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Benjamin Jörissen

Colleges Consider Using Blogs Instead of Blackboard - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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Blackboard Wordpress learning2.0

shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 26 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Instead of using a course-management system to distribute materials and run class discussions, why not use free blogging software
  • And true believers like Mr. Groom argue that by using blogs, professors can open their students' work to the public, not just to those in the class who have a login and password to a campus course-management system.
  • Open-source blog software, supporters say, also gives professors more ability to customize their online classrooms than most commercial course-management software does.
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  • "It looks like a real Web site," she said, noting that the course blog has a look and feel similar to those of other blogs. "For students to have a sense that they're doing something 'for real' is very powerful."
  • "I think the model for the CMS is outdated given the new Web, and I think that's one of the problems," he said. "It can serve certain functions well, but it's hard for proprietary CMS's, whatever they are, to keep up with the how the Web is changing."
James OReilly

IBM Virtual Worlds 1Q 2008 roundup - 0 views

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collaborative ibm virtual web2.0 workplace worlds

shared by James OReilly on 29 Apr 08 - Cached
  • James OReilly on 29 Apr 08
     
    Mike Rhodin, General Manager of IBM Lotus software, recently made five predictions about the future of collaborative working. They included open standards, increase in IM and other real-time tools.
James OReilly

Helping Google help the world | Technology - 0 views

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shared by James OReilly on 16 Sep 08 - Cached
  • It is leveraging like in translation memory, except the productivity factor lies a hundred times higher.
  • It can be free because the accumulated data - the live translations - are much more valuable than the software.
  • Google gives the localization industry a tremendous boost, first with its recognition that translation is really the key to growth and second with its appreciation for the tremendous value of good quality translations.
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  • The Translation Centre helps Google to reach out to non-professional translators (the ‘crowd'),
  • James OReilly on 16 Sep 08
     
    Helping Google help the world
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