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ShadowBox Introductory Screencast

Made a screencast introduction to the WordPress ShadowBox theme I developed, see: [middmedia achapin achapin shadowbox-acs02.mp4]

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Online 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...

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LMS 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...

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OpenScholar

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...

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Canvas 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...

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Coursekit

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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