Session 4
Friday 3:15 - 5:00 pm
Session — NMC Five Minutes of Fame
Presenters - Various Presenters
This fast-paced session was a lot of fun, filled with useful tidbits, prize giveaways, and a gong. Fortunately for me, it was also webcast! Check out the stream at http://www.nmc.org/events/2003summerconf/fmof.shtml.
That’s all until tomorrow, the last day of the conference. Now I’m headed
out to find sushi in Blacksburg…
Archive for June, 2003
Session 3
Friday 1:30 - 2:45
Session — The Learning Record Online
Presenter — Margaret Syverson, University of Texas at Austin
Continue reading ‘NEW MEDIA CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE — Session 3′
Session 2
Friday 10:45 - noon
Session — Best Practices - eduSource Canada
Presenters — Mike Mattson, University of Calgary Continue reading ‘NEW MEDIA CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE — Session 2′
So why didn’t anybody tell me this…???
Tonight - for the first time - I clicked the Preferences link in Google.
Normally I tell people: click every button, just to see what happens. But not Google: I just see right through it, I am always so busy doing stuff with Google that I didn’t even think about my Google preferences. Continue reading ‘Click every button, search high and low… and in Klingon’
Session 1
Thursday 4:00 - 5:15
Session — Emerging Technologies Track - An Organic Learning Object Cycle: A Communication-Centric Model for Knowledge-Building Using Collaborative Tools
Presenters — Ulrich Rauch, University of British Columbia (ulrich.rauch@ubc.ca); Warren Scott (warren.scott@ubc.ca), University of British Columbia Continue reading ‘NEW MEDIA CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE — Session 1′
[EDITOR’S NOTE — This is the first in a series of conference blogs offered by Xplana. Many thanks to Sarah Lohnes for being our first intrepid reporter!]
Live from Virginia Tech…Greetings! I’m Sarah Lohnes, technologist at the Center for Educational
Technology at Middlebury College (VT) and [alterego] blogger. For the next
several days, I’ll be conference blogging from the New Media Consortium 2003 Summer Conference, which is being held this year at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. The New Media Consortium is “a very special group of people and institutions that share a vision about the potential of technology to transform human experience, and … that values collaboration and knowledge sharing.” Sessions are organized into four tracks: Tools and
Techniques; Best Practices, Challenges and Issues; and Emerging Technologies; and Technological Leadership and Management Effectiveness. You can find the full schedule here. Continue reading ‘NEW MEDIA CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE — Welcome’
“Build it and they will come!” This is possibly the most dreaded phrase in the world of project planning, product development, and marketing.
In developing or “emerging” economies, I have admired walls of canned fruit, processed just before the brand-new, latest-model western machinery stopped working — fried by power surges or paralyzed by a lack of spare parts. It’s sad to see expensive equipment reduced to the equivalent of a Duchamp sculpture or a Brutalist-inspired housing project in London. Continue reading ‘In Defense of Field of Dreams Technology’
Since Rob and I started a bit of back-and-forth re: his article on corporate mergers and their possible (…) blessings, I feel inclined to say a bit more about Microsoft Internet Explorer.
As more and more websites and applications become IE-dependent, the opportunities for people to experience other browsers begin to disappear. For example, the new Library website here at the University of Oklahoma is pretty much an IE-site. It works with Netscape 7, but that is really an accident - not anything the designers did on purpose. If compatibility problems emerge with Netscape, they would not hesitate to declare it an IE-only site (the employees at the Library are no longer allowed to have Netscape browsers on their machines at work). Likewise with Blackboard - it looks like we will need to tell incoming students with brand new Macintoshes in the fall that they cannot use Safari (Blackboard is not inclined to support it), but instead they will have to download and install IE for the Mac.
But what’s so great about IE? Here’s a hilarious email that Randy Hoyt, one of my students (and a Mozilla-fanatic), sent me last week: Continue reading ‘IE, or The 800-Pound Gorilla’
There was a time I was grateful enough for Word Perfect for DOS but it always felt awkward. Everything - from the commands to the impression that I was looking at the negative of a film - was far from my usual perception of a document and my familiar sequential rationality I was accustomed to. I can’t describe how thrilled I was when I found Ami Pro for windows 3.1. It ran fast and light and totally unaffected by the sluggishness of my computer. But above all, it delivered everything I wanted and more. I had a lot of fun discovering what it could do and customizing it to match my own perception of the world. It was working with me and for me and not the other way around. When Lotus released WordPro I was happy to go along. The usual worrisome feeling that accompanies big upgrades was totally absent. In its place there was faith and excitement. I knew it would be easy to learn and a delight to use, and I was right. Continue reading ‘Lotus SmartSuite, a smart productivity suite’
Oracle has made a formal bid to buy PeopleSoft and it’s a move that should come as no real surprise to anyone.
Oracle is the leading database software company in the world, but has struggled to make inroads into the enterprise application arena. It has applications but has found it difficult to persuade people to interest buyers. Everyone, it seems, insists on seeing Oracle as only a database company. The solution? Buy a leading application provider that already has considerable market share and can provide the credibility Oracle needs to enter the game. Continue reading ‘Integration by Way of Merger — The Model of Oracle and PeopleSoft’
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