Archive for April, 2003

I just published the latest version of CAREO to the Faculty of Medicine's server. It's got some custom stuff in it to help them integrate into their SunOne environment, and a new theme that looks just like the rest of their portal. Seems to work great! »

King Huang, another Learning Commons employee, who has been gracious enough to volunteer to contribute to the CAREO project in his spare time (i.e., when he's not actively doing OTHER projects around here - he's our resident Jack of All Trades). He has been working like a crazed madman, pumping out his interpretation of... »

This came from Internet Time. The Longer Term Future for eLearning About fifty of us participated in the April meeting of eLearning Forum this morning. Forty people met F2F in a classroom at the HP Nonstop Learning Center; eight to ten people joined us remotely via HP Virtual Classroom, a... »

It seems like a minor thing, but the functionality it provides is quite important. Until now, the “Add Object” form in CAREO assumed the media was already web-accessible somewhere. If it wasn’t, you were expected to get it onto the web somehow (FTP to your own server, iDisk, whatever…). I just added a feature... »

Just came across this post (via CodeIntensity) containing tongue-in-cheek definitions of a developer and programmer: Programmer: A biological machine designed to convert caffeine into code. Developer: A person who develops working systems by writing and using software. That's actually a really good distinction. »

I just added an RSS 2.0 feed to this weblog. If you're a purist, or just want the extra Dublin Core-y goodness that it provides, it's located here (and in the sidebar). Instructions, and RSS 2.0 template, were found here. »

This was brought to my attention by Scott Leslie (thanks, Scott!). Ryan Eby has an interesting post about the differences between Trackback and Pingback, and how they might be used in the context of learning object repositories. Ryan is commenting on a post by Phil Ringnalda. From Ryan's post: For example, if I find a learning... »

We're working with our Faculty of Medicine to help them in their Curriculum Information System project. It's a cool way for them to track their enormous and dynamic (i.e., changing) curriculum, as well as the resources that support it. CAREO is being used as a content management component for the MedCIS project. Their portal is... »

I took some time to clean up the Object Summary Page in CAREO. I was only addressing functionality. It should be a little more useful now, since I dropped the redundant “Summary” and “Details” section, and merged them into a single, real “Summary”. I also added a “Discussions” tab, so you can easily see what’s... »

There is some debate over the behaviour of the RSS <link> element. Should it point to the metadata for the learning object? Should it point to a "more info" page in the host repository? As an example, would you rather have the link for a a learning object point to this location, or this... »