The upcoming Sakai Conference in Paris will be the second year in a row in which a Sakai Community conference has been held in Europe. In part we’re trying to make it easier for the existing European and African Sakai community to attend the conference (which of course makes it harder for North Americans to [...]
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So two people sent me the same set of videos on the same day. I guess something is in the air and I thought I’d pass along the virus…
There’s a site called “BombayTV” that lets you put your own subtitles on top of Bollywood films. Randy Thorton, an instructional technologist at The University of Pugent [...]
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There was an excellent exchange recently on the Sakai Teaching & Learning email list (pedagogy@collab.sakaiproject.org) about how open Sakai is as a community. I’ve captured the original question and the main replies on a wiki page but thought I would highlight my own response in this space.
Here’s part of the original email that gives the [...]
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I spent Monday and Tuesday at the IMS Learning Impact conference in Austin Texas. I got to see a few folks who I often see at learning technology industry events. Folks like Chuck Severance, John Lewis (Unicon), John Blakely (Unicon), Michael Feldstein (Oracle), Linda Feng (Oracle), Mick Silvecko (IBM), Annie Chechitelli (Wimba) and even Bob [...]
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So I was talking to Steve Githens at a bar in St. Paul two weeks ago. He was showing me Sash running as a Sakai tool, which I have to admit I didn’t appreciate to the degree Steve expected. The conversation turned (I forget how, beer was involved) to the fact that I used to [...]
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As Dr. Chuck indicated in a comment to an earlier blog post of mine, the St. Paul Sakai Project Planning meetings were quite efficient and successful. A number of topics were discussed and I’ll provide a brief summary here. As usual, while we made some concrete proposals about how to move forward, no [...]
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I have so much to say about what went on in St. Paul at the JA-Sig Spring Conference that I hardly know where to begin. I’ll start with a meeting that some Sakai folks had with the folks from Bedework. If you don’t know about Bedework, it’s a higher education-based community source calendar project. It’s [...]
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Well it seems like a long time ago now but the JA-Sig Spring Conference was a big success from my perspective. This was pitched as a “Community Source” event and included participants from a variety of higher education open source projects including:
uPortal
CAS
Sakai
Internet2
Fedora Commons
dSpace
Kuali
Fluid
Bedework
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Sakai Courseware Management: The Official Guide is now available from Packt publishing. The publisher is paying a percentage of every book sold directly to the Sakai Foundation. And Alan and I are donating all royalties directly to the Sakai Foundation.
