wikipedia Edits

Based on a suggestion from Alice Brainerd at Johns Hopkins, I decided to start editing the Sakai Wikipedia entry. As the new Executive Director this is a good exercise–I’m certainly not as practiced as Chuck is on describing Sakai in a few short paragraphs. Luckily, the entry was a bit out of date so, [...]