The NOSE points to today's news release from Sakai announcing that the Sakai Foundation has retained the Software Freedom Law Center to evaluate and "advise on legal matters" regarding the Blackboard patent. Indiana University runs Sakai (OnCourse) for my online Master's program, so I will have a bird's eye view as this plays out. The […]
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I downloaded a trial version of Camtasia and will be doing some side by side comparisons to the Windows Media Encoder. Clearly, Camtasia wins early points for ease of use in a bundled software package. The WM encoder simply captures the file and saves it in .wmv. Then, you have to figure out what to
Today, I am testing out the (free) Windows Media Encoder as a means of capturing video and audio on my computer screen (kind of a poor woman's Camtasia). Yes, it is Windows only. Overall, the learning curve to get WM encoder going was not too bad. For whatever reason, Microsoft is gearing the software solely
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YouTube was down for a bit today validating the number one reason why I won't put important "stuff" on free third party sides – better for just the "fun" stuff. Therefore, my YouTube video won't appear here for now.
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Well, I guess my problem with drupal earlier today was a stupid one … I put spaces in my file name and drupal gagged on it. So, I took out the spaces and away we go! My blog feed also works in iTunes, so I wonder why you need the audio module? Just a "fancier"
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It is day one of my "summer" break between the summer and fall terms at IU, so I'm going into full geek mode to try out both some old school and new school free podcasting tools. Today, I dusted off Audacity and created a quick little ditty. My plan was to come up with a
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Please take a minute and check out the site TheWorldIsNotFlat.com. I am enthralled by it because it is: Drupal based (with a tricked out design by Rain City Studios) created by believers in Social Design for the Web August and my first day of summer "vacation" inspiration for the travel and blog about it aspirations
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Just pointing to an interesting take on e-learning 2.0 from the Read / Write Web site. technorati tags:elearning Blogged with Flock
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According to a recent article in Business 2.0, e-mail use is dropping among teens in favor of real time IM and text messaging. In my courses at IU, we share a lot of information via e-mail, but we also have weekly discussions via IM. While we also use Breeze for the more "formal" classroom-like discussions,
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The buzz today is that Sony is ready to introduce the new $350 mylo (short for my life online), a wi-fi enabled "broadband communicator" that doesn't have a cell phone (hence, no cell carrier Internet access). While the lack of a phone avoids the relatively high monthly data plans from a cell carrier, it would
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