I’ve been wanting to provide an easy way to demonstrate some of the features of Sakai 3 and, of course, a screencast is the obvious answer these days. My first Sakai 3 screencast features some of the Content Authoring capabilities that have been discussed. You can see the screencast on the new Sakai 3 [...]
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If you’re a regular reader of this blog then you know we are planning a Sakai Foundation board retreat in February. To help collect input from the community we’ve developed both individual and organizational surveys. These surveys focus on the types of contributions folks are making to Sakai and how we can improve both the [...]
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Just a quick reminder that the application deadline for the Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award is February 27, 2009 (midnight GMT, in case you’re planning a last minute submission). Winners will be awarded a trip to Boston, Massachusetts, to present at the 10th Sakai Conference and receive their award during the conference. Entries will also [...]
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A nice mention of Sakai in an article in University Business. Michael King, vice president of IBM Education Industry, wrote the article.
Here’s a brief excerpt:
….the education industry must offer (1) more open access to education for more students, regardless of their institution, the region they live in, or any other factor; (2) more open data [...]
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If you haven’t seen them yet, the Sakai website has a nice set of case studies highlighting schools using Sakai. These mostly highlight individual organizations that have adopted Sakai, although there is also a terrific piece on the Open Source Portfolio (OSP) as well. rSmart produced most of these, including a couple on schools that [...]
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Well, thanks to the swift action of Mary Miles, I have a new mac as of this morning. Now the slow process of restoring from backup (thankfully very recent!) and the re-installation of some software. I chose not to reinstall my applications directory since it will result in multiple versions of a variety of applications [...]
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If you sent me an email in the last couple of weeks you may have gotten an auto-reply that my computer was in the shop for repairs. Well, I got it back on Tuesday night. All good.
Today I was scheduled to go to Amsterdam to work with Alan Berg on the forthcoming Sakai Book and [...]
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As you may have read on the Sakai mail lists, the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors and the Executive Director (me, who is not a board member) will be having a retreat on February 9th and 10th. The retreat is being hosted by Marist College (in Poughkeepsie, NY), home of Sakai Board member Josh Baron.
While [...]
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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.
