Archive for the 'opensource' Category

MeaWebCT

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Ray Henderson, new president of Blackboard (Bb) learn, sent out an E-Mail/blog post to the WebCT/Bb community today that amounts to a bit of a mea culpa. As Brock University transitions from their WebCT CE 6 (Blackboard Learning System CE) Learning Management System (LMS) to Isaak, Brock University’s Sakai-Based LMS, it’s nice to see someone… Continue Reading MeaWebCT

Firefox firefox-mac-pdf where have you been all my life?

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Finally! Finally someone creates a Firefox plug-in that that takes advantage of the native PDFKit in OSX to display PDF files in Firefox. Everyone tolerates Adobe Reader on IE and Safari, but it doesn’t even work with Firefox on the Mac – leaving Mac Firefox users to chase down PDF files on their desktop every… Continue Reading Firefox firefox-mac-pdf where have you been all my life?

Interleave Just Got Better

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

.. thanks to me. I just wanted to toot my own horn and let everyone know that a modification I made to our local Centre for Teaching, Learning and Educational Technologies “Client Relationship Manager” (AKA any other set of words that match CRM) called INTERLEAVE will be incorporated into the next release. Interleave is a… Continue Reading Interleave Just Got Better