The Bodington System: Open Source VLE Issues

(An interesting post by Scott Leslie. I wasn't familiar with Bodington before this, but I'll find out more about it now. Following is an abbreviated quote from Scott's weblog.)

"Finally, a free lunch: The benefits of an open source VLE" - Report on Oxford's Use of Boddington.

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/vle/OpensourceVLE.doc

Worth a read, in part because of it's brevity, this report synopsizes Oxford University's experiences over the past 4 years in adopting the open source Bodington system.

[EdTechPost]

11:44:04 PM    

The argument over computer games and learning goes on ... and on ... and on ... .

Are Computer Games Rebooting Our Minds?: "...you have to sit on one side of the fence or the other...either games have no effect and we should rip them out of schools, or they have an effect and we really should think about it."

[elearnspace]

Good grief. Can people possibly learn as a result of playing a game? Of course. Can people learn as a result of playing any game? Of course not. If a game is designed to be an environment for learning, people can learn from it if it's a good design. If a game is designed to be an environment for entertainment, people will learn to play the game but not much else. If a game is designed to "teach" (i.e., to deliver canonical outcomes), nobody should expect far transfer from it.

Can we please move along now?

11:30:43 PM    

Moodle rises again.

Moodly Stuff. Since I am on the extreme margin of involvement of course management systems at Maricopa, I’ve not intensively followed the latest CMS stuff, but hear that Sakai is bubbling and there is even more spots of interest on the adoption of Moodle. Leon at Y.uk? emailed about 2 new Moodle articles on his blog, “Innovative Practitioners [...] [CogDogBlog]

6:27:24 PM    

If you are launching a new product you probably want to include on your Web site a movie about what it does. TechSmith's Camtasia is the one I hear most recommended and they are soon to release their third version, info on that here.

What's your favorite screen capture program?

That reminds me to check into the BlogCast Repository, which is where there's a bunch of screen-captured technical videos. What's your favorite technical video captured with a tool like Camtasia?

6:26:54 PM    

Design Thinking.

Fast Company: Strategy by Design. Logistics systems, the Internet, organizations, and yes, even strategy -- all of these are tangible outcomes of design thinking. In fact, many people in many organizations are engaged in design thinking without being aware of it. The result is that we don't focus very much on making it better. [Tomalak's Realm]

6:26:28 PM