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2011

01-Jan-12

A bunch of stuff happened in 2011. I quit graduate school I traveled a bit: WordCamp Phoenix, API Workshop at MITH, Jamaica, NC barbecue roadtrip, THATCamp I co-taught a class about WordPress in the graphic design program at Queens College I proved myself the 76th best crossword solver in the universe I taught an intro [...]

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Dude, Where’s My Blackboard Contract?

21-Sep-11

[UPDATE: 9-23-2011 9:54EDT] The original links to vendor searches on Open Book seem to be working again. I guess that means that the issue was a poorly-timed technical outage. In light of this, I take back my tentative speculations about Open Book actively suppressing results – I was wrong. Leaving this blog post up for [...]

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I develop free software because of CUNY and Blackboard

19-Sep-11

For two reasons, Blackboard is the key to why I develop free software. The first reason is historical. I first got into free software development because of my work with the CUNY Academic Commons project. As spearheaded by Matt Gold, George Otte and others, the Commons is intended to create a space, using free software [...]

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Blog-specific email plugin for WPMU users

21-Jan-10

A quick WPMU hack that I think will help a lot of people using an installation of WPMU for multiple classes. The plugin Email Users by Vincent Prat allows blog authors/admins to email users in two different ways: 1) by emailing a group of users (such as those corresponding a particular role on your blog), [...]

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Blackboard hack: Merging classes from multiple pages

27-Aug-09

Blackboard has a feature called Course Merge that lets instructors teaching more than one section of a course merge the sections into a single roster and course space. It turns out, though, that in Blackboard 8, if a professor has more than 25 or so courses alive in the system (which can easily happen when [...]

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Parsing the box

30-Mar-09

My friend Matt blogged this morning about how the concept of the Learning Management System is misguided. I agree with the gist of what he says there, but there are some ways in which I think that the anti-LMS rhetoric can be easily overgeneralized. The metaphor of the LMS as a “box” is telling: quite [...]

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Nudging faculty toward paperlessness

23-Jan-09

I was included on an email sent recently by the VP of our school’s student association regarding the newly implemented pay-to-print policy. The student association is not happy with the policy, and their reasons were good: it’s not so much that students want to print, but instead that their professors require them to print. The [...]

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