ShadowBox Introductory Screencast
Made a screencast introduction to the WordPress ShadowBox theme I developed, see: [middmedia achapin achapin shadowbox-acs02.mp4]
View ArticleOnline Course Catalog Screencast
I’m working on a screencast explaining how to use Middlebury’s new online course catalog developed by Adam Franco and others in the web development group. [middmedia E966CA341E9D26A5EA67ECDE36E4C402...
View ArticleLMS Evaluations
As part of my work with the Curricular Technology Team, I’ve been reviewing learning management systems (LMS) for use at Middlebury. Currently we are reviewing Sakai, Moodle and Blackboard using an LMS...
View ArticleOpenScholar
OpenScholar is described as a “full-featured open-source web site-creation package designed for the academic community. It was developed at Harvard using Drupal. A common usage of the platform seems...
View ArticleCanvas LMS
Canvas is a new LMS that just went open source last week created by Instructure, Inc, a company “founded in 2008 with the purpose of disrupting the Learning Management System (LMS) market by setting a...
View ArticleCoursekit
Coursekit is another new LMS, this one developed by students at U. of Pennsylvania who found Blackboard to be “overloaded” and “badly designed” (see: Wired Campus > U. of Pennsylvania Students Build...
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