Comments on: A short explanation from a terminal smasher (or, Blackboard as an access control company)

By: You are your own VLE | Blog Nodos Ele

You are your own VLE | Blog Nodos Ele — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:58:00 +0000

[...] Personal Learning Environments nos ofrecen otras soluciones. ¿Qué ocurre cuando los profesores deciden ir más allá del LMS? These Web 2.0 tools they adopted encouraged them to share their stuff with the world, instead of [...]

By: Mike Caulfield » Blog Archive » Sakai, Blackboard, and the Bridge to Nowhere

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:55:00 +0000

[...] Blackboard as an access control company anyone? [...]

By: The Blunted Edge | Xyleme Learning Blog

The Blunted Edge | Xyleme Learning Blog — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:37:29 +0000

[...] It will be boring. It will get left behind, and richly deserve it. So to me, that means that this sort of argument (via): There’s a couple reasons why I find the term useful, but the most important is that it [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:35:00 +0000

Thanks, Scott. I appreciate it

Also, one of the great things about this meme-storm is that I’ve added so many blogs to my reader as a result of people coming here and commenting. Your blog is one of the great adds. So thanks for that, and keep posting!

By: Scott Leslie

Scott Leslie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:29:20 +0000

Very good. If people hadn’t been paying attention but suddenly started too, because of this meme, this post goes a fair distance to helping them along if they want to come. Not all the way, for that they gotta face the fear themselves, but good job.

By: Mike Caulfield » Blog Archive » Keene State’s AT Vision as a model of productive engagement

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:14:27 +0000

[...] Academic Tech was like email, accounting software, or a dining commons access system. [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:39:16 +0000

@Cole: absolutely on the permanence issue. This is a major thing we have to address. One of the things I’ve been wondering is if consortiums like the Open Courseware initiative might be able to help institutions with that…

In an ideal world I think we would be using Web 2.0 technology, but maybe syndicated from a central authoritative source — so materials would be uploaded to a store and sent out to YouTube, Wordpress, etc.

It gets complex quickly though.

In the short run, some good archiving habits could get us pretty far.

By: OpenFiction [ Blog ] » Punk’d

OpenFiction [ Blog ] » Punk’d — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:20:26 +0000

[...] really been enjoying the Edupunk buzz, especially this recent post by Mike Caulfield (read past Iggy). Edupunk, though, is going to be quite limited if it allows [...]

By: Frown Town Evasion » EDUPINIONS

Frown Town Evasion » EDUPINIONS — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:53:05 +0000

[...] (Incidentally, Mike Caulfield has–in one sentence, no less–come up with a terrific response to the dissenting faction: “The movement is primarly creative, not destructive. It just looks [...]

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:52:53 +0000

“Don’t stick a candle in turd and call it a cupcake.”

Not sure what this commenter was referring to on the Chronicle piece, Bb or EduPunk. Perhaps it was just a piece of practical advice. But I like the the whole DYI, punk-inspired vibe behind Jim Groom’s thang, despite my current wrath at Wordpress’s bug-infested 2.5 upgrade. I don’t know a damn thing about Bb, but based on what other people say about it I feel glad to not have to work with it.

I also didn’t know that Bb did dining hall management, video surveillance, and door access control. Is this Blackboard or Blackwater? Will they be handling these services at the new Cheshire County Jail in Marlborough?

Seriously, it sounds like something out of Kurt Vonnegut. You log in and become unstuck in time like Billy Pilgrim, and the next thing you know you’re getting a cavity search at the local lockup, courtesy of Blackboard.

Don’t think it can’t happen. One word: Vista.