Hi Judy - the good thing about Blackboard occasionally being unreliable is
that people are more likely to be somewhat forgiving when (inevitably) one
of the new systems we are developing springs a problem. We can usually put
things right pretty quickly and only a few hundred users at most will
expe
Alejandro,
Like I haven't heard how our CS students easily hack whatever it is we're
using for our MS in Software Engineering online coursework... (wanna bet
it's Blackboard?!). They actually TELL ME these things. O_o
Judy
On Tue, 3 May 2011, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
By the way, after thi
Terry,
It's funny that you should mention Blackboard being awful. It really IS
gawdawful! I happened to be in my class early one day and several
students were trying to access my Moodle setup (on server space I rent
from Mark and paid him to install while I maintain) and they reported it
wa
Colin,
Moodle is gaining traction in education because it is FOSS, that is, free,
whereas Blackboard is hugely expensive and doesn't tend to play well with
any browser made outside of Redmond. Blackboard also has exhibited
predatory patent practices and successfully locked some similar Canadi
Alejandro,
That was Carly Born. I don't know if she follows this list, but if you
are interested, I can give her your email information and she can perhaps
follow-up with you. I prefer Moodle over Blackboard because it sucks for
free (okay, it doesn't suck overwhelmingly... really!)
Let me
Hi Colin,
on Tue May 3 21:41:17 CDT 2011
Colin Holgate wrote:
> Although I don't fully understand why, Moodle is huge in education,
> and you should get to grips with it no matter what.
> I can't find any proof of Larry being that involved in Moodle and Revlets.
> Can you point to anything?
>I thi
On 04/05/2011 01:02 PM, "Colin Holgate" wrote:
> My point was, that even though I don't fully understand it, anyone doing
> education courseware should be familiar with Moodle
Agreed.
Terry...
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Medical Education Unit
Melbourne Medical Sch
My point was, that even though I don't fully understand it, anyone doing
education courseware should be familiar with Moodle
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On 04/05/2011 12:41 PM, "Colin Holgate" wrote:
> Although I don't fully understand why, Moodle is huge in education, and you
> should get to grips with it no matter what.
It's big because the main alternatives (notably BlackBoard) are so awful
(and awfully expensive). I'm no big fan of Learning
On May 3, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
>
> I would like to experiment with this new setup, but do not want to
> learn the whole Moodle system to play...
Although I don't fully understand why, Moodle is huge in education, and you
should get to grips with it no matter what.
I can
Hi Judy,
on Mon, 2 May 2011 20:45:51 -0700 (PDT)
Judy Perry wrote:
> He is Larry Tesler.
Did Larry Tesler posted (in the Facebook Runrev in Education
page) about integrating revlets with Moodle? If not him, Who?
I am curious to know if this developer would allow other teachers to
experiment in
On May 2, 2011, at 11:45 PM, Judy Perry wrote:
>
> Sorry, my bad. He IS Larry Tesler.
I suspected as much.
For anyone who doesn't know who Larry is, he worked on Smalltalk, at Xerox
Parc, which led on to what Apple did later, and he was a lead person on the
Lisa team.
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Sorry, my bad. He IS Larry Tesler.
Judy
On Mon, 2 May 2011, Colin Holgate wrote:
Is he related to Larry Telser?
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On May 2, 2011, at 11:03 PM, Judy Perry wrote:
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> We had not one but TWO lovely little LC in Education presentations at the
> conference (the second of which featured Larry Lesler
Is he related to Larry Telser?
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Greetings, all!
We had not one but TWO lovely little LC in Education presentations at the
conference (the second of which featured Larry Lesler showing us something
he's working on, and which went on for two straight hours!) and, as a
means of keeping all the educators or those using
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