New Screencast: the Sakai App Builder Plugin for Eclipse
My new eleven-minute screencast is about how to use Aaron Zeckoski’s App Builder plugin for Eclipse to jumpstart your new Sakai tool projects.
It’s also a great learning tool, since you have a working tool in less than two minutes and you can start playing around with modifications.
As before, new videos are posted here: http://aeroplanesoftware.com/sakai-training-videos
Getting Started with Sakai: Setting Up Eclipse
I have just posted part two of my series of screencasts on how to get started developing for Sakai. This one is all about setting up the Eclipse IDE. Tasty!
Here is your link.
IMS Common Cartridge Alliance
I just signed up as a dues-paying member of the IMS Common Cartridge Alliance. IMS CC is a standard that has been evolving for several years, with the ultimate aim of creating a single format for publishers to create course materials that can be loaded into any learning management system.
I wrote the underpinnings of IMS [...]
Sakai As It Could Be
I just saw this, via Chris Coppola at rSmart.
For me, this is where the view of Sakai as a platform for innovation is really exciting. Sure the CLE is an eLearning application that can be used out of the box as easily as any of the proprietary systems like Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Angel, and [...]
Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant
Jim Groom has an excellent post about Sakai from the point of view of a savvy outsider.
It’s not exactly, um, positive, but I just have to post this because I think he hits the nail right on the head in terms of where we fall short.
More than anything else, however, I was extremely [...]
Sakai Featured at eLearn Magazine
The current top story at eLearn Magazine is about the proliferation, albeit slowly, of open source software in higher education. Laurie Rowell cites various studies that suggest Sakai and Moodle adoption are growing quickly, but that even so CIOs like to take their time and make sure they know which way the wind is blowing.
I [...]
Texas State: Faculty to Faculty Testimonials
When I was at Texas State and we were launching our migration from Blackboard to Sakai, one of the things we realized very early on is that our social and political challenges were far more important than our technical ones. Unfortunately there is a widespread tendency among instructional technologists to think that their job is [...]
Maven 2 is a Go
Just finished my first Sakai build with Maven 2. Thanks Ian! This is going to take some getting used to: I have run Maven 1.0.2 around 10 times a day for the past three years. I may compile some notes about how Maven 2 is different.
Holy Zeitgeist, Batman!
Lance’s post about OpenID was the first time I’d ever heard of it (I should be reading TechCrunch, but I haven’t developed the habit yet). Man, how word gets around! Now it seems like I can’t go anywhere without tripping over OpenID.
OpenID is one of those Internet Things that has to get big before it [...]
Flat Spin #1
I have a Wacom tablet now, so I figure I may as well do something with it.
In the spirit of this week’s discussion on the Sakai dev list, I give you the first installment of something I’m tentatively calling “Flat Spin.”