Michael Korcuska Sakai Blog

This is not Sakai related, but I thought folks might enjoy it….
One of the things I’ve noticed about France is an increased emphasis on learning English. It is fast becoming the lingua franca of Europe–when Slovenians and Swedish and Spanish get together for a conference or business meeting, they speak English. And it seems that [...]

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In case you didn’t see it amid the rush of news coming out of Educause, rSmart recently issued a press release highlighting some of their recent Sakai customers (pilot and production users). These include the following organizations:

Antioch University
Apeejay Education Society (India)
California Northstate College of Pharmacy
Holmes Corporation
La Salle University
Performance Learning Systems
Shepherd University
TAFE New South Wales [...]

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All I can really say is “Wow, what a great conference”. It’s Wednesday morning and I’m watching Aileen Y Huang-Saad, winner of the 2008 Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award, give a presentation on her use of Sakai in the classroom. It’s great so far and I’m sure, after watching her presentation in Paris, that it [...]

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We’ve been hearing about a lot more Sakai activity in South America. Emblamatic of this, I’ve been in conversations with an educational services company in Brazil: People Brasil Educação Ltda. I’m happy to announce that they have decided to join the Sakai Foundation as a Commercial Affiliate.
People Brasil Educação Ltda. was founded in 1996 with [...]

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Sorry, but I’ve been unexpectedly off the grid for most of the week. I took vacation and joined my wife’s family on a visit to her grandfather’s home town–Sestri Levante, Italy.  The house we rented did not have internet access and I’m slowly working my way backwards through nearly a week’s worth of email.
I can’t [...]

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