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Archive for “April, 2007”

Again with the Useful Stuff . . .

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Here is the more or less weekly collection of academically useful links.
Teaching Hacks has a useful post on tools for educators who want to use video for their classes. Links to ways to download YouTube videos, add subtitles, or convert files.
In the past week I think I have seen and least four reviews of [...]


Open Source Course Management

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

UCLA is apparently going to go open source for its course management system, choosing Moodle over Sakai.
And the ITS department has built a tool that will allow you to get contents out of Blackboard and make a free standing web site of it. It is called bfree and the ITS department has step by [...]


YouTube for Human Rights

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

I recently discovered The Click Heard Round the World, a blog about technology and politics. Rik seems to me to be really forward thinking it tackling a range of issues. Today his blog has a link to a interview he did with Deadline LA. Anyway this led me to witness.org. Think [...]