January, 2007

Marketing: Dirty Word?

Among programmers, marketing is a dirty word. Often, you will find us apologizing for even uttering it. I used to feel this way, too. I have changed my mind, having figured out that reality is subtler than I imagined.

In the programmer’s world view, marketing is synonymous with lying. Those of us in the software trade [...]

edu2.0

Jon Udell’s recent podcast is an interview with Graham Glass, the founder of edu 2.0 which is worth a look from all of us in the business of education.

Glass’s vision is that technology has reached the point that self-directed learners should be able to acquire online all the necessary resources for achieving primary and secondary [...]

2.3 Will Have to Wait

The Texas State team decided that our timeframe was too compressed to attempt a switch from Sakai 2.2.x to 2.3 at the outset of the Spring semester.

I admit it was a load off not to have to worry about stumbling over issues with a new version when the semester rush begins.

WordPress Powered

I’m in the process of setting up the latest and greatest version of WordPress to manage all the content on this site. It really is an amazing piece of software. I’m going to need to customize my template quite a bit.