Archive for August, 2006

Book Meme - A little 6am navel gazing

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Well... Doug Belshaw through my name on his list of people he would like to have answer 'the book meme.' It's now 6:08 here on the East Coast, and i thought i might do a little book history on myself. Funny, I had my students do this for themselves this ...

Comments, notes and a… ah… correction

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

I'll start with the correction. In returning to David Jakes' post from a few days ago I saw a comment from a reader of my blog saying that he thought I'd made an unfair representation of David's position. While i did say that i agreed that the patent office had ...

Blackboard patent - a reply to David Jakes (and jeff utecht)

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

I was wandering through blackboard stuff and came across this post from David Jakes. In it he declares that he uses blackboard, he likes it and that they also take him out to nice dinners (his disclosure, which i appreciate) There's a line of argument in it (and particularly in ...

The Edubloggypodlearnonlinosphere - Are we a ‘field’ and if so…

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

I've got my right foot on the front of oscar's rocking chair, in the dark, trying to coax an hour of sleep out of the little tyke. Things have been a little busy here in potato land, and i haven't gotten nearly all the things done that I would like ...

Blackboard patent - The sky, my friends, is falling.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

I read two not so cheery blog posts this morning that indicate that things are now actually starting to get seriously bad. Michael Feldstein is telling us about another patent pending for blackboard and i got this blog post dropped into a comment from my second post on blackboard. So, it ...

Are software patents evil? (an introduction by a man who MAY know what he’s talking about)

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

Is education as we know it going to be erased from the surface of the earth? Will the interwebs asplode into a flaming ball of knowledge slurry? Are we decending into the heart of an impenetrable darkness? well... probably not. And, i imagine, the medieval imagery is lost on many people. As i ...

Blackboard patent - community update.

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

well... The blackboard patent fun continues. The first email i sent to the company to invite them to our meeting this weekend bounced back at me. I'll continue to try and contact them. I was reading through 'an explanation of the CMS patent' on their website (notice the use of the ...

Education After Blackboard (blackweb) and DOPA - A Conference

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

well... In the span of a couple of weeks the educational landscape we've all come to know and care about has taken an awful beating. It seems that DOPA is taking away our open ed-web and blackweb is taking away our walled gardens. For DOPA discussions check out will richardson and ...