Rhode Island Sakai Conference (K-12)

On Tuesday and Wednesday I participated in the Rhode Island Sakai Conference in Newport, RI. The conference has a K-12 focus and is, as far as I know, the first K-12 Sakai conference. The conference was organized by RINET, the Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology.
Rhode Island is doing incredibly important work with portfolios. The [...]

University of Delaware Adopts Sakai

I’m very pleased to announce that the University of Delaware has officially announced that they will be moving from WebCT to Sakai! The University of Delaware has been contributing to Sakai for a number of years. I’m personally thankful to Carl Jacobson for administrating the voting procedures for the Sakai Board of Directors. And Janet [...]

LaSalle University in Barcelona (e-portfolios!)

The last day of my trip to Spain was spent in Barcelona (my favorite European city after Paris, although I haven’t visited that many cities in Europe and Valencia certainly made a strong case for itself as well). LaSalle is a private university (actually there are many LaSalle universities around the world but they [...]

NY/NJ Sakai Visits

Wow, what a week. I have a new appreciation of Chuck’s ability to stay as cheerful and energetic as he always seemed to be given the vagaries associated with getting from here to there. I visited Columbia, NYU, Rutgers, Wimba, Marist College, LaGuardia Community College and the Fluid Summit (too briefly, but still a separate [...]