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Thursday, May 05, 2005 |
Course Management: Ready for Prime
Time. Good look at the changing face of course
managements as this article examines cases at four
universities (running WebCT, Blackboard, Sakai and
Jenzabar) in order to suggest that campuses are scaling up
and investing in more complex, more functional, learning
systems. By Rebecca Sausner, University Business, May 5,
2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
3:05:38 PM  Google It!.
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Exploring Single Sign-on. This item lists several other single sign-on
initiatives, such as A-Select,
Lasso
and CAS.
All three require some sort of 'identity service provider'
(as Lasso calls it). It also mentions my own mIDm
proposal in passing, which does not require a third party.
Scott Wilson, meanwhile, has created a Zope
version of mIDm. Gerrit Visser of Smart
Mobs picks up the item, which is echoed in a
couple of places. Alan Cooper, meanwhile, took
issue with my argument against authentication
(badly treated by my comments system (for which I
apologise) he appears to have created a blog specifically
to comment on this - a blog I hope he continues, as his
point of view is clearly written and well argued). By
Various Authors, system :: Weblog, May 5, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
3:01:31 PM Google It!.
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mIDm - Self-Identification the World Wide
Web. Yesterday I wrote that authentication is not
needed and not desired - self-identification would do the
trick. Today I would like to explain how
a system of self-identification would work. Moreover, I
provide in this article some samples of working code and a
demonstration that prove that the sort
of system I am describing is possible. Even if you didn't
agree with yesterday's article (or missed it - I'm told I
didn't promote it enough), do read this one. Even if we
don't follow what I am writing here to the letter,
something like this is needed and (in my
view) inevitable. By Stephen Downes, Stephen's Web, May
4, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
10:24:32 AM Google It!.
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SMEX-D. As the Tim Bray reports:
"SMEX stands for Simple Message Exchange, and SMEX-D
for SMEX Descriptor, an XML language designed to provide
simple descriptions of a wide range of Web-Service message
exchanges, both REST-based and SOAP-based..."
Something to keep an eye on. By Tim Bray, May 3, 2005
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
10:06:30 AM Google It!.
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Judging a Book by Its Contents.
Amazon.com's Statistically Improbable Phrases aren't just a parlor game
that condenses a book to its very essence. They're also a way to move
curious readers through the retailer's vast catalog. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]
9:46:06 AM Google It!.
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I just heard about
a wireless digital cities conference that took place this week in
Philadelphia. It was a meeting for cities that are planning wifi
infrastructure. There were some Scripting News readers at the conf. [Scripting News]
9:40:11 AM Google It!.
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Paving the information footpaths (Jon Udell).
It's easy to criticize information systems that fail to embrace
sloppiness. It's much harder to explain how they should embrace it.
Sloppiness is only a means to an end. In order to make things work and
get things done, we need to codify patterns of use. It' a catch-22,
though. The right patterns don't emerge from systems that people won't
use. How we reconcile specification with emergence isn't an engineering
discipline, but it probably should be. [Edubloggers Links Feed]
9:38:45 AM Google It!.
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