Month: October 2007


  • links for 2007-10-25

    Administrative Committee on Distance Education (RACDE) – Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (tags: universitysystemofga) Rock Eagle Effigy Mound – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: archaeology georgia universitysystemofga)

  • I am blogging from the pre-conference GeorgiaVIEW meeting @ Rock Eagle yesterday afternoon and this morning. I enjoy connecting with people around the state of Georgia who use our Vista system. Most of them do not make it to BbWorld. Some hot topics: Alternatives to Blackboard Vista Training Content repository Returning Reports and Tracking to…

  • links for 2007-10-23

    Blackboard Developers Network – Blackboard WikiKB (tags: Blackboard_Vista) Why Tech Blogging is Broken (Geek News Central) (tags: blogs technology search seo) The once and future university « Jon Udell (tags: education learning university) Colleges and Universities – Education and Schools – Students – New York Times (tags: education learning university) Colleges and Universities – Education…

  • False Panacea

    I ran across Jon Udell’s post on The once and future university which pointed to Mike Caulfield’s post with the video (Transcript). Technology, I think, is a false Panacea. The role of information technology is to better aggregate information for whatever it is we do. Such aggregation draws disparate sources together, but the sources fail…

  • At the BbWorld Developers’ Conference (Thursday afternoon and Friday morning after BbWorld), there was a session by John Fontaine called What the Heck is a Hotfix? (PPT,audio recording). I’d been meaning to go look for this at the Bb Connections web site where the conference presentations were uploaded. However, I found this through a Bb…

  • links for 2007-10-21

    NPR : Steven Pinker Comes to the ‘F’ Word’s Defense (tags: Psychology language) Cognitive Daily: Casual Fridays: What charity gimmicks are most effective? (tags: charity)

  • Worst Kind of Easter Egg, originally uploaded by Ezra F.

  • Melungeon

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    Mom dropped me a note last night. She ran across the word melungeon while doing some genealogy research. It describes someone who is of European, African, and Native American descent. It was popular in the Appalachian Mountains and similar in use to Mulatto in being a negative term. I haven’t talked about this much on…

  • links for 2007-10-20

    Melungeon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: culture wikipedia history)