Patti and I are putting a wiki page together to support our ePortfolio session at Interface 2006 in Lethbridge this Thursday. The session is nominally about the ePortfolio pilot project we’re doing with our Faculty of Education, but I’m hoping we’ll get to have a discussion about ePortfolios (HATE that “e”) in general.
I just added some “What is a ePortfolio?” content, and it feels like it could turn into a thesis pretty darned quickly. Not sure I want to go down that road, though…
QOOP now allows orders for photo printing from Canadian addresses - meaning I can order stuff from Flickr, and have it printed as calendars, posters, books, T-shirts, etc… I just ordered a 13.5" x 19" poster containing all 757 photos I’ve published to Flickr (or at least as many that fit nicely on a poster - it couldn’t fit in all of them, so dropped about 20 photos from 2004).
I participated in a meeting on campus today that wound up dealing with politics more than anything else. I was having a really hard time trying to figure out why the problem being defined was worth such extreme polarization and strategy worthy of a Pentagon scenario, or at least an episode of Survivor. Actually, I still haven’t figured that part out, but will do my best to contribute to the group as appropriate. Oy.
I just promoted Photodoto.com to my coveted 5-star rating in Blogbridge. I’ve been subscribed to this great photography blog for awhile now, and it’s been consistently interesting and useful. It’s just starting out, but they’re putting some great stuff together as the community forms.
Another great photo blog I follow is Chris Garrett’s DSLRBlog. I also follow a whole bunch of Flickr feeds.
I was forwarded an email last night by someone asking where they could download a copy of CAREO to use as a national learning object repository (in a nice, tropical country south of here). I’ve been thinking about it since I checked email early this morning. There is no need for CAREO (or its ilk) anymore. Other solutions have evolved and surpassed what we came up with as a prototype Learning Object Repository.
Wow. Calgary didn’t even show up to game 7. No energy. No chemistry. They couldn’t keep the puck on a stick no matter what they did. What a shame, because they had played so well all season, only to crumble in the playoffs.
Here’s hoping the Oilers can keep the Stanley Cup in Alberta…
Well, not really an update. More like a ping to keep this from dropping off my back burner.
I’m just a little frustrated that I haven’t had a chance to do anything more than just whiteboard. Actually, I feel like I’ve done SFA about this, which is just wrong because I think EduGlu (or an evolution of MyGlu, or of AggRSSive, or of Drupal, or something else) is probably one of the Most Important Things That Need To Be Done™. I’m going to try to put some more thought into this (at the bare minimum) and possibly prototype something (likely wishful thinking at the moment).
I hadn’t visited an iTunes U site for awhile, so this may not be new. I just checked out the Berkeley iTunes U to see what they’re doing with it, and notice the shiny “Subscribe” button when viewing a topic. I don’t remember that being there before, when I was poking around in the Stanford iTunes U. Berkeley’s using it to let folks subscribe to audio on topics like Global Affairs, as well as individual courses. Hey! That’s podcasting! If only I knew of anyone that could use something like this…
I just realized that it’s been approximately 5 years since I started “blogging” - shortly after the untimely demise of The Company Who Shall Not Be Named (March, 2001), I started dabbling with weblog software. First, I played with a copy of a blog app that was included on my Dad’s MacAddict CD-ROM, then I played with Blosxom. The first year’s worth of posts were either intensely personal, or intensely boring (or both) and have long since evaporated into the ether. The oldest surviving post on this blog is just shy of 4 years old.
My various online bits are now living at Dreamhost. It took only a few minutes to install my stuff, copy over the files, and get up and running. It’s taken a bit longer to have DNS changes propagate, but I think that process is pretty much over now. Wordpress seems pretty happy there, and I’ve installed copies of Drupal, Mediawiki and Lace (the cool ajax chat app), as well as a Quicktime streaming server and Jabber server. The last two were autoinstalls, so I just flicked them on to see what they did. Actually, everything but Lace could have been automatically installed, with subdomains and databases created automatically, but I opted to do the manual install because I already have copies of the apps configured.
I’ve been trying to figure out a workable solution for a couple of months, and have come up with nothing more than some hacks and approximations of what is needed.
Here’s a use case:
User “A” (let’s call her “Amy”) writes a blog post. She wants it to be readable by her professor (let’s call her “Betty”) and one other student (let’s call her “Carmen”).
But, she doesn’t want the post to be readable by the rest of the class, by students in other classes, nor by the unwashed masses stumbling across a post via Google.
I just promoted 
